The Life Scientific
BBC Radio 4 science biography programme From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Life Scientific is a BBC Radio 4 science programme, presented by Jim Al-Khalili, in which each episode is dedicated to the biography and work of a living scientist.[1][2][3][4] The programme consists of an interview between Al-Khalili and the featured scientist, with others contributing anecdotes.[4]
| Running time | 30 minutes |
|---|---|
| Home station | BBC Radio 4 |
| Hosted by | Jim Al-Khalili |
| Written by | Jim Al-Khalili |
| Original release | 11 October 2011 |
| No. of episodes | 281 (As of 28 March 2023[update]) |
| Website | The Life Scientific at BBC Online |
It is broadcast on Tuesday mornings in the UK,[4] and is available online and via BBC Sounds, as is an archive of past episodes.[5] There have been over 200 episodes since the first, an interview with Sir Paul Nurse 12 years ago.[6] In October 2021 the programme reached its 10-year anniversary with discussion between Ottoline Leyser, Paul Nurse, Christopher Jackson and Sue Black about what makes a scientist a scientist.[7]
Guests have included:[8]
| Number | Name | Date | Topic | Programme page |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Paul Nurse | 11 October 2011 | Biology, winning the Nobel Prize and being President of the Royal Society | [6] |
| 2 | Steven Pinker | 18 October 2011 | Science writing and cognitive psychology | [9] |
| 3 | Jocelyn Bell Burnell | 25 October 2011 | Astrophyics and winning the Nobel Prize | [10] |
| 4 | Michael Marmot | 1 November 2011 | How stress kills | [11] |
| 5 | Colin Blakemore | 8 November 2011 | Neuroscience | [12] |
| 6 | Molly Stevens | 15 November 2011 | Growing human bones in a test tube | [13] |
| 7 | Nicola Clayton | 22 November 2011 | The intelligence of birds | [14] |
| 8 | John Sulston | 29 November 2011 | Biology | [15] |
| 9 | Uta Frith | 6 December 2011 | Changing how we view brain disorders | [16] |
| 10 | Tim Hunt | 13 December 2011 | Molecular biology and winning the Nobel Prize | [17] |
| 11 | Robert Winston | 20 December 2011 | IVF, the House of Lords and scientists' ethical responsibility | [18] |
| 12 | Colin Pillinger | 27 December 2011 | Life on Mars | [19] |
| 13 | Robin Murray | 7 February 2012 | The cause of schizophrenia | [20] |
| 14 | Chris Stringer | 14 February 2012 | Paleoanthropology and who our ancestors were | [21] |
| 15 | Tony Ryan | 21 February 2012 | The future of nanotechnology | [22] |
| 16 | Iain Chalmers | 28 February 2012 | Health services | [23] |
| 17 | Martin Rees | 6 March 2012 | The multiverse | [24] |
| 18 | John Lawton | 13 March 2012 | Ecology | [25] |
| 19 | Tejinder Virdee | 20 March 2012 | The search for the Higgs boson | [26] |
| 20 | Angela Gallop | 27 March 2012 | Forensic science | [27] |
| 21 | James Lovelock | 8 May 2012 | The Gaia hypothesis, microwave ovens | [28] |
| 22 | Frances Ashcroft | 15 May 2012 | The link between blood sugar and insulin | [29] |
| 23 | Lloyd Peck | 22 May 2012 | Giant sea spiders | [30] |
| 24 | Barbara Sahakian | 29 May 2012 | Neurotransmitters | [31] |
| 25 | Bob May | 5 June 2012 | Public trust | [32] |
| 26 | John Pickett | 12 June 2012 | GM wheat | [33] |
| 27 | Steve Jones | 7 August 2012 | Snail studies | [34] |
| 28 | Pat Wolseley | 14 August 2012 | Her obsession with lichen | [35] |
| 29 | Martin Siegert | 21 August 2012 | Under the Antarctic ice | [36] |
