The Life Scientific

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The Life Scientific
Running time30 minutes
Home station BBC Radio 4
Hosted by Jim Al-Khalili
Written byJim Al-Khalili
Original release11 October 2011 (2011-10-11)
No. of episodes281 (As of 28 March 2023)
Website The Life Scientific at BBC Online

The Life Scientific is a BBC Radio 4 science programme, presented by Jim Al-Khalili, in which each episode is dedicated to the biography and work of a living scientist. [1] [2] [3] [4] The programme consists of an interview between Al-Khalili and the featured scientist, with others contributing anecdotes. [4]

Contents

It is broadcast on Tuesday mornings in the UK, [4] and is available online and via BBC Sounds, as is an archive of past episodes. [5] There have been over 200 episodes since the first, an interview with Sir Paul Nurse 12 years ago. [6] In October 2021 the programme reached its 10-year anniversary with discussion between Ottoline Leyser, Paul Nurse, Christopher Jackson and Sue Black about what makes a scientist a scientist. [7]

Guests

Guests have included: [8]

NumberNameDateTopicProgramme page
1 Paul Nurse 11 October 2011Biology, winning the Nobel Prize and being President of the Royal Society [6]
2 Steven Pinker 18 October 2011Science writing and cognitive psychology [9]
3 Jocelyn Bell Burnell 25 October 2011Astrophyics and not winning the Nobel Prize [10]
4 Michael Marmot 1 November 2011How stress kills [11]
5 Colin Blakemore 8 November 2011Neuroscience [12]
6 Molly Stevens 15 November 2011Growing human bones in a test tube [13]
7 Nicola Clayton 22 November 2011The intelligence of birds [14]
8 John Sulston 29 November 2011Biology [15]
9 Uta Frith 6 December 2011Changing how we view brain disorders [16]
10 Tim Hunt 13 December 2011Molecular biology and winning the Nobel Prize [17]
11 Robert Winston 20 December 2011IVF, the House of Lords and scientists' ethical responsibility [18]
12 Colin Pillinger 27 December 2011Life on Mars [19]
13 Robin Murray 7 February 2012The cause of schizophrenia [20]
14 Chris Stringer 14 February 2012Paleoanthropology and who our ancestors were [21]
15 Tony Ryan 21 February 2012The future of nanotechnology [22]
16 Iain Chalmers 28 February 2012Health services [23]
17 Martin Rees 6 March 2012The multiverse [24]
18 John Lawton 13 March 2012Ecology [25]
19 Tejinder Virdee 20 March 2012The search for the Higgs boson [26]
20 Angela Gallop 27 March 2012Forensic science [27]
21 James Lovelock 8 May 2012The Gaia hypothesis, microwave ovens [28]
22 Frances Ashcroft 15 May 2012The link between blood sugar and insulin [29]
23 Lloyd Peck 22 May 2012Giant sea spiders [30]
24 Barbara Sahakian 29 May 2012Neurotransmitters [31]
25 Bob May 5 June 2012Public trust [32]
26 John Pickett 12 June 2012GM wheat [33]
27 Steve Jones 7 August 2012Snail studies [34]
28 Pat Wolseley 14 August 2012Her obsession with lichen [35]
29 Martin Siegert 21 August 2012Under the Antarctic ice [36]
30 Ann Dowling 28 August 2012Silent aircraft [37]
31 Richard Dawkins 4 September 2012Being a biologist and author [38]
32 Andrea Sella 11 September 2012Why my chemistry demonstrations are filling theatres [39]
33 David Nutt 18 September 2012Research into drugs and the brain [40]
34 Sunetra Gupta 25 September 2012Being a scientist and novelist [41]
35 Mark Walport 2 October 2012Being Government Chief Scientific Advisor [42]
36 Hugh Montgomery 9 October 2012The gene for fitness [43]
37 Monica Grady 16 October 2012Life on Mars [44]
