The Life Scientific

The Life Scientific
Professor Jim Al-Khalili interviews scientists, technologists, mathematicians and engineers for The Life Scientific
Running time 30 minutes
Home station BBC Radio 4
Hosted by Jim Al-Khalili
Original release 11 October 2011 (2011-10-11) – present
No. of episodes 137
Website bbc.co.uk/programmes/b015sqc7
Podcast bbc.co.uk/programmes/b015sqc7/episodes/downloads

The Life Scientific is a BBC Radio 4 science programme, presented by Professor Jim Al-Khalili, in which each episode is dedicated to the biography and work of one living scientist.[1][2][3][4] The programme consists of an interview between Jim al-Khalili and the featured scientist. A variety of third parties contribute anecdotes about each programme's subject.[4]

The programme is broadcast on Tuesday mornings in the United Kingdom,[4] and is available online via iPlayer, as is an archive of past issues.[5]

The programme's BBC Programme Identifier (PID; a unique identifier) is b015sqc7.[1]

Guests

Guests have included:[6]

Name Date Speaking on... Programme page
Paul Nurse 11 October 2011 Biology, winning the Nobel prize and being President of the Royal Society [7]
Steven Pinker 18 October 2011 science writing and cognitive psychology [8]
Jocelyn Bell Burnell 25 October 2011 Astronomy [9]
Sir Michael Marmot 1 November 2011 how stress kills [10]


Colin Blakemore 8 November 2011 Neuroscience [11]
Molly Stevens 15 November 2011 growing human bones in a test tube [12]
Nicky Clayton 22 November 2011 the intelligence of birds [13]
John Sulston 29 November 2011 biology [14]
Uta Frith 6 December 2011 Changing how we view brain disorders [15]
Tim Hunt 13 December 2011 Molecular biology and winning the Nobel Prize [16]
Lord Robert Winston 20 December 2011 IVF, the House of Lords and scientists' ethical responsiility [17]
Colin Pillinger 27 December 2011 Life on Mars [18]
Robin Murray 7 February 2012 the cause of schizophrenia [19]
Chris Stringer 14 February 2012 paleoanthropology and who our ancestors were [20]
Tony Ryan 21 February 2012 the future of nanotechnology [21]
Iain Chalmers 28 February 2012 health services
Martin Rees 6 March 2012
John Lawton 13 March 2012
Tejinder Virdee 20 March 2012
Angela Gallop 27 March 2012
James Lovelock 8 May 2012 the Gaia hypothesis, microwave ovens
Frances Ashcroft 15 May 2012
Lloyd Peck 22 May 2012
Barbara Sahakian 29 May 2012
Bob May 5 June 2012
John Pickett 12 June 2012
Steve Jones 7 August 2012
Pat Wolseley 14 August 2012
Martin Siegert 21 August 2012
Dame Ann Dowling 28 August 2012
Richard Dawkins 4 September 2012
Andrea Sella 11 September 2012


