How the environment has made us the way we are...
Interviews about History
Interviews on archaeology, anthropology, palaeoanthropology and the history of science...
Landing on the moon was an iconic moment in history. Our listeners share what it meant to them...
NASA had a decade to get it right but why was a "Moonshot" so important?
Carolin & Colm face Haydn & Ljiljana in our battle of the brains...
Jenner, cowpox, and the first vaccine.
Do the lumps and bumps on your head mean anything? Sophie Goggins busts the myths of Phrenology.
Where did the periodic table come from? And how does it work?
How the environment has made us the way we are...
What makes cracker jokes so awful?
Will we get to Mars? Plus the time travelling space telescope, James Webb.
How important is the International Space Station?
What did Voyager find? And how has this mission been turned into music?
A trip to the dentist a few hundred years ago was very different...
Do men favour men and women favour women when they peer review each other's work?
What's the point of investigating the Neolithic?
How did the Neolithic invent farming?
What would village life have been like 10 000 years ago?