38 Jared Diamond 4 December 2012Gall bladders, global history and the birds of Papua New Guinea [45]
39 John Gurdon 18 December 2012Cloning a frog decades before Dolly the Sheep [46]
40 Amoret Whitaker 8 January 2013Insects and their role in helping solve crimes [47]
41 Robert Mair 15 January 2013Tunnelling under Big Ben, Crossrail and engineering for the future [48]
42 Annette Karmiloff-Smith 22 January 2013Should babies under two watch TV? [49]
43 Noel Sharkey 29 January 2013Robotics and psychology [50]
44 Valerie Beral 5 February 2013Breast cancer [51]
45 Alan Watson 19 February 2013His quest to discover the source of cosmic rays [52]
46 Sue Ion 26 February 2013Working in the nuclear industry [53]
47 Nancy Rothwell 7 May 2013Neuroscience [54]
48 Sanjeev Gupta 14 May 2013What links the English Channel to valleys on Mars? [55]
49 John Krebs 21 May 2013Birds, foot and mouth disease and badgers [56]
50 Linda Partridge 28 May 2013The science of longevity [57]
51 Athene Donald 4 June 2013The physics behind everyday stuff [58]
52 Ewan Birney 11 June 2013Deciphering the human genome and junk DNA [59]
53 David Spiegelhalter 18 June 2013Risk and uncertainty [60]
54 Elizabeth Stokoe 25 June 2013Studying real-life conversations [61]
55 Russell Foster 20 August 2013Circadian rhythms and jet lag [62]
56 Joanna Haigh 27 August 2013Climate [63]
57 Mark Lythgoe 3 September 2013Medical imaging and mountain climbing [64]
58 Michael Benton 10 September 2013Digging up dinosaurs in remote places [65]
59 Ian Stewart 17 September 2013Sci-fi and popularising maths [66]
60 Sophie Scott 24 September 2013The science of laughter [67]
61 Jenny Graves 1 October 2013Kangaroos and the death of the Y chromosome [68]
62 Wendy Hall 8 October 2013The development of the web [69]
63 Peter Higgs 18 February 2014The real story of the Higgs boson [70]
64 Sue Black 25 February 2014Identifying human bodies [71]
65 Vikram Patel 4 March 2014Global mental health [72]
66 Mark Miodownik 11 March 2014Nuclear weapons, 3D printers and smart materials [73]
67 Anne Glover 18 March 2014Glow-in-the-dark bacteria and advising ministers [74]
68 Alf Adams 25 March 2014His small idea that changed the world (the strained-layer quantum-well laser) [75]
69 Veronica van Heyningen 1 April 2014The gene that builds the eye [76]
70 Julia Slingo 8 April 2014Being chief scientist at the Met Office [77]
71 Michael Rutter 3 June 2014Child psychiatry [78]
72 Janet Hemingway 10 June 2014Malaria and the coming of insecticide resistance [79]
73 Chris Lintott 17 June 2014Crowd sourced astronomy and Galaxy Zoo [80]
74 Sandra Knapp 24 June 2014Her adventures collecting plants in South America [81]
75 Christopher Llewellyn Smith 1 July 2014Nuclear fusion [82]
76 Zoe Shipton 8 July 2014Fracking [83]
77 Jeremy Farrar 15 July 2014Fighting viruses [84]
78 Carol Robinson 22 July 2014Chemistry [85]
79 Brian Cox 23 September 2014Quantum mechanics [86]
80 Jackie Akhavan 30 September 2014Explosives [87]
81 Elspeth Garman 7 October 2014Crystallography [88]
82 Chris Toumazou 14 October 2014Inventing medical devices [89]
83 Margaret Boden 21 October 2014Artificial intelligence [90]
84 Richard Fortey 28 October 2014Fossils [91]
85 Sally Davies 4 November 2014Public health [92]
86 Dave Goulson 11 November 2014Bees [93]
87 John O'Keefe 10 March 2015Memory [94]
88 Matt Taylor 17 March 2015The Rosetta space mission [95]
89 Sarah-Jayne Blakemore 24 March 2015Teenage brains [96]
90 Jane Francis 31 March 2015Antarctica [97]
91 Steve Shirley 7 April 2015Computer coding [98]
