Interviews about History

In 1900, everything changed...

Genius doesn't spring from thin air...

Peter and Nadia face off against Livia and Duncan...

How did we discover the electron?

Landing on the moon was an iconic moment in history. Our listeners share what it meant to them...

How did the Apollo 11 get home? Their return could've been a lot worse, as physicist Katie Mack reveals...

What happened during that giant leap?

NASA had a decade to get it right but why was a "Moonshot" so important?

Protein sequences from freshwater molluscs solves and archaeological riddle...

Carolin & Colm face Haydn & Ljiljana in our battle of the brains...

New eLife editor-in-chief Mike Eisen shares his vision of how science should be communicated

Jenner, cowpox, and the first vaccine.

Microbiologist Luke McNally brought a potent potion to the Edinburgh Science Festival...

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...

How important were scientific illustrations?

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?

Where does dancing come from?