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Animal Minds
Claudia Hammond and Tim Cockerill ask are we more like animals than we know?
Living with Animals
Claudia Hammond and Tim Cockerill look at how we live with animals
Contagious cities
How Hong Kong has been shaped by epidemics
How magic tricks reveal how we think
Why do humans like to be deceived? How magicians trick our brains and our perception.
Healthy buildings
What does Finland's Paimio Sanatorium tell us about design and health?
Science and Society
Traditional Healers and HIV
Can bringing together faith healers and medics help South Africa’s fight against HIV?
Transforming Bodies
The human body is evolving new senses like hearing colours with the help of technology
Building Better Healthcare
Building a healthcare system: who gets treated and who pays? Innovation maybe the key.
Civilisation on the Move
Why do people move, refugee health and how countries can meet migrant needs.
Air pollution: The silent killer
Air pollution causes millions of premature deaths globally, but what are the solutions?
Coronavirus Special
International experts take a global look at the science surrounding Covid-19.
Coronavirus: The Evidence
Taiwan, vaccines, Africa preparedness
International experts take a look at the science surrounding Covid-19
Young people, lifting lockdowns, USA and Kenya updates
Mental health and Covid-19
How is our mental health during the pandemic?
Covid 19: Ending lockdowns
When and how to end lockdowns?
Covid 19: Sub-Saharan Africa and testing
How sub-Saharan Africa is handling the pandemic and the different kinds of tests
Covid 19: Transmission and South America
How South America is handling the pandemic and a look at disease transmission.
Covid 19: vaccines and after lockdown
The latest on vaccines and how people are behaving after lockdown
Covid 19: recovery
The latest on how people are recovering from Covid 19
Covid lessons for safe school reopening
Will schools and colleges reopening fuel Covid-19 spread?
Are national lockdowns evidence of policy failure?
Locked in the lockdown cycle – evidence for a more targeted response
Pandemic rules: follower or flouter?
Why a sense of “we” rather than “I” makes us more likely to follow pandemic rules
Hopes and fears for Covid-19 vaccines
Vaccines could mean liberation for all, but will rich countries corner supplies?
The Shapeshifting Virus
Will new vaccines work against the more infectious versions of the coronavirus?
Keeping out Covid-19
The virus knows no borders, so do international travel restrictions work for Covid-19?
Mental health and the pandemic
Mental health distress has risen around the world. How can people's suffering be eased?
Sharing Vaccines – what’s gone wrong?
The ethics of putting children in rich countries ahead in the global vaccine queue
How Covid damages the human body
Covid the chameleon - the multiple ways this virus attacks our bodies
Whatever happened to…those Covid-19 stories
Claudia Hammond and panel study ideas that have disappeared
How will the pandemic end?
Keeping a lid on risks of new covid variants as vaccinated countries ease restrictions
02/10/2021 GMT
Claudia Hammond is joined by experts to answer questions about the coronavirus Covid-19.