92 Nigel Shadbolt 14 April 2015The World Wide Web [99]
93 Susan Jebb 21 April 2015Nutrition [100]
94 Anil Seth 16 June 2015Consciousness [101]
95 Kate Jones 23 June 2015Bats and biodiversity [102]
96 Henry Marsh 30 June 2015Brain surgery [103]
97 Dorothy Bishop 7 July 2015Language disorders [104]
98 Carlos Frenk 14 July 2015Dark matter [105]
99 Niamh Nic Daéid 21 July 2015Forensic science [106]
100 E. O. Wilson 28 July 2015Ants and evolution [107]
101 Geoff Palmer 4 August 2015Brewing [108]
102 Carol Black 6 October 2015Public health [109]
103 Danielle George 13 October 2015Electronics [110]
104 Robert Plomin 20 October 2015The genetics of intelligence [111]
105 Patrick Vallance 3 November 2015Pharmaceuticals [112]
106 Kathy Willis 10 November 2015Botany [113]
107 Paul Younger 17 November 2015Energy for the future [114]
108 Peter Piot 9 February 2016Tackling ebola and HIV [115]
109 Naomi Climer 16 February 2016Engineering [116]
110 Nick Lane 23 February 2016The origin of life on earth [117]
111 George Davey Smith 1 March 2016Health inequalities [118]
112 Venki Ramakrishnan 8 March 2016Ribosomes [119]
113 Helen Sharman 15 March 2016Being an astronaut [120]
114 Carolyn Roberts 22 March 2016Flood control [121]
115 Lawrence Krauss 31 May 2016Dark energy [122]
116 Marcus du Sautoy 7 June 2016Mathematics [123]
117 Sheila Rowan 14 June 2016Gravitational waves [124]
118 Nick Davies 21 June 2016Cuckoos [125]
119 Hazel Rymer 28 June 2016Volcanoes [126]
120 Faraneh Vargha-Khadem 5 July 2016Memory [127]
121 Georgina Mace 12 July 2016Threatened species [128]
122 Trevor Cox 19 July 2016Sound [129]
123 Ian Wilmut 4 October 2016Dolly the Sheep [130]
124 Frans de Waal 11 October 2016Chimpanzees [131]
125 Lynne Boddy 15 November 2016Fungi [132]
126 Roger Penrose 22 November 2016Black holes, quantum mechanics, consciousness [133]
127 Julia Higgins 29 November 2016Polymers [134]
128 Richard Morris 6 December 2016How we know where we are [135]
129 Neil deGrasse Tyson 20 December 2016Pluto [136]
130 Michele Dougherty 10 January 2017Saturn [137]
131 Jan Zalasiewicz 17 January 2017The Age of Man [138]
132 Sadaf Farooqi 24 January 2017What makes us fat [139]
133 Alison Smith 31 January 2017Algae [140]
134 Sean Carroll 7 February 2017How time and space began [141]
135 Simon Wessely 14 February 2017Unexplained medical syndromes [142]
136 Alan Winfield 21 February 2017Robot ethics [143]
137 Alison Woollard 28 February 2017What she has learnt from mutant worms [144]
138 Daniel Dennett 4 April 2017The evolution of the human brain [145]
139 Nick Fraser 11 April 2017Triassic reptiles [146]
140 Liz Sockett 18 April 2017Friendly killer bacteria [147]
141 Graham MacGregor 25 April 2017Tackling the demons in our diet [148]
142 Ann Clarke 2 May 2017The Frozen Ark [149]
143 Fay Dowker 9 May 2017A new theory of space-time [150]
144 Ottoline Leyser 16 May 2017How plants decide what to do [151]
145 Tim O'Brien 23 May 2017Transient stars and science and music festivals [152]
146 Tamsin Mather 30 May 2017Volcanology [153]
147 Jennifer Doudna 19 September 2017Gene editing [154]
148 Tracey Rogers 26 September 2017Leopard seals and Antarctica [155]
149 Lucie Green 3 October 2017The Sun [156]
150 Steven Cowley 10 October 2017Nuclear Fusion [157]
151 Tim Birkhead 17 October 2017Bird promiscuity [158]
152 Ellen Stofan 24 October 2017Being NASA Chief Scientist [159]
153 Adrian Thomas 31 October 2017The mechanics of flight [160]
154 Eben Upton 16 January 2018Raspberry Pi [161]
