Interviews with Scientists

Fergal Grace explains how a well timed and well controlled diet can provide the energy for endurance...

Nutritionists Matt Rabin and Mark Qod explain how our diets can not only give us the energy we need for endurance, but...

We meet sprint cyclist Tyler Farrar to find out how he puts the technology, nutrition, and fitness together to try and...

As well as mending broken bikes, the cyclists may need broken bones mended, which is when team medic, Shannon Sovndal,...

Cyclists on the Tour de France cover between 150 and 200 kilometres every day, for three weeks, with only two rest days...

Turning a farm into a city and then back again, is no easy feat. For the festival to run smoothly there must be...

The Glastonbury organisers pride themselves on doing as much possible to reduce their impact - not just on the farm...

Ben meets Mark and Lorraine - shipbuilders who used recycled plastics to produce the playship that dominates the...

Helen Heathfield explains how festivals compare with more traditional forms of entertainment when it comes to...

Will Luton explains why a festival is good place to get environmental issues across...

Melanie Tompkins explains Water Aid's role and presence at Glastonbury...

Ben Valsler chats with The Optimum Population Trust about their message at Glastonbury and for the wider world...

Michelle Osbourn from the Somerset Wildlife Trust explains how they're trying to tackle the loss of biodiversity...

Alex Gadsden tells us about his pedal-powered washing machine - how it works and what it can do.

Baba Brinkman on his own brand of hip-hop, and bringing science to the poetry and spoken word tent at Glastonbury.

Paloma Faith discusses why Glastonbury is so important for a performer and how the environmental message hits home.

Stand-up comedian Josie Long, performing in the cabaret tent, feels that politics and environmental messages have a...

Broadcaster and comedian Robin Ince incorporates a great deal of science into his comedy, quoting from Carl Sagan,...

A vaginal gel containing the anti-AIDS drug tenofovir halves transmission rates of HIV amongst women...

For this month's tech segment, Meera chats to Chris Vallance about the first ever Vintage Computer Festival held...

Why is nuclear waste such a problem? To find out more about how nuclear fission works, the waste it creates and the...

About 12,000 tonnes of radioactive waste is produced around the world every year and at the moment they need to be...

What limits the power of fusion reactors at the moment is how to make an exhaust system that can cope with the extreme...

On the 16th of July 1945, the project code name Trinity was put into action. Trinity was the first test of an atomic...