In Our Time Archive: Science

Melvyn Bragg examines the history of mankind’s attempt to understand the nature of time. With Neil F. Johnson and Lee Smolin.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the technological advances and ethics of modern medicine. With Sheila McLean and Barry Jackson.

Melvyn Bragg and guests explores the part genes play in our personalities. With Steve Jones and Matt Ridley.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the causes and our mechanisms of coping with pain. With Semir Zeki and Patrick Wall.

Melvyn Bragg explores the origins, manifestations and possibilities of intelligence with Ken Richardson and Michael Ruse.

Melvyn Bragg examines the history of what we know about the origins of the universe. With Martin Rees and Paul Davies.

Melvyn Bragg examines the importance of mathematics in relation to other sciences.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss whether we are near to achieving the thinking, feeling computer. With Igor Aleksander and John Searle.

Melvyn Bragg examines the future of gene therapy and advances in evolutionary biology, with Colin Tudge and John Maynard Smith.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the role of animals in humankind’s search for knowledge. With Colin Blakemore and Linda Birke.

Melvyn Bragg looks at how cyberspace has introduced a new concept of space in our world. With Margaret Wertheim and John Polkinghorne.

Melvyn Bragg examines the relevance of psychoanalysis at the end of the 20th century. With Adam Phillips and Juliet Mitchell.

Melvyn Bragg and guests look at the ethical, economic and biological implications of living longer. With Tom Kirkwood and Alan Walker.

Melvyn Bragg looks at the implications of the developments in genetic engineering, with Bryan Appleyard and Grahame Bulfield.

Melvyn Bragg and guests examine the little we know and what we don’t yet know about the brain. With Vilayanur Ramachandran and Susan Greenfield.