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  • Created September 14, 2020
  • Modified May 6, 2025
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Name First Aired Runtime Image
S2020E01 Metal Mayhem - with Andrew Szydlo
January 2, 2020
83
S2020E02 The Mechanics of the Piano - Christmas Lectures with Charles Taylor
January 4, 2020
7
S2020E03 Pushing the Limits of Human Mobility - with Eline van der Kruk
January 9, 2020
43
S2020E04 Properties of Liquid Nitrogen - Christmas Lectures with EM Rogers
S2020E05 Why Have We Not Found Any Aliens? - with Keith Cooper
January 16, 2020
51
S2020E06 Water Rockets - Christmas Lectures with Eric M Rogers
January 18, 2020
1
S2020E07 Have the Boomers Pinched Their Children’s Futures? - with Lord David Willetts
January 23, 2020
47
S2020E08 How Helium Changes our Voice - Christmas Lectures with Eric M Rogers
S2020E09 What Are Pentaquarks and Why Are They So Rare?
January 29, 2020
5
S2020E10 The Issues We Face at the Nano Scale - with Sonia Contera
January 30, 2020
57
S2020E11 Offering A Plant A Radioactive Cocktail - Christmas Lectures with Eric M Rogers
S2020E12 Christmas Lectures 2019: How to Get Lucky - Hannah Fry
February 3, 2020
59
S2020E13 A Brief History of Quantum Mechanics - with Sean Carroll
February 6, 2020
56
S2020E14 How We Harness the Energy of a Chain Reaction - Christmas Lectures with Eric M Rogers
S2020E15 Christmas Lectures 2019: How to Bend the Rules - Hannah Fry
February 10, 2020
59
S2020E16 Are We Running Out of Precious Elements?
February 13, 2020
53
S2020E17 Tricks of Perspective - Christmas Lectures with Eric M Rogers
February 15, 2020
444
S2020E18 Christmas Lectures 2019: How Can We All Win? - Hannah Fry
February 17, 2020
59
S2020E19 What Happens Inside A Black Hole? - with Jerome Gauntlett
February 19, 2020
5
S2020E20 Can We Trust Maths? - with Kit Yates
February 20, 2020
55
S2020E21 Glow In The Dark Worm Genes - Christmas Lectures with Alison Woollard
February 22, 2020
3
S2020E22 Why Do Things Spin? - with Hugh Hunt
February 27, 2020
47
S2020E23 Acrobatic DNA Replication - Christmas Lectures with Alison Woollard
February 29, 2020
3
S2020E24 Can Psychedelics Induce Mystical Experiences? - with Michael Pollan
March 4, 2020
5
S2020E25 What Happened At The Beginning Of Time? - with Dan Hooper
March 5, 2020
51
S2020E26 Living Medicines - Christmas Lectures with Alison Woollard
March 7, 2020
2
S2020E27 Why Do We Like Being Scared? - with Brendan Walker
March 12, 2020
80
S2020E28 Liquid Nitrogen Fossilisation - Christmas Lectures with Simon Conway Morris
March 14, 2020
555
S2020E29 Can All The Universes Fit In The Multiverse? - with Sean Carroll
March 19, 2020
4
S2020E30 Bringing Dinosaurs Back To Life - Christmas Lectures with Simon Conway Morris
March 21, 2020
666
S2020E31 Rescuing The Hubble Space Telescope - with Kathryn D. Sullivan
March 26, 2020
44
S2020E32 Rewinding 65 Million Years - Christmas Lectures with Simon Conway Morris
March 28, 2020
666
S2020E33 What Happens After A Supernova Explodes? - with Jen Gupta
April 2, 2020
4
S2020E34 Becoming A Pterodactyl - Christmas Lectures with Simon Conway Morris
April 4, 2020
444
S2020E35 How Will Quantum Technology Change Our Lives?
April 9, 2020
46
S2020E36 The Recipe For Life - Christmas Lectures with Simon Conway Morris
April 11, 2020
333
S2020E37 What Is It Like To Have Synesthesia?
