Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchShould the public wear face masks? Did SARS-Cov-2 escape from a laboratory in Wuhan?
Advice about whether the public should wear face masks, to protect against infection by the coronavirus, differs around the world. In Europe, policy…
5 years, 11 months ago
Testing for immunity to COVID-19 and Citizen science on BBC Radio past and present
This week, the Government’s target to be testing 100,000 a day for COVID-19 looks like it won’t be met. But we’ve heard about many people who experie…
5 years, 11 months ago
Understanding Covid-19 death rates; Contact tracing apps; Whale sharks and atomic bombs
Every death is a tragedy for grief-stricken families, but every set of statistics is an opportunity to understand the virus and the disease Covid-19 …
5 years, 11 months ago
Lockdown lessons for climate change and the carbon neutral Cumbrian coal mine
While the world is dealing with the coronavirus outbreak, those who are concerned about the environment are saying that an arguably bigger crisis is …
6 years ago
Testing for asymptomatic coronavirus carriers, Human Cell Atlas, and invasive parakeets
You can’t build up a picture of Covid-19’s spread throughout the UK without testing those who might have it and those who might have already had it. …
6 years ago
Coronavirus: Models & being ‘led by the science’; Mars500 isolation tips; Kids’ science - singing glasses
Marnie Chesterton reveals how important the models and graphs are in informing government strategies for the Covid-19 pandemic. Christl Donnelly, Pro…
6 years ago
Coronavirus - Lockdown efficacy; viral testing; surface survival; dog walking safety
Last week, we promised we’d tackle your coronavirus and associated Covid 19 questions and you came up trumps. So this week we’re be talking about the…
6 years ago
TB vaccination to replace culling in badgers; Neil Shubin on the wonders of evolution
The government have announced that the controversial cull of badgers across England will begin to be phased out in the next few years. It will be rep…
6 years, 1 month ago
Biology of the new coronavirus
Adam Rutherford explores what makes the new coronavirus so effective at making us ill. Jonathan Ball, Professor of Virology at Nottingham Universit…
6 years, 1 month ago
Banning lead shot for hunting; UK Fireball Network and Extremely thin gold
We have known for centuries about the toxic properties of lead, and we have known since at least 1876 that birds die of lead poisoning when they eat …
6 years, 1 month ago