David Nutt 18 September 2012
Sunetra Gupta 25 September 2012
Mark Walport 2 October 2012
Hugh Montgomery 9 October 2012
Monica Grady 16 October 2012
Jared Diamond 4 December 2012
John Gurdon 18 December 2012
Amoret Whitaker 8 January 2013 insects and their role in helping solve crimes
Prof Robert Mair 15 January 2013 tunnelling under Big Ben, Crossrail and engineering for the future
Annette Karmiloff-Smith 22 January 2013 should babies under two watch TV?
Noel Sharkey 29 January 2013 robotics and psychology
Valerie Beral 5 February 2013 breast cancer
Alan Watson 19 February 2013 his quest to discover the source of cosmic rays
Sue Ion 26 February 2013 working in the nuclear industry
Nancy Rothwell 7 May 2013 neuroscience
Sanjeev Gupta 14 May 2013 what links the English Channel to valleys on Mars?
Lord John Krebs 21 May 2013 birds, foot and mouth disease and badgers
Linda Partridge 28 May 2013 the science of longevity
Athene Donald 4 June 2013 the physics behind everyday stuff
Ewan Birney 11 June 2013 deciphering the human genome and junk DNA
David Spiegelhalter 18 June 2013 risk and uncertainty
Elizabeth Stokoe 25 June 2013 studying real-life conversations
Russell Foster 20 August 2013 circadian rhythms and jet lag
Joanna Haigh 27 August 2013 climate
Mark Lythgoe 3 September 2013 medical imaging and mountain climbing
Mike Benton 10 September 2013 digging up dinosaurs in remote places
Ian Stewart 17 September 2013 sci-fi and popularising maths
Sophie Scott 24 September 2013 the science of laughter
Jenny Graves 1 October 2013 kangaroos and the death of the Y chromosome
Wendy Hall 8 October 2013 the development of the web
Peter Higgs 18 February 2014 the real story of the Higgs boson
Sue Black 25 February 2014 identifying human bodies
Vikram Patel 4 March 2014 global mental health
Mark Miodownik 11 March 2014 nuclear weapons, 3D printers and smart materials
Anne Glover 18 March 2014 glow-in-the-dark bacteria and advising ministers
Alf Adams 25 March 2014 his small idea that changed the world (the strained-layer quantum-well laser)
Veronica van Heyningen 1 April 2014 the gene that builds the eye
Julia Slingo 8 April 2014 being chief scientist at the Met Office
Prof Sir Michael Rutter 3 June 2014 child psychiatry
Janet Hemingway 10 June 2014 malaria and the coming of insecticide resistance
Chris Lintott 17 June 2014 crowd sourced astronomy and Galaxy Zoo
Sandy Knapp 24 June 2014 her adventures collecting plants in South America
Chris Llewellyn Smith 1 July 2014 nuclear fusion
Zoe Shipton 8 July 2014 fracking
Jeremy Farrar 15 July 2014 fighting viruses
Carol Robinson 22 July 2014 chemistry
Brian Cox 23 September 2014 quantum mechanics
Jackie Akhavan 30 September 2014 explosives
Elspeth Garman 7 October 2014 crystallography
Chris Toumazou 14 October 2014 inventing medical devices
Margaret Boden 21 October 2014 artificial intelligence
Richard Fortey 28 October 2014 fossils
Dame Sally Davies 4 November 2014 public health
Dave Goulson 11 November 2014 bees
John O'Keefe 10 March 2015 memory
Matt Taylor 17 March 2015 the Rosetta space mission
Sarah-Jayne Blakemore 24 March 2015 teenage brains
Jane Francis 31 March 2015 Antarctica
Stephanie Shirley 7 April 2015 computer coding
Nigel Shadbolt 14 April 2015 the World Wide Web
Susan Jebb 21 April 2015 nutrition
Anil Seth 16 June 2015 consciousness
Kate Jones 23 June 2015 bats and biodiversity
Henry Marsh 30 June 2015 brain surgery
Dorothy Bishop 7 July 2015 language disorders
Carlos Frenk 14 July 2015 dark matter
Niamh Nic Daéid 21 July 2015 forensic science
E. O. Wilson 28 July 2015 ants and evolution
Geoff Palmer 4 August 2015 brewing
Dame Carol Black 6 October 2015 public health
Danielle George 13 October 2015 electronics
Robert Plomin 20 October 2015 the genetics of intelligence
Patrick Vallance 3 November 2015 pharmaceuticals
Kathy Willis 10 November 2015 botany
Paul Younger 17 November 2015 energy for the future
Peter Piot 9 February 2016 tackling ebola and HIV
Naomi Climer 16 February 2016 engineering
Dr Nick Lane 23 February 2016 the origin of life on earth
George Davey Smith 1 March 2016 health inequalities
Venki Ramakrishnan 8 March 2016 ribosomes
Helen Sharman 15 March 2016 being an astronaut
Carolyn Roberts 22 March 2016 flood control
Lawrence Krauss 31 May 2016 dark energy
Marcus du Sautoy 7 June 2016 mathematics
Sheila Rowan 14 June 2016 gravitational waves
Nick Davies 21 June 2016 cuckoos
Hazel Rymer 28 June 2016 volcanoes
Faraneh Vargha-Khadem 5 July 2016 memory
Georgina Mace 12 July 2016 threatened species
Trevor Cox 19 July 2016 sound
Ian Wilmut 4 October 2016 Dolly the sheep
Frans de Waal 11 October 2016 Chimpanzees
Lynne Boddy 15 November 2016 Fungi
Roger Penrose 22 November 2016 Black holes, quantum mechanics, consciousness
Julia Higgins 29 November 2016 Polymers
Richard Morris 6 December 2016 How we know where we are
Neil deGrasse Tyson 20 December 2016 Pluto
Michele Dougherty 10 January 2017 Saturn
Jan Zalasiewicz 17 January 2017 the Age of Man
Sadaf Farooqi 24 January 2017 What makes us fat
Alison Smith 31 January 2017 Algae
Sean Carroll 7 February 2017 how time and space began
Simon Wessely 14 February 2017 unexplained medical syndromes
Alan Winfield 21 February 2017 robot ethics
Alison Woollard 28 February 2017 what she has learnt from mutant worms
Daniel Dennett 4 April 2017 the evolution of the human brain
Nick Fraser 11 April 2017 Triassic reptiles
Liz Sockett 18 April 2017 friendly killer bacteria
Graham MacGregor 25 April 2017 Tackling the demons in our diet
Ann Clarke 2 May 2017 The Frozen Ark
Fay Dowker 9 May 2017 a new theory of space-time
Ottoline Leyser 16 May 2017 how plants decide what to do
Tim O'Brien 23 May 2017 transient stars and science and music festivals
Jennifer Doudna 19 September 2017 gene editing
Tracey Rogers 26 September 2017 leopard seals and Antarctica
Lucie Green 3 October 2017 the sun
Steve Cowley 10 October 2017 Nuclear Fusion
Tim Birkhead 17 October 2017 bird promiscuity
Ellen Stofan 24 October 2017 being NASA Chief Scientist
Sheena Cruickshank 5 Jun 2018 Immunology
Tamsin Mather 30 May 2017 Volcanology
Rachel Ann Mills 2018 Exploring the sea floor [22]
Frank Close 2018 Particle physics [23]
John Taylor (inventor) 2018 Being an inventor [24]
Cat Hobaiter 2018 Communication in apes [25]
Caroline Dean 2018 Genetic secrets of flowering [26]
Carlo Rovelli 2018 Why time is not what it seems [27]
Callum Roberts 2018 Marine conservation [28]
Steve Reicher 2018 Psychology of crowds [29]
Clare Grey 2018 Big battery challenge [30]
Ailie MacAdam 2018 Biggest construction project in Europe [31]
John Burn (geneticist) 2018 Genetics of cancer [32]
Wendy Barclay 2018 The flu virus [33]
Eugenia Cheng 2018 The mathematics of mathematics [34]
Adrian Thomas 5 June 2018 the mechanics of flight [35]

