Interviews about History

As part of a trip to the Naked Cafe on Solana Beach, we met Hans Paar to discuss the birth of the universe...

Can the bodies buried at stonehenge reveal what happened there?

Find out the fate of the Nazca Line creators.

Analysis of DNA and early remains can reveal the hunting techniques of our ancestors.

We were joined by Professor Adrian Newland, president of the Royal College of Pathologists, who explained what the role...

In place of this week's Kitchen Science experiment, Ben attended a National Pathology Week event run by the Royal...

Our very own Kat Arney treats us to a sneak preview of the new album, 'In the City of Dreadful Night',...

This year's BA festival was held in Liverpool - the European City of Culture. Lord Robert Winston explains why a...

It's easy to dismiss bigfoot hunters as crackpots, inhabiting the 'lunatic fringe' of science - but,...

Carl Djerassi was one of the team behind the contraceptive pill developed in 1951, but now, he's critically...

Superheroes of Science is an experimental concept album, where each track is based on the life and work of a different...

What is imagination, and what's it for? We find out how imagination lets us learn from mistakes we've never...

We’ve seen the news stories in previous Olympic tournaments where athletes have been caught using performance enhancing...

How are sport officials cracking down on athletes using the wide range of drugs available to boost their performance,...

Most of us have heard the tales of ancient Greece and the majority of the time we just think of these tales as another...

Here's a question: The universe is a big place and if you only have a small number of telescopes with which to...

Is there really any science in Dr Who? What does Spiderman have to do with a gecko? And how are skateboarders...

The Cambridge Science Festival lasts just two weeks, with a lot of the action compressed into a very busy weekend, but...

The Ig Nobel prizes honour achievements that make people first laugh and then think. They celebrate the unusual,...

Is music just there for pleasure, or does it have a role to fulfil? We spoke to Dr Ian Cross...

Could we generate electricity from the energy we waste while walking? Professor Max Donelan has developed a way to...

One of the fantastic opportunities we had in South Africa was to visit the collection of fossils at Witwatersrand...