155 Eugenia Cheng 23 January 2018The mathematics of mathematics [162]
156 Wendy Barclay 30 January 2018The flu virus [163]
157 Richard Henderson 13 February 2018The molecules of life [164]
158 John Burn 20 February 2018The genetics of cancer [165]
159 Ailie MacAdam 27 February 2018The biggest construction project in Europe [166]
160 Clare Grey 6 March 2018Big battery challenge [167]
161 Steve Reicher 13 March 2018Psychology of crowds [168]
162 Callum Roberts 1 May 2018Marine conservation [169]
163 Carlo Rovelli 8 May 2018Why time is not what it seems [170]
164 Caroline Dean 15 May 2018Genetic secrets of flowering [171]
165 Catherine Hobaiter 22 May 2018Communication in apes [172]
166 John Taylor 29 May 2018Being an inventor [173]
167 Sheena Cruickshank 5 June 2018The wonders of the human immune system [174]
168 Frank Close 12 June 2018Particle physics [175]
169 Rachel Mills 19 June 2018Exploring the sea floor [176]
170 Jacqueline McGlade 23 October 2018Monitoring the environment from space [177]
171 Noel Fitzpatrick 30 October 2018Becoming a supervet [178]
172 Suzanne O'Sullivan 6 November 2018Detective of the mind [179]
173 Michael Stratton 13 November 2018Cancer genes [180]
174 Caroline Hargrove 20 November 2018Formula One [181]
175 Alastair Hay 27 November 2018Banning chemical weapons [182]
176 Maggie Aderin-Pocock 4 December 2018Sky at Night presenter [183]
177 Clive Oppenheimer 11 December 2018Volcanic offerings of our angry earth [184]
178 Jim Al-Khalili 5 February 2019HIS life scientific: Interviewed by Adam Rutherford
[185]
179 Sue Black 12 February 2019Women in Technology [186]
180 Gregory Winter 19 February 2019 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry [187]
181 Gwen Adshead 26 February 2019The minds of violent offenders [188]
182 Donna Strickland 5 March 2019 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics [189]
183 Ken Gabriel 12 March 2019Why your Smartphone is Smart [190]
184 Corinne Le Quéré 19 March 2019Global carbon cycle [191]
185 Paul Davies 26 March 2019Origin of life and the evolution of cancer [192]
186 Irene Tracey 2 April 2019Pain in the brain [192]
187 Richard Peto 9 April 2019Why smoking kills but quitting saves lives [193]
188 Erica McAlister 16 April 2019The beauty of flies [194]
189 Richard Thompson 25 June 2019 Plastic pollution [195]
190 Ewine van Dishoeck 2 July 2019Cosmic chemistry [196]
191 Turi King 9 July 2019 Ancient DNA [197]
192 Katherine Joy 16 July 2019Lunar rock [198]
193 Robin Dunbar 23 July 2019Why we have friends [199]
194 Jonathan Ball 30 July 2019Arms race against viruses [200]
195 Richard Wiseman 1 October 2019Lying, luck and the paranormal [201]
196 Anne Magurran 8 October 2019How to measure biodiversity [202]
197 Martha Clokie 15 October 2019The viruses that could improve our health [203]
198 Adrian Owen 22 October 2019Scanning for awareness in the injured brain [204]
199 Saiful Islam 29 October 2019Materials to power the 21st century [205]
200 Demis Hassabis 5 November 2019 Artificial intelligence [206]
201 Elizabeth Fisher 12 November 2019Chromosomes in mice and men [207]
202 Patricia Wiltshire 7 January 2020How pollen can solve crimes [208]
203 Susannah Maidment 14 January 2020 Stegosaurs [209]
204 Peter Fonagy 28 January 2020A revolution in mental health care [210]
205 Peter Ratcliffe 4 February 20202019 Nobel Prize winner for Physiology or Medicine [211]
206 Polina Bayvel 11 February 2020Optical communications [212]
207 Myles Allen 18 February 2020Understanding climate change [213]
