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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?
Wheel Revolutions
Bridget Kendall and guests discuss the technology and art of wheeled transport.
Living at the Edge: Life in Extreme Environments
Extreme life and synthetic biology in the sea, on land and in space.
Taming Nature
What lies behind our desire to improve and perfect nature?
Grass Roots: The Impact and Influence of 'People's' Movements
Bridget Kendall and guests explores how 'people's' movements are changing.
The Element of Surprise
Bridget Kendall and guests explore the unexpected in art, science and everyday life.
Reawakening Language
How can we save or 'reawaken' dying languages?