Natural Navigation

Spatial processing in the brain, bird migration and natural navigational clues for all.

• 28 mins

Lines

How a spark of inspiration is transformed into a line on canvas or a line of verse.

• 28 mins

Self-Assembly

Bridget Kendall and guests explore how cells, molecules and robots achieve complexity.

• 28 mins

Adventures in 2D: Graphene and Beyond

What is the future of graphene and other two-dimensional materials?

• 28 mins

Clay

The joys and perils of porcelain, kaolin and volcanic soils.

• 28 mins

Resurrection

Should we bring the woolly mammoth back to life, and should ancient languages be revived?

• 28 mins

Plasticity

Shape-shifting in everyday objects, our brains and plastic waste.

• 28 mins

Imagination

The marvellous ability to create almost anything we want in our minds.

• 28 mins

Shells

What shells can tell us about our past, present and future.

• 28 mins

Upside Down

Bridget Kendall and guests discuss subversion and inversion in a topsy-turvy world.

• 28 mins

Deja Vu

Is deja vu a brain glitch or misplaced 'real' memory? Bridget Kendall and guests discuss.

• 28 mins

Worlds in Miniature

Bridget Kendall and guests explore why tiny things appeal to us.

• 28 mins

Design and Beauty

How important is beauty in design? Bridget Kendall and guests discuss.

• 28 mins

Core: A Journey to the Centre of the Things

A journey to the very centre of the earth, the universe and ourselves.

• 28 mins

Being Cold

Bridget Kendall travels to Canada to find out how weather affects a nation's character.

• 28 mins

The Power of Wind

Bridget Kendall and guests explore the impact of the wind on Earth, in space and in art.

• 28 mins

The Hidden Power of Noise

Bridget Kendall and guests discuss why we should pay more attention to background noise.

• 28 mins

Machine Translation: The End of the Human Translator?

Will new technology mean the end of the human translator?

• 28 mins

Wheel Revolutions

Bridget Kendall and guests discuss the technology and art of wheeled transport.

• 28 mins

Living at the Edge: Life in Extreme Environments

Extreme life and synthetic biology in the sea, on land and in space.

• 28 mins

Taming Nature

What lies behind our desire to improve and perfect nature?

• 28 mins

Grass Roots: The Impact and Influence of 'People's' Movements

Bridget Kendall and guests explores how 'people's' movements are changing.

• 28 mins

The Element of Surprise

Bridget Kendall and guests explore the unexpected in art, science and everyday life.

• 28 mins

Reawakening Language

How can we save or 'reawaken' dying languages?

• 28 mins

Balloons and How They Changed the World

The extraordinary impact of balloons on human society.

• 28 mins

The New Curators: Who Decides What's Culturally Important?

How the idea of curation has radically changed.

• 28 mins

Fire: How Climate Change Is Altering Our Attitudes to Wildfires

Bridget Kendall and guests explore ideas about how wildfires should be dealt with.

• 30 mins

Mata Hari: Dancer, Lover, Spy

What is the truth behind the legendary WWI spy-seductress?

• 28 mins

The Bittersweet Tale of Cocoa

Bridget Kendall and guests explore the origins of chocolate.

• 28 mins

Indian Princely States

Rajan Datar explores a lost world of culture and romance.

• 28 mins