Podcasts de Science and nature

Living with Oliver Sacks and love in later life: Bill Hayes and Sylvia Brownrigg – podcast

Living with Oliver Sacks and love in later life: Bill Hayes and Sylvia Brownrigg – podcast

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Why we need to rethink climate change, with Timothy Morton – books podcast

This week, we talk to philosopher Timothy Morton about his book Being Ecological and why we need...

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Steven Pinker defends the Enlightenment – books podcast

Is the world going to rack and ruin? The psychologist Steven Pinker makes the case for progress...

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Do our memories make us who we are? – books podcast

Wendy Mitchell talks about her memoir of early onset dementia and neuroscientist Jules Montague...

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Max Tegmark and Ken MacLeod on artificial intelligence – books podcast

How would it feel to be outperformed by a machine? We discuss the AI revolution with physicist...

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Time-travelling with Michael Brooks and Britt Wray – books podcast

We examine the ethics of de-extinction and the origins of quantum mechanics with two science...

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Hearing voices with Charles Fernyhough and Francesca Kay – books podcast

We tune in to the voices inside our heads with the psychologist Charles Fernyhough and the...

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Hearing voices with Charles Fernyhough and Francesca Kay – books podcast

We tune in to the voices inside our heads with the psychologist Charles Fernyhough and the...

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Simon Ingram and Fiona Reynolds on our natural landscapes – books podcast

Simon Ingram tackles the forbidding rock face of the mountaineering memoir, while Fiona Reynolds...

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The art of memory with Abby Smith Rumsey and Simon Bill – books podcast

We explore memory and forgetting with a fictional artist who struggles with recall and a cultural...

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Richard Dawkins and Carlo Rovelli on science and culture – books podcast

Two of the world’s foremost scientists discuss how to bridge the divide between the arts and...

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Daniel Dennett on consciousness and 100 years of Anthony Burgess – books podcast

The influential thinker talks about From Bacteria to Bach and Back, and we discuss the Clockwork...

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Ultimate questions with Adam Biles and Sean Carroll – books podcast

We examine beginnings and endings, with a novel set in a nursing home and a physicist who...

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Colin Thubron and John Aggleton on memory – books podcast

How can we construct a sense of self from the fragments of life we can recall? We dissect how...

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Searching for alien life with Jim Al-Khalili – books podcast

As 21st-century telescopes transform the hunt for extraterrestrials from SF to hard science,...

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Dogs / Who's a good boy?

The reason not to feed your puppy a samosa, the elephant that became an osteopath, more Eugenics...

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Hominids / What's your favourite question?

Getting our science from bonk-busters and techno, alternative theories for why Neanderthals went...

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Richard Dawkins: intellectual titan or tiresome self-publicist? – books podcast

John Crace boils Richard Dawkins's memoir, An Appetite for Wonder, down to just 600 words, while...

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Kim Stanley Robinson and Sheldon Solomon on exploration and death – books podcast

Can humanity escape extinction by reaching for the stars? We confront final questions with the...

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Ralph Steadman, Ceri Levy and poems about climate change – books podcast

We join Ralph Steadman in his studio as he teams up with Ceri Levy to put birds threatened with...

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