Podcast Episodes

Unstoppable: Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Dr Julia Ravey and Dr Ella Hubber are both scientists, but it turns out there’s a lot they don’t know about the women that came before them. In Unstoppable, Julia and Ella tell each other the hidden,…

Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago

Unstoppable: Tu Youyou

Dr Julia Ravey and Dr Ella Hubber are both scientists, but it turns out there’s a lot they don’t know about the women that came before them. In Unstoppable, Julia and Ella tell each other the hidden,…

Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago

Unstoppable: Purnima Devi Barman

Dr Julia Ravey and Dr Ella Hubber are both scientists, but it turns out there’s a lot they don’t know about the women that came before them. In Unstoppable, Julia and Ella tell each other the hidden,…

Published on 5 months, 4 weeks ago

The Life Scientific - Anna Korre

As the famous frog once said, it's not easy being green. And when it comes to decarbonising industry, indeed, reducing emissions of all sorts, the task is a complex one.

Fossil fuels are used to manuf…

Published on 6 months, 1 week ago

The Life Scientific - Rosalie David

Rosalie David is a pioneer in the study of ancient Egypt. In the early 1970s, she launched a unique project to study Egyptian mummified bodies using the techniques of modern medicine. Back then, the …

Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago

The Life Scientific - Peter Stott

In the summer of 2003, Europe experienced its most intense heatwave on record - one that saw more than 70,000 people lose their lives. Experiencing the effects whilst on holiday in Tuscany, climate s…

Published on 6 months, 3 weeks ago

The Life Scientific - Ijeoma Uchegbu

Imagine a nanoparticle, less that a thousandth of the width of a human hair, that is so precise that it can carry a medicine to just where it’s needed in the body, improving the drug’s impact and red…

Published on 7 months ago

The Life Scientific - Darren Croft

Darren Croft studies one of the ocean’s most charismatic and spectacular animals – the killer whale. Orca are probably best known for their predatory behaviour: ganging up to catch hapless seals or a…

Published on 7 months, 1 week ago

The Life Scientific: Bill Gates

Bill Gates is one of the world's best-known billionaires - but after years at the corporate coalface building a software empire and a vast fortune, his priority now is giving that wealth away. And hi…

Published on 7 months, 2 weeks ago

Uncharted: A different kind of justice

A small, informal survey leads to shocking revelations about the US justice system, with its truths only uncovered decades later. Meanwhile, an ambitious portfolio manager discovers a perfect graph o…

Published on 7 months, 3 weeks ago