208 Anya Hurlbert 25 February 2020Seeing colour [214]
209 Matthew Cobb 3 March 2020How we detect smells [215]
210 Brian Greene 28 April 2020How the universe is made of string [216]
211 Jim McDonald 5 May 2020Power networks [217]
212 Debbie Pain 12 May 2020Conserving globally threatened bird species [218]
213 Frank Kelly 10 March 2021Air pollution [219]
214 Liz Seward 26 May 2020Space science [220]
215 Jane Goodall 2 June 2020Life with chimpanzees in the Gombe [221]
216 Emma Bunce 9 June 2020Space science - gas giants of the outer solar system [222]
217 Clifford Stott 16 June 2020Riot prevention [223]
218 Alice Roberts 4 August 2020Bones [224]
219 Andy Fabian 11 August 2020Black holes [225]
220 Dale Sanders 18 August 2020Feeding the world [226]
221 Heather Koldewey 25 August 2020Marine conservation [227]
222 Francesca Happé 1 September 2020Autism [228]
223 Steve Haake 8 September 2020Technology, sport and health [229]
224 Sarah Gilbert 15 September 2020Developing a vaccine for Covid-19 [230]
225 Neil Ferguson 22 September 2020Modelling Covid-19 [231]
226 Chris Jackson 12 January 2021Sustainable geology [232]
227 Catherine Noakes 19 January 2021Making buildings Covid-safe [233]
228 Giles Yeo 26 January 2021How our genes can make us fat [234]
229 Anne Johnson 2 February 2021The importance of public health [235]
230 Jane Hurst 16 February 2021The secret life of mice [236]
231 Richard Bentall 23 February 2021The causes of mental ill health [237]
232 Sarah Bridle 2 March 2021The carbon footprint of food [238]
233 Mark Spencer 9 March 2021How plants solve crimes [239]
234 Theresa Marteau 13 April 2021How to change behaviour [240]
235 Martin Sweeting 20 April 2021Microsatellites in space [241]
236 Jane Clarke 27 April 2021Protein Folding [242]
237 Peter Goadsby 4 May 2021Migraine [243]
238 Helen Scales 11 May 2021Marine conservation [244]
239 Nira Chamberlain 18 May 2021How mathematics can solve real-world problems [245]
240 Mike Tipton 25 May 2021How our bodies respond to extreme conditions [246]
241 Tamsin Edwards 1 June 2021Uncertainty in climate science [247]
242 Hannah Fry 7 September 2021The power and perils of big data [248]
243 David Eagleman 14 September 2021Why reality is an illusion [249]
244 Brenda Boardman 21 September 2021Making our homes energy efficient [250]
245 Derk-Jan Dijk 28 September 2021The importance of sleep [251]
246 Hannah Cloke 5 October 2021Predicting floods [252]
247 Jim Al-Khalili 12 October 2021The Life Scientific at 10: What makes a scientist? Talking with Ottoline Leyser, Paul Nurse, Christopher Jackson and Sue Black. [7]
248 Tim Spector 19 October 2021Personalised diets for long term health [253]
249 Tim Clutton-Brock 23 October 2021Meerkats, red deer and evolution [254]
250 Sharon Peacock 2 November 2021Hunting pandemic variants of concern [255]
251 Julia Shaw 22 February 2022Memories that aren't true [256]
252 Shankar Balasubramanian 1 March 2022Decoding DNA [257]
253 Stephen L. Brusatte 8 March 2022The fall of dinosaurs and the rise of mammals [258]
254 Ben Garrod 22 March 2022Conservation and extinction [259]
255 Chi Onwurah 24 May 2022Why engineering is a caring profession [260]
256 Pete Smith 31 May 2022Why soil matters [261]
257 Jacinta Tan 7 June 2022Anorexia nervosa and the mind [262]
258 Adam Hart 14 June 2022Ants, bees and insect burgers [263]
259 Vlatko Vedral 21 June 2022The universe as quantum information [264]
260 Martin Landray 28 June 2022Saving over a million lives [265]
261 Frances Arnold 6 September 2022From taxi driver to Nobel Prize [266]