| 30 | Ann Dowling | 28 August 2012 | Silent aircraft | [37] |
| 31 | Richard Dawkins | 4 September 2012 | Being a biologist and author | [38] |
| 32 | Andrea Sella | 11 September 2012 | Why my chemistry demonstrations are filling theatres | [39] |
| 33 | David Nutt | 18 September 2012 | Research into drugs and the brain | [40] |
| 34 | Sunetra Gupta | 25 September 2012 | Being a scientist and novelist | [41] |
| 35 | Mark Walport | 2 October 2012 | Being Government Chief Scientific Advisor | [42] |
| 36 | Hugh Montgomery | 9 October 2012 | The gene for fitness | [43] |
| 37 | Monica Grady | 16 October 2012 | Life on Mars | [44] |
| 38 | Jared Diamond | 4 December 2012 | Gall bladders, global history and the birds of Papua New Guinea | [45] |
| 39 | John Gurdon | 18 December 2012 | Cloning a frog decades before Dolly the Sheep | [46] |
| 40 | Amoret Whitaker | 8 January 2013 | Insects and their role in helping solve crimes | [47] |
| 41 | Robert Mair | 15 January 2013 | Tunnelling under Big Ben, Crossrail and engineering for the future | [48] |
| 42 | Annette Karmiloff-Smith | 22 January 2013 | Should babies under two watch TV? | [49] |
| 43 | Noel Sharkey | 29 January 2013 | Robotics and psychology | [50] |
| 44 | Valerie Beral | 5 February 2013 | Breast cancer | [51] |
| 45 | Alan Watson | 19 February 2013 | His quest to discover the source of cosmic rays | [52] |
| 46 | Sue Ion | 26 February 2013 | Working in the nuclear industry | [53] |
| 47 | Nancy Rothwell | 7 May 2013 | Neuroscience | [54] |
| 48 | Sanjeev Gupta | 14 May 2013 | What links the English Channel to valleys on Mars? | [55] |
| 49 | John Krebs | 21 May 2013 | Birds, foot and mouth disease and badgers | [56] |
| 50 | Linda Partridge | 28 May 2013 | The science of longevity | [57] |
| 51 | Athene Donald | 4 June 2013 | The physics behind everyday stuff | [58] |
| 52 | Ewan Birney | 11 June 2013 | Deciphering the human genome and junk DNA | [59] |
| 53 | David Spiegelhalter | 18 June 2013 | Risk and uncertainty | [60] |
| 54 | Elizabeth Stokoe | 25 June 2013 | Studying real-life conversations | [61] |
| 55 | Russell Foster | 20 August 2013 | Circadian rhythms and jet lag | [62] |
| 56 | Joanna Haigh | 27 August 2013 | Climate | [63] |
| 57 | Mark Lythgoe | 3 September 2013 | Medical imaging and mountain climbing | [64] |
| 58 | Michael Benton | 10 September 2013 | Digging up dinosaurs in remote places | [65] |
| 59 | Ian Stewart | 17 September 2013 | Sci-fi and popularising maths | [66] |
| 60 | Sophie Scott | 24 September 2013 | The science of laughter | [67] |
| 61 | Jenny Graves | 1 October 2013 | Kangaroos and the death of the Y chromosome | [68] |
| 62 | Wendy Hall | 8 October 2013 | The development of the web | [69] |
| 63 | Peter Higgs | 18 February 2014 | The real story of the Higgs boson | [70] |
| 64 | Sue Black | 25 February 2014 | Identifying human bodies | [71] |
| 65 | Vikram Patel | 4 March 2014 | Global mental health | [72] |
| 66 | Mark Miodownik | 11 March 2014 | Nuclear weapons, 3D printers and smart materials | [73] |
| 67 | Anne Glover | 18 March 2014 | Glow-in-the-dark bacteria and advising ministers | [74] |
| 68 | Alf Adams | 25 March 2014 | His small idea that changed the world (the strained-layer quantum-well laser) | [75] |
| 69 | Veronica van Heyningen | 1 April 2014 | The gene that builds the eye | [76] |
| 70 | Julia Slingo | 8 April 2014 | Being chief scientist at the Met Office | [77] |
| 71 | Michael Rutter | 3 June 2014 | Child psychiatry | [78] |
