Interviews about History

Dr Andrew Smith tells us why primates have evolved the ability to see in three colours - and how this could have helped...

Jonathan Shanklin was part of the team from the British Antarctic Survey who first discovered the hole in the ozone...

Turi King talks about how she found African ancestry in Yorkshiremen, and about how your Y-chromosome type can predict...

The life of ancient Peruvian settlers as revealed by archaeological excavations

Colin Humphreys details his theories about what the star of Bethlehem really was and when it could have appeared.

Where do accents come from?

The Naked Scientists spoke to Chelsea Wald and Bob Hirshon from AAAS, the Science Society

The Naked Scientists spoke to Dr Lawrence Owens, Birkbeck College, University of London

The Naked Scientists spoke to Dr Harriet Allen, University of Cambridge

The Naked Scientists spoke to Dr Nick Brooks, University of East Anglia

The Naked Scientists spoke to Professor Clive Finlayson, Gibraltar Museum

The Naked Scientists spoke to Dr Mark Skousen, eighth generation descendent of Benjamin Franklin

The Naked Scientists spoke to Dr Simon Rainville from Laval University, Canada

The Naked Scientists spoke to Professor Jim Clark, George Washington University

The Naked Scientists spoke to Professor Monique Simmonds, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

The Naked Scientists spoke to Dr Tai-Ping Fan, University of Cambridge

The Naked Scientists spoke to Professor Peter Austin, School of Oriental and African Studies, London

The Naked Scientists spoke to Dr Uwe Bergmann, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, USA.

The Naked Scientists spoke to Dr David Norman, Director of the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, Cambridge...

The Naked Scientists spoke to Dr Tamsin O'Connell, Department of Archeology, Cambridge University

The Naked Scientists spoke to Nick Pope, Ministry of Defence