262 Judith Bunbury 13 September 2022The shifting River Nile in the time of the Pharaohs [267]
263 Emily A. Holmes 20 September 2022How to treat trauma [268]
264 Daphne Koller 27 September 2022Can computers discover new medicines? [269]
265Tim Lamont4 October 2022The sounds of coral reefs [270]
266 Leon Barron 11 October 2022Why study sewage? [271]
267 Bambos Kyriacou 18 October 2022A passion for fruit flies [272]
268 Chris Elliott 10 January 2023Fighting food fraud [273]
269 Pamela Shaw 17 January 2023Research battle against motor neurone disease [274]
270 Rebecca Kilner 24 January 2023Beetle behaviours and evolution [275]
271 Clifford V. Johnson 31 January 2023Making sense of black holes and movie plots [276]
272 Adrian Smith 7 February 2023The power of Bayesian statistics [277]
273 Haley Gomez 21 February 2023Cosmic dust [278]
274 Danny Altmann 28 February 2023How T cells fight disease [279]
275 Julia King 7 March 2023Manipulating metals and decarbonising transport [280]
276 Marie Johnston 14 March 2023Health psychology and the power of behavioural shifts [281]
277 James A. Jackson 21 March 2023Understanding earthquakes and building resilience [282]
278 Julie Williams 28 March 2023Alzheimer's disease [283]
279 Andre Geim 23 May 2023Levitating frogs, graphene and 2D materials [284]
280 Gillian Reid 30 May 2023Making chemistry count [285]
281 Bruce Malamud 6 June 2023Modelling risk for natural hazards [286]
282 Anne-Marie Imafidon 13 June 2023Fighting for diversity and equality in science [287]
283 Deborah Greaves 8 August 2023Wave power and offshore renewable energy [288]
284 Gideon Henderson 16 August 2023Climate 'clocks' and dating ice ages [289]
285 Chris Barratt (scientist) 23 August 2023Head-banging sperm and a future male contraceptive pill [290]
286 Colin Humphreys 29 August 2023Electron microscopes, and the thinnest material in the world [291]
286 Bahija Jallal 5 September 2023Biotech revolution in cancer therapies [292]
287 Paul Murdin 12 September 2023The first ever identification of a black hole [293]
288 Alexandre Antonelli 19 September 2023Learning from nature's biodiversity to adapt to climate change [294]
289 Edward Witten 31 October 2023M-Theory, the leading contender for a 'theory of everything' [295]
290 Sarah Blaffer Hrdy 7 November 2023Human evolution and parenthood [296]
291 Sarah Harper 14 November 2023How population change is remodelling societies. [297]
292 Michael Berry 21 November 2023Phenomena in physics' borderlands [298]
293 Cathie Sudlow 28 November 2023Data in healthcare [299]
294 Harshad Bhadeshia 5 December 2023Choreography of metals [300]
295 Mercedes Maroto-Valer 12 December 2023Making carbon dioxide useful [301]
296 Michael Wooldridge 19 December 2023AI and sentient robots [302]
297 Jonathan Van-Tam 12 March 2024Covid communication and the power of football analogies [303]
298 Charles Godfray 19 March 2024Parasitic wasps and the race to feed nine billion people [304]
299 Sheila Willis 26 March 2024Using science to help solve crime [305]
300 Nick Longrich 2 April 2024Discovering new dinosaurs from overlooked bones [306]
301 Fiona Rayment 9 April 2024Applications of nuclear for net zero and beyond [307]
302 Hannah Critchlow 16 April 2024The connected brain [308]
303 Mike Edmunds 23 April 2024The chemical make-up of galaxies and decoding the Antikythera Mechanism [309]
304 Conny Aerts 24 June 2024Star vibrations and following your dreams [310]

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