| 72 | Janet Hemingway | 10 June 2014 | Malaria and the coming of insecticide resistance | [79] |
| 73 | Chris Lintott | 17 June 2014 | Crowd sourced astronomy and Galaxy Zoo | [80] |
| 74 | Sandra Knapp | 24 June 2014 | Her adventures collecting plants in South America | [81] |
| 75 | Christopher Llewellyn Smith | 1 July 2014 | Nuclear fusion | [82] |
| 76 | Zoe Shipton | 8 July 2014 | Fracking | [83] |
| 77 | Jeremy Farrar | 15 July 2014 | Fighting viruses | [84] |
| 78 | Carol Robinson | 22 July 2014 | Chemistry | [85] |
| 79 | Brian Cox | 23 September 2014 | Quantum mechanics | [86] |
| 80 | Jackie Akhavan | 30 September 2014 | Explosives | [87] |
| 81 | Elspeth Garman | 7 October 2014 | Crystallography | [88] |
| 82 | Chris Toumazou | 14 October 2014 | Inventing medical devices | [89] |
| 83 | Margaret Boden | 21 October 2014 | Artificial intelligence | [90] |
| 84 | Richard Fortey | 28 October 2014 | Fossils | [91] |
| 85 | Sally Davies | 4 November 2014 | Public health | [92] |
| 86 | Dave Goulson | 11 November 2014 | Bees | [93] |
| 87 | John O'Keefe | 10 March 2015 | Memory | [94] |
| 88 | Matt Taylor | 17 March 2015 | The Rosetta space mission | [95] |
| 89 | Sarah-Jayne Blakemore | 24 March 2015 | Teenage brains | [96] |
| 90 | Jane Francis | 31 March 2015 | Antarctica | [97] |
| 91 | Steve Shirley | 7 April 2015 | Computer coding | [98] |
| 92 | Nigel Shadbolt | 14 April 2015 | The World Wide Web | [99] |
| 93 | Susan Jebb | 21 April 2015 | Nutrition | [100] |
| 94 | Anil Seth | 16 June 2015 | Consciousness | [101] |
| 95 | Kate Jones | 23 June 2015 | Bats and biodiversity | [102] |
| 96 | Henry Marsh | 30 June 2015 | Brain surgery | [103] |
| 97 | Dorothy Bishop | 7 July 2015 | Language disorders | [104] |
| 98 | Carlos Frenk | 14 July 2015 | Dark matter | [105] |
| 99 | Niamh Nic Daéid | 21 July 2015 | Forensic science | [106] |
| 100 | E. O. Wilson | 28 July 2015 | Ants and evolution | [107] |
| 101 | Geoff Palmer | 4 August 2015 | Brewing | [108] |
| 102 | Carol Black | 6 October 2015 | Public health | [109] |
| 103 | Danielle George | 13 October 2015 | Electronics | [110] |
| 104 | Robert Plomin | 20 October 2015 | The genetics of intelligence | [111] |
| 105 | Patrick Vallance | 3 November 2015 | Pharmaceuticals | [112] |
| 106 | Kathy Willis | 10 November 2015 | Botany | [113] |
| 107 | Paul Younger | 17 November 2015 | Energy for the future | [114] |
| 108 | Peter Piot | 9 February 2016 | Tackling ebola and HIV | [115] |
| 109 | Naomi Climer | 16 February 2016 | Engineering | [116] |
| 110 | Nick Lane | 23 February 2016 | The origin of life on earth | [117] |
| 111 | George Davey Smith | 1 March 2016 | Health inequalities | [118] |
| 112 | Venki Ramakrishnan | 8 March 2016 | Ribosomes | [119] |
| 113 | Helen Sharman | 15 March 2016 | Being an astronaut | [120] |
| 114 | Carolyn Roberts | 22 March 2016 | Flood control | [121] |
| 115 | Lawrence Krauss | 31 May 2016 | Dark energy | [122] |
| 116 | Marcus du Sautoy | 7 June 2016 | Mathematics | [123] |
| 117 | Sheila Rowan | 14 June 2016 | Gravitational waves | [124] |
| 118 | Nick Davies | 21 June 2016 | Cuckoos | [125] |
| 119 | Hazel Rymer | 28 June 2016 | Volcanoes | [126] |
| 120 | Faraneh Vargha-Khadem | 5 July 2016 | Memory | [127] |
| 121 | Georgina Mace | 12 July 2016 | Threatened species | [128] |
| 122 | Trevor Cox | 19 July 2016 | Sound | [129] |
| 123 | Ian Wilmut | 4 October 2016 | Dolly the Sheep | [130] |
