Interviews about History

It's quiz time! Who will emerge victorious?

Archaeologists have detected milk in bottles from thousands of years ago...

Back with Elizabeth Bruton at the Science Museum in London…

One of the world's most famous codes, and how it was broken...

There's no gene for cuteness, but here's the next-best thing...

What's the future for flat-faced dogs?

A century and a half of dog breeding has left its mark...

Mendel's laws were also used to support less savoury ideas...

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...