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Hands
Do our hands mark us out as human? Bridget Kendall and guests discuss.
Modern Alchemy
Transforming waste into valuable products, with Bridget Kendall and guests.
Counterfeiting
Bridget Kendall asks why there are such lucrative markets in fake art and fake medicines.
Zooming Out
Bridget invites listeners to zoom out into space, to gain new perspectives on reality.
Hair, Fur and Cilia
Bridget Kendall and her guests explore the slender filaments that are essential to life.
Outcasts: The Forum at Risor Festival, Norway
What is it like to be on the edge of Europe? And do modern societies create new outcasts?
Solitude
When being alone is a blessing, and when it is a blight.
Democracy and the Arts in South Africa
What role can art play in the political discourse of post-apartheid South Africa?
Time to Rethink What Is 'Normal'?
Where is the dividing line between normal behaviour and a mental health problem?
Bubbles
The curious properties of bubbles in the oceans, in our bodies and in art.
Multilingualism
The advantages and disadvantages of speaking more than one language.
Challenges of Nanoscience
Transforming biosciences with particles just a few billionths of a metre across.
Aliens
Bridget Kendall and guests discuss alien plants and animals, alien beings and alien dreams
Natural Navigation
Spatial processing in the brain, bird migration and natural navigational clues for all.
Lines
How a spark of inspiration is transformed into a line on canvas or a line of verse.
Self-Assembly
Bridget Kendall and guests explore how cells, molecules and robots achieve complexity.
Adventures in 2D: Graphene and Beyond
What is the future of graphene and other two-dimensional materials?
Clay
The joys and perils of porcelain, kaolin and volcanic soils.
Resurrection
Should we bring the woolly mammoth back to life, and should ancient languages be revived?
Plasticity
Shape-shifting in everyday objects, our brains and plastic waste.
Imagination
The marvellous ability to create almost anything we want in our minds.
Shells
What shells can tell us about our past, present and future.
Upside Down
Bridget Kendall and guests discuss subversion and inversion in a topsy-turvy world.
Deja Vu
Is deja vu a brain glitch or misplaced 'real' memory? Bridget Kendall and guests discuss.
Worlds in Miniature
Bridget Kendall and guests explore why tiny things appeal to us.
Design and Beauty
How important is beauty in design? Bridget Kendall and guests discuss.
Core: A Journey to the Centre of the Things
A journey to the very centre of the earth, the universe and ourselves.
Being Cold
Bridget Kendall travels to Canada to find out how weather affects a nation's character.
The Power of Wind
Bridget Kendall and guests explore the impact of the wind on Earth, in space and in art.
The Hidden Power of Noise
Bridget Kendall and guests discuss why we should pay more attention to background noise.
Machine Translation: The End of the Human Translator?
Will new technology mean the end of the human translator?