| 124 | Frans de Waal | 11 October 2016 | Chimpanzees | [131] |
| 125 | Lynne Boddy | 15 November 2016 | Fungi | [132] |
| 126 | Roger Penrose | 22 November 2016 | Black holes, quantum mechanics, consciousness | [133] |
| 127 | Julia Higgins | 29 November 2016 | Polymers | [134] |
| 128 | Richard Morris | 6 December 2016 | How we know where we are | [135] |
| 129 | Neil deGrasse Tyson | 20 December 2016 | Pluto | [136] |
| 130 | Michele Dougherty | 10 January 2017 | Saturn | [137] |
| 131 | Jan Zalasiewicz | 17 January 2017 | The Age of Man | [138] |
| 132 | Sadaf Farooqi | 24 January 2017 | What makes us fat | [139] |
| 133 | Alison Smith | 31 January 2017 | Algae | [140] |
| 134 | Sean Carroll | 7 February 2017 | How time and space began | [141] |
| 135 | Simon Wessely | 14 February 2017 | Unexplained medical syndromes | [142] |
| 136 | Alan Winfield | 21 February 2017 | Robot ethics | [143] |
| 137 | Alison Woollard | 28 February 2017 | What she has learnt from mutant worms | [144] |
| 138 | Daniel Dennett | 4 April 2017 | The evolution of the human brain | [145] |
| 139 | Nick Fraser | 11 April 2017 | Triassic reptiles | [146] |
| 140 | Liz Sockett | 18 April 2017 | Friendly killer bacteria | [147] |
| 141 | Graham MacGregor | 25 April 2017 | Tackling the demons in our diet | [148] |
| 142 | Ann Clarke | 2 May 2017 | The Frozen Ark | [149] |
| 143 | Fay Dowker | 9 May 2017 | A new theory of space-time | [150] |
| 144 | Ottoline Leyser | 16 May 2017 | How plants decide what to do | [151] |
| 145 | Tim O'Brien | 23 May 2017 | Transient stars and science and music festivals | [152] |
| 146 | Tamsin Mather | 30 May 2017 | Volcanology | [153] |
| 147 | Jennifer Doudna | 19 September 2017 | Gene editing | [154] |
| 148 | Tracey Rogers | 26 September 2017 | Leopard seals and Antarctica | [155] |
| 149 | Lucie Green | 3 October 2017 | The Sun | [156] |
| 150 | Steven Cowley | 10 October 2017 | Nuclear Fusion | [157] |
| 151 | Tim Birkhead | 17 October 2017 | Bird promiscuity | [158] |
| 152 | Ellen Stofan | 24 October 2017 | Being NASA Chief Scientist | [159] |
| 153 | Adrian Thomas | 31 October 2017 | The mechanics of flight | [160] |
| 154 | Eben Upton | 16 January 2018 | Raspberry Pi | [161] |
| 155 | Eugenia Cheng | 23 January 2018 | The mathematics of mathematics | [162] |
| 156 | Wendy Barclay | 30 January 2018 | The flu virus | [163] |
| 157 | Richard Henderson | 13 February 2018 | The molecules of life | [164] |
| 158 | John Burn | 20 February 2018 | The genetics of cancer | [165] |
| 159 | Ailie MacAdam | 27 February 2018 | The biggest construction project in Europe | [166] |
| 160 | Clare Grey | 6 March 2018 | Big battery challenge | [167] |
| 161 | Steve Reicher | 13 March 2018 | Psychology of crowds | [168] |
| 162 | Callum Roberts | 1 May 2018 | Marine conservation | [169] |
| 163 | Carlo Rovelli | 8 May 2018 | Why time is not what it seems | [170] |
| 164 | Caroline Dean | 15 May 2018 | Genetic secrets of flowering | [171] |
| 165 | Catherine Hobaiter | 22 May 2018 | Communication in apes | [172] |
| 166 | John Taylor | 29 May 2018 | Being an inventor | [173] |
| 167 | Sheena Cruickshank | 5 June 2018 | The wonders of the human immune system | [174] |
| 168 | Frank Close | 12 June 2018 | Particle physics | [175] |
| 169 | Rachel Mills | 19 June 2018 | Exploring the sea floor | [176] |
| 170 | Jacqueline McGlade | 23 October 2018 | Monitoring the environment from space | [177] |
