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The Forum Episodes

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    Balloons and How They Changed the World

    The extraordinary impact of balloons on human society.

  2. Reawakening Language

    How can we save or 'reawaken' dying languages?

  3. The Element of Surprise

    Bridget Kendall and guests explore the unexpected in art, science and everyday life.

  4. Grass Roots: The Impact and Influence of 'People's' Movements

    Bridget Kendall and guests explores how 'people's' movements are changing.

  5. Taming Nature

    What lies behind our desire to improve and perfect nature?

  6. Living at the Edge: Life in Extreme Environments

    Extreme life and synthetic biology in the sea, on land and in space.

  7. Wheel Revolutions

    Bridget Kendall and guests discuss the technology and art of wheeled transport.

  8. Machine Translation: The End of the Human Translator?

    Will new technology mean the end of the human translator?

  9. The Hidden Power of Noise

    Bridget Kendall and guests discuss why we should pay more attention to background noise.

  10. The Power of Wind

    Bridget Kendall and guests explore the impact of the wind on Earth, in space and in art.

  11. Being Cold

    Bridget Kendall travels to Canada to find out how weather affects a nation's character.

  12. Core: A Journey to the Centre of the Things

    A journey to the very centre of the earth, the universe and ourselves.

  13. Design and Beauty

    How important is beauty in design? Bridget Kendall and guests discuss.

  14. Worlds in Miniature

    Bridget Kendall and guests explore why tiny things appeal to us.

  15. Deja Vu

    Is deja vu a brain glitch or misplaced 'real' memory? Bridget Kendall and guests discuss.

  16. Upside Down

    Bridget Kendall and guests discuss subversion and inversion in a topsy-turvy world.

  17. Shells

    What shells can tell us about our past, present and future.

  18. Imagination

    The marvellous ability to create almost anything we want in our minds.

  19. Plasticity

    Shape-shifting in everyday objects, our brains and plastic waste.

  20. Resurrection

    Should we bring the woolly mammoth back to life, and should ancient languages be revived?

  21. Clay

    The joys and perils of porcelain, kaolin and volcanic soils.

  22. Adventures in 2D: Graphene and Beyond

    What is the future of graphene and other two-dimensional materials?

  23. Self-Assembly

    Bridget Kendall and guests explore how cells, molecules and robots achieve complexity.

  24. Lines

    How a spark of inspiration is transformed into a line on canvas or a line of verse.

  25. Natural Navigation

    Spatial processing in the brain, bird migration and natural navigational clues for all.

  26. Aliens

    Bridget Kendall and guests discuss alien plants and animals, alien beings and alien dreams

  27. Challenges of Nanoscience

    Transforming biosciences with particles just a few billionths of a metre across.

  28. Multilingualism

    The advantages and disadvantages of speaking more than one language.

  29. Bubbles

    The curious properties of bubbles in the oceans, in our bodies and in art.

  30. Time to Rethink What Is 'Normal'?

    Where is the dividing line between normal behaviour and a mental health problem?

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