April 16, 2020
8
S2020E38 What Happens To Sunbeams On Their Journey To Earth - Christmas Lectures with George Porter
April 18, 2020
5
S2020E39 The World According to Physics - with Jim Al-Khalili
April 23, 2020
61
S2020E40 How Nylon Was Discovered - Christmas Lectures with George Porter
April 25, 2020
4
S2020E41 Why Do We Gain Fat? – with Eugenia Cheng
April 30, 2020
3
S2020E42 Projecting Sunlight Pictures Onto Plants - Christmas Lectures with George Porter
May 2, 2020
3
S2020E43 How Does Convection Work? - Christmas Lectures with George Porter
May 9, 2020
2
S2020E44 Could You Outrun a T-Rex? - with David Hone
May 14, 2020
5
S2020E45 Making Heat Engines - Christmas Lectures with George Porter
May 16, 2020
2
S2020E46 The Physics of Magnetic Monopoles - with Felix Flicker
May 20, 2020
53
S2020E47 Will Computers Ever Think Like Human Beings? - with Vint Cerf
May 21, 2020
58
S2020E48 Can We Make Fuel Out Of Sunlight? - Christmas Lectures with George Porter
May 23, 2020
2
S2020E49 A Quick Introduction to Epigenetics - with Nessa Carey
May 28, 2020
7
S2020E50 How Einstein Abolished the Aether - with John Spence
June 4, 2020
60
S2020E51 Zombie Nouns and the Passive Voice in Writing - with Steven Pinker
June 11, 2020
11
S2020E52 Science Experiments with Potassium Permanganate | Szydlo's At Home Science
June 16, 2020
44
S2020E53 AI and Artificially Enhanced Brains - with Susan Schneider
June 18, 2020
49
S2020E54 Chemical Electricity | Szydlo's At Home Science
June 23, 2020
39
S2020E55 Recombinant DNA and Synthetic Biology – with Michael Sulu
June 25, 2020
6
S2020E56 The Chemistry of Coins | Szydlo's At Home Science
June 30, 2020
31
S2020E57 Unravelling Unconscious Bias - with Pragya Agarwal
July 2, 2020
63
S2020E58 How to Fix a Leaking Tap with Chemistry | Szydlo's At Home Science
July 8, 2020
44
S2020E59 Is Supersymmetry Dead? - with Dan Hooper
July 9, 2020
2
S2020E60 Meteorology and Metallurgy | Szydlo's At Home Science
July 15, 2020
41
S2020E61 Observing the Birth of the Universe - with Lyman Page
July 16, 2020
56
S2020E62 A Tour Through the History of Photography | Szydlo's At Home Science
July 21, 2020
41
S2020E63 The Maths of Contagion: Why Things Spread and Why They Stop - with Adam Kucharski
July 23, 2020
55
S2020E64 How Photos Were Taken 100 Years Ago | Szydlo's At Home Science
July 29, 2020
34
S2020E65 Searching for Life on Another Planet - with Sarah Stewart Johnson
July 31, 2020
62
S2020E66 Petrol Powered Machines | Szydlo's At Home Science
August 5, 2020
32
S2020E67 The Archimedes Principle | Szydlo's At Home Science
August 11, 2020
35
S2020E68 What's the Real Meaning of Quantum Mechanics? - with Jim Baggott
August 12, 2020
60
S2020E69 What's the Weather Like in Space and Why Should We Care? - with Lucie Green
August 14, 2020
64
S2020E70 Our Quest to Understand the Brain – with Matthew Cobb
August 20, 2020
50
S2020E71 A Brief Introduction to General Relativity - with Anthony Zee
August 27, 2020
61
S2020E72 Cancer, Evolution and the Science of Life – with Kat Arney
September 3, 2020
74
S2020E73 The Science of Light and Lasers | Szydlo's At Home Science
September 9, 2020
57
S2020E74 Towards a Posthuman Future – with Martin Rees
September 10, 2020
56
S2020E75 The Curious World of Springs | Szydlo's At Home Science
September 15, 2020
37
S2020E76 The Million Dollar Equations - with Tom Crawford
September 17, 2020
71
S2020E77 The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking) - with Katie Mack
September 24, 2020
53
S2020E78 How to Take and Develop Your Own Photos | Szydlo's At Home Science
September 25, 2020
52
S2020E79 The Last Stargazers - with Emily Levesque
October 2, 2020
55
S2020E80 A Brief History of Stephen Hawking - with Len Mlodinow
October 8, 2020
75
S2020E81 How to Make the World Add Up - with Tim Harford
October 15, 2020
43
S2020E82 A Decade of Discoveries at the Large Hadron Collider
October 22, 2020
91
S2020E83 Diary of an Apprentice Astronaut - with Samantha Cristoforetti
October 29, 2020
40
S2020E84 What Does It Mean to Be Intelligent? - with Howard Gardner
November 5, 2020
42
S2020E85 The 10 Equations that Rule the World - with David Sumpter
November 12, 2020
51
S2020E86 John Tyndall: The Physicist Who Proved the Greenhouse Effect - with Paul Hurley
November 20, 2020
53
S2020E87 The Puzzle of Language - with Alex Bellos
November 26, 2020
49
S2020E88 The Hunt for New Batteries - with Serena Corr
December 7, 2020
70
S2020E89 Computation and the Fundamental Theory of Physics - with Stephen Wolfram
December 10, 2020
78
S2020E90 What is the Sun Made Of? - Christmas Lectures with James Jackson
December 12, 2020
3
S2020E91 A Series of Fortunate Events – with Sean B. Carroll
December 17, 2020
32
S2020E92 How Do We Know That the Earth's Magnetic Poles Have Flipped? - Christmas Lectures with James Jackson
December 19, 2020
5
S2020E93 What Did John Snow Know About Cholera? - with James Grime
December 21, 2020
7
S2020E94 The Human Cosmos - with Jo Marchant
December 23, 2020
63
S2020E95 Why Do Volcanic Eruptions Form Mushrooms Clouds? - Christmas Lectures with James Jackson
December 26, 2020
5
S2020E96 Is It Nature Instead of Nurture That Makes You, You? - with Robert Plomin
season finale
December 30, 2020
38

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