| 171 | Noel Fitzpatrick | 30 October 2018 | Becoming a supervet | [178] |
| 172 | Suzanne O'Sullivan | 6 November 2018 | Detective of the mind | [179] |
| 173 | Michael Stratton | 13 November 2018 | Cancer genes | [180] |
| 174 | Caroline Hargrove | 20 November 2018 | Formula One | [181] |
| 175 | Alastair Hay | 27 November 2018 | Banning chemical weapons | [182] |
| 176 | Maggie Aderin-Pocock | 4 December 2018 | Sky at Night presenter | [183] |
| 177 | Clive Oppenheimer | 11 December 2018 | Volcanic offerings of our angry earth | [184] |
| 178 | Jim Al-Khalili | 5 February 2019 | HIS life scientific: Interviewed by Adam Rutherford |
[185] |
| 179 | Sue Black | 12 February 2019 | Women in Technology | [186] |
| 180 | Gregory Winter | 19 February 2019 | 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry | [187] |
| 181 | Gwen Adshead | 26 February 2019 | The minds of violent offenders | [188] |
| 182 | Donna Strickland | 5 March 2019 | 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics | [189] |
| 183 | Ken Gabriel | 12 March 2019 | Why your Smartphone is Smart | [190] |
| 184 | Corinne Le Quéré | 19 March 2019 | Global carbon cycle | [191] |
| 185 | Paul Davies | 26 March 2019 | Origin of life and the evolution of cancer | [192] |
| 186 | Irene Tracey | 2 April 2019 | Pain in the brain | [192] |
| 187 | Richard Peto | 9 April 2019 | Why smoking kills but quitting saves lives | [193] |
| 188 | Erica McAlister | 16 April 2019 | The beauty of flies | [194] |
| 189 | Richard Thompson | 25 June 2019 | Plastic pollution | [195] |
| 190 | Ewine van Dishoeck | 2 July 2019 | Cosmic chemistry | [196] |
| 191 | Turi King | 9 July 2019 | Ancient DNA | [197] |
| 192 | Katherine Joy | 16 July 2019 | Lunar rock | [198] |
| 193 | Robin Dunbar | 23 July 2019 | Why we have friends | [199] |
| 194 | Jonathan Ball | 30 July 2019 | Arms race against viruses | [200] |
| 195 | Richard Wiseman | 1 October 2019 | Lying, luck and the paranormal | [201] |
| 196 | Anne Magurran | 8 October 2019 | How to measure biodiversity | [202] |
| 197 | Martha Clokie | 15 October 2019 | The viruses that could improve our health | [203] |
| 198 | Adrian Owen | 22 October 2019 | Scanning for awareness in the injured brain | [204] |
| 199 | Saiful Islam | 29 October 2019 | Materials to power the 21st century | [205] |
| 200 | Demis Hassabis | 5 November 2019 | Artificial intelligence | [206] |
| 201 | Elizabeth Fisher | 12 November 2019 | Chromosomes in mice and men | [207] |
| 202 | Patricia Wiltshire | 7 January 2020 | How pollen can solve crimes | [208] |
| 203 | Susannah Maidment | 14 January 2020 | Stegosaurs | [209] |
| 204 | Peter Fonagy | 28 January 2020 | A revolution in mental health care | [210] |
| 205 | Peter Ratcliffe | 4 February 2020 | 2019 Nobel Prize winner for Physiology or Medicine | [211] |
| 206 | Polina Bayvel | 11 February 2020 | Optical communications | [212] |
| 207 | Myles Allen | 18 February 2020 | Understanding climate change | [213] |
| 208 | Anya Hurlbert | 25 February 2020 | Seeing colour | [214] |
| 209 | Matthew Cobb | 3 March 2020 | How we detect smells | [215] |
| 210 | Brian Greene | 28 April 2020 | How the universe is made of string | [216] |
| 211 | Jim McDonald | 5 May 2020 | Power networks | [217] |
| 212 | Debbie Pain | 12 May 2020 | Conserving globally threatened bird species | [218] |
| 213 | Frank Kelly | 10 March 2021 | Air pollution | [219] |
| 214 | Liz Seward | 26 May 2020 | Space science | [220] |