References

  1. 1 2 "The Life Scientific". BBC Online. Retrieved 24 January 2014.
  2. ↑ "Lord John Krebs on The Life Scientific, Radio 4". Future of Food. 2013-05-22. Retrieved 24 January 2014.
  3. ↑ Jones, Michael (2013-08-30). "Imperial in the news: The Life Scientific". Retrieved 24 January 2014.
  4. 1 2 3 Mahoney, Elisabeth (2011-10-11). "Radio head: The Life Scientific and One to One". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 January 2014.
  5. ↑ "The Life Scientific - Episode guide". BBC Online. Retrieved 24 January 2014.
  6. ↑ "Podcasts - The Life Scientific". BBC. 1970-01-01. Retrieved 2014-07-15.
  7. ↑ "Paul Nurse, The Life Scientific - BBC Radio 4". BBC.
  8. ↑ "Steven Pinker, The Life Scientific - BBC Radio 4". BBC.
  9. ↑ "Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, The Life Scientific - BBC Radio 4". BBC.
  10. ↑ "Sir Michael Marmot, The Life Scientific - BBC Radio 4". BBC.
  11. ↑ "Colin Blakemore, The Life Scientific - BBC Radio 4". BBC.
  12. ↑ "Molly Stevens, The Life Scientific - BBC Radio 4". BBC.
  13. ↑ "Nicky Clayton, The Life Scientific - BBC Radio 4". BBC.
  14. ↑ "John Sulston, The Life Scientific - BBC Radio 4". BBC.
  15. ↑ "Uta Frith, The Life Scientific - BBC Radio 4". BBC.
  16. ↑ "Tim Hunt, The Life Scientific - BBC Radio 4". BBC.
  17. ↑ "Lord Robert Winston, The Life Scientific - BBC Radio 4". BBC.
  18. ↑ "Colin Pillinger, The Life Scientific - BBC Radio 4". BBC.
  19. ↑ "Robin Murray, The Life Scientific - BBC Radio 4". BBC.
  20. ↑ "Chris Stringer, The Life Scientific - BBC Radio 4". BBC.
  21. ↑ "Tony Ryan, The Life Scientific - BBC Radio 4". BBC.
  22. ↑ "Rachel Mills exploring the sea floor, The Life Scientific - BBC Radio 4". BBC.
  23. ↑ "Frank Close and particle physics, The Life Scientific - BBC Radio 4". BBC.
  24. ↑ "John Taylor on being an inventor, The Life Scientific - BBC Radio 4". BBC.
  25. ↑ "Cat Hobaiter on communication in apes, The Life Scientific - BBC Radio 4". BBC.
  26. ↑ "Caroline Dean reveals the genetic secrets of flowering, The Life Scientific - BBC Radio 4". BBC.
  27. ↑ "Callum Roberts on the urgent need for marine conservation, The Life Scientific - BBC Radio 4". BBC.
  28. ↑ "Carlo Rovelli on why time is not what it seems, The Life Scientific - BBC Radio 4". BBC.
  29. ↑ "Stephen Reicher on the psychology of crowds, The Life Scientific - BBC Radio 4". BBC.
  30. ↑ "Clare Grey on the Big Battery Challenge, The Life Scientific - BBC Radio 4". BBC.
  31. ↑ "Ailie MacAdam on the biggest construction project in Europe., The Life Scientific - BBC Radio 4". BBC.
  32. ↑ "John Burn and the genetics of cancer, The Life Scientific - BBC Radio 4". BBC.
  33. ↑ "Wendy Barclay and the flu virus, The Life Scientific - BBC Radio 4". BBC.
  34. ↑ "Eugenia Cheng on the mathematics of mathematics, The Life Scientific - BBC Radio 4". BBC.
  35. ↑ "Adrian Thomas on the mechanics of flight, The Life Scientific - BBC Radio 4". BBC.


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