4 September 2024 – Conversations with Tyler, presented by Tyler Cowen
7 August 2024 – The Dissenter, presented by Ricardo Lopes
11 April 2024 – “What is Life?” A Conversation with Iain McGilchrist
Hosted by Marginalia Review of Books
7 April 2024 – “How Life Works”
A conversation hosted by Machine Learning Street Talk
4 April 2024 – “Biology as its own metaphor”
Led by the Science by Philip Ball.
Radio 4 Broadcast 2021
Ahead of a huge year for climate change policy that will culminate in COP 26 in Glasgow, Philip Ball explores how the fight against climate change can move beyond the political left/right agenda. The left has been labelled as the part of the political spectrum for policies that will reduce carbon emissions and the right as those arguing for business as usual. But Philip Ball shows that the picture is more complex than that.
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Led by the Science by Philip Ball.
Radio 4 Broadcast 2020
Throughout the Covid-19 pandemic the UK government has stated that its decisions have been “led by the science”. This pithy phrase implies there is a fixed body of knowledge from a consensus of scientists that provides a road map of what to do to stop the pandemic. But there isn’t. …
Two episodes by Philip Ball.
Radio 4 Broadcast 2017
The Medieval Bishop’s Big Bang Theory
The Man Who Found Physics in Shells, Seeds and Bees …
Four episodes by Philip Ball.
Radio 4 Broadcast 2017
The Day the Earth Stopped standing Still
The man who predicted deforestation and climate change 200 years ago
Mesmerism
Jumping Genes
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Radio 4 Broadcast June 2016 – Five episodes.
Presenter: Philip Ball
Producer: Max O’Brien
A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4.
Science writer and broadcaster Philip Ball sets out on a quest to explore the peculiar world of the invisible, a mysterious realm where magic and science meet.
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Two episodes by Philip Ball.
Radio 4 Broadcast 2016
Chaucer’s Astrolabe – The Medieval GPS
Maxwell’s Demon …
Three episodes by Philip Ball.
Radio 4 Broadcast 2016
Einstein’s Fridge
The Meteorite and the Hidden Hoax
Submarine for a Stuart King
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One episode by Philip Ball
Radio 4 Broadcast 01/07/2015
How Perkin brought purple to the people
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