Interviews about History

Schoolchildren have spent much of the pandemic learning virtually. Here's how two kids find the situation...

Throughout recorded history, scientists have made themselves their own test subjects. How - and why?

Unravelling the story of how our ancestors made fabric

We look at a Czech Christmas tradition

Computers create music differently to humans. Here's one project using tech to perform for many lifetimes...

We asked legendary keyboardist Rick Wakeman whether Beethoven would have used a Moog...

A cornucopia of ancient tracks adds to evidence against the old, simple picture of human migration...

The largest movement of people in recorded history has had an enormous impact on our world today...

More people are on the move nowadays than ever before. A migration expert explains why...

How successful have open access policies been?

The main genetic risk factor for serious coronavirus infections comes from Neanderthals...

History's largest ever forced migration changed the world's genetic landscape. Here's how it was tracked...

Meet our featured guests this week: palaeoanthropologist Lee Berger, and journal editor Theo Bloom...

This gene cluster is linked to more severe COVID-19 infections, and perfectly matches Neanderthal DNA...

The unlikely coincidences in our history that led to all of us being here today...

Meet the winning discoveries: Hepatitis C, the gene editing technique CRISPR, and a supermassive black hole...

Mithridates the Great, king of Pontus, lived two thousand years ago - and pioneered the science of poisons...

Hearing about the new coronavirus, many were struck with déjà vu - because parts have happened before...

Analysis of the very first SARS-CoV-2 samples shows they already looked evolved to infect us...

When it comes to the origins of COVID, there are still lots of unknowns. But we can be sure of a sequel...

What's the world's largest organism? How did gin & tonic change the world? Stories from the living world...

From gold blood, to blue blood, to blood on the dance floor - here are some weird science stories...

Time for some extra credit 'material' from the Chemistry & Materials round...