The Life Scientific Podcast
Professor Jim Al-Khalili talks to leading scientists about their life and work, finding out what inspires and motivates them and asking what their discoveries might do for us in the future
Episodes to download
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Matt Taylor on the Rosetta space mission
Tue 17 Mar 2015
Matt Taylor talks to Jim Al-Khalili about the Rosetta comet mission.
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John O'Keefe on memory
Tue 10 Mar 2015
2014 Nobel Prize-winner John O'Keefe talks to Jim Al-Khalili.
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Dave Goulson on bees
Tue 11 Nov 2014
Jim Al-Khalili talks to Prof Dave Goulson about his obsession with bees.
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Dame Sally Davies on public health
Tue 4 Nov 2014
Jim al-Khalili talks to Dame Sally Davies about looking after the nation's health.
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Richard Fortey on fossils
Tue 28 Oct 2014
Jim Al-Khalili meets Mr Trilobite, the palaeontologist and naturalist Richard Fortey.
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Margaret Boden on artificial intelligence
Tue 21 Oct 2014
Jim Al-Khalili talks to Maggie Boden, a world authority in the field of AI.
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Chris Toumazou on inventing medical devices
Tue 14 Oct 2014
Chris Toumazou talks to Jim Al-Khalili about the science of invention.
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Elspeth Garman on crystallography
Tue 7 Oct 2014
Jim Al-Khalili talks to Oxford crystallographer Elspeth Garman.
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Jackie Akhavan on explosives
Tue 30 Sep 2014
Jackie Akhavan talks about the ethical issues of working on explosives used in war.
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Brian Cox on quantum mechanics
Tue 23 Sep 2014
Brian Cox, physicist and media star, talks fame and quantum mechanics with Jim Al-Khalili.
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Carol Robinson on chemistry
Tue 22 Jul 2014
Carol Robinson on her journey from lab technician to professor of chemistry.
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Jeremy Farrar on fighting viruses
Tue 15 Jul 2014
Jim Al-Khalili in conversation with Dr Jeremy Farrar, director of the Wellcome Trust.
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Zoe Shipton on fracking
Tue 8 Jul 2014
Jim Al-Khalili discusses earthquakes and fracking for gas with geologist Zoe Shipton.
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Chris Llewellyn Smith on nuclear fusion
Tue 1 Jul 2014
Chris Llewellyn Smith on quarks, bosons and running the biggest experiments in history.
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Sandy Knapp
Tue 24 Jun 2014
Botanist Sandy Knapp talks about her adventures collecting plants in South America.
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Chris Lintott
Tue 17 Jun 2014
Chris Lintott tells Jim Al Khalili about crowd sourced astronomy and Galaxy Zoo.
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Janet Hemingway
Tue 10 Jun 2014
Janet Hemingway on malaria and the coming of insecticide resistance, with Jim Al-Khalili.
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Professor Sir Michael Rutter
Tue 3 Jun 2014
Jim Al-Khalili meets child psychiatrist Prof Sir Michael Rutter.
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Julia Slingo
Tue 8 Apr 2014
Jim Al-Khalili talks to Dame Julia Slingo, the chief scientist at the Met Office.
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Veronica van Heyningen
Tue 1 Apr 2014
Jim Al-Khalili talks to Veronica van Heyningen about the gene that builds the eye.
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Alf Adams
Tue 25 Mar 2014
Alf Adams remembers his small idea that changed the world, with Jim Al-Khalili.
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Anne Glover
Tue 18 Mar 2014
Anne Glover talks to Jim Al-Khalili about glow-in-the-dark bacteria and advising ministers
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Mark Miodownik
Tue 11 Mar 2014
Mark Miodownik talks nuclear weapons, 3D printers and smart materials with Jim Al-Khalili.
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Vikram Patel
Tue 4 Mar 2014
Jim Al-Khalili discusses global mental health with psychiatrist Prof Vikram Patel.
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Sue Black
Tue 25 Feb 2014
Jim Al-Khalili talks to forensic scientist Sue Black about identifying human bodies.
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Peter Higgs
Tue 18 Feb 2014
Peter Higgs opens up to Jim Al-Khalili about the real story of the Higgs boson.
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Jenny Graves
Tue 1 Oct 2013
Jim Al-Khalili talks kangaroos and the death of the Y chromosome with Prof Jenny Graves.
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Sophie Scott
Tue 24 Sep 2013
Jim Al-Khalili talks to neuroscientist Sophie Scott about the science of laughter.
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Ian Stewart
Tue 17 Sep 2013
Jim Al-Khalili discusses sci-fi and popularising maths with Prof Ian Stewart.
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