| 215 | Jane Goodall | 2 June 2020 | Life with chimpanzees in the Gombe | [221] |
| 216 | Emma Bunce | 9 June 2020 | Space science - gas giants of the outer solar system | [222] |
| 217 | Clifford Stott | 16 June 2020 | Riot prevention | [223] |
| 218 | Alice Roberts | 4 August 2020 | Bones | [224] |
| 219 | Andy Fabian | 11 August 2020 | Black holes | [225] |
| 220 | Dale Sanders | 18 August 2020 | Feeding the world | [226] |
| 221 | Heather Koldewey | 25 August 2020 | Marine conservation | [227] |
| 222 | Francesca Happé | 1 September 2020 | Autism | [228] |
| 223 | Steve Haake | 8 September 2020 | Technology, sport and health | [229] |
| 224 | Sarah Gilbert | 15 September 2020 | Developing a vaccine for Covid-19 | [230] |
| 225 | Neil Ferguson | 22 September 2020 | Modelling Covid-19 | [231] |
| 226 | Chris Jackson | 12 January 2021 | Sustainable geology | [232] |
| 227 | Catherine Noakes | 19 January 2021 | Making buildings Covid-safe | [233] |
| 228 | Giles Yeo | 26 January 2021 | How our genes can make us fat | [234] |
| 229 | Anne Johnson | 2 February 2021 | The importance of public health | [235] |
| 230 | Jane Hurst | 16 February 2021 | The secret life of mice | [236] |
| 231 | Richard Bentall | 23 February 2021 | The causes of mental ill health | [237] |
| 232 | Sarah Bridle | 2 March 2021 | The carbon footprint of food | [238] |
| 233 | Mark Spencer | 9 March 2021 | How plants solve crimes | [239] |
| 234 | Theresa Marteau | 13 April 2021 | How to change behaviour | [240] |
| 235 | Martin Sweeting | 20 April 2021 | Microsatellites in space | [241] |
| 236 | Jane Clarke | 27 April 2021 | Protein Folding | [242] |
| 237 | Peter Goadsby | 4 May 2021 | Migraine | [243] |
| 238 | Helen Scales | 11 May 2021 | Marine conservation | [244] |
| 239 | Nira Chamberlain | 18 May 2021 | How mathematics can solve real-world problems | [245] |
| 240 | Mike Tipton | 25 May 2021 | How our bodies respond to extreme conditions | [246] |
| 241 | Tamsin Edwards | 1 June 2021 | Uncertainty in climate science | [247] |
| 242 | Hannah Fry | 7 September 2021 | The power and perils of big data | [248] |
| 243 | David Eagleman | 14 September 2021 | Why reality is an illusion | [249] |
| 244 | Brenda Boardman | 21 September 2021 | Making our homes energy efficient | [250] |
| 245 | Derk-Jan Dijk | 28 September 2021 | The importance of sleep | [251] |
| 246 | Hannah Cloke | 5 October 2021 | Predicting floods | [252] |
| 247 | Jim Al-Khalili | 12 October 2021 | The Life Scientific at 10: What makes a scientist? Talking with Ottoline Leyser, Paul Nurse, Christopher Jackson and Sue Black. | [7] |
| 248 | Tim Spector | 19 October 2021 | Personalised diets for long term health | [253] |
| 249 | Tim Clutton-Brock | 23 October 2021 | Meerkats, red deer and evolution | [254] |
| 250 | Sharon Peacock | 2 November 2021 | Hunting pandemic variants of concern | [255] |
| 251 | Julia Shaw | 22 February 2022 | Memories that aren't true | [256] |
| 252 | Shankar Balasubramanian | 1 March 2022 | Decoding DNA | [257] |
| 253 | Stephen L. Brusatte | 8 March 2022 | The fall of dinosaurs and the rise of mammals | [258] |
| 254 | Ben Garrod | 22 March 2022 | Conservation and extinction | [259] |
| 255 | Chi Onwurah | 24 May 2022 | Why engineering is a caring profession | [260] |
| 256 | Pete Smith | 31 May 2022 | Why soil matters | [261] |
| 257 | Jacinta Tan | 7 June 2022 | Anorexia nervosa and the mind | [262] |
| 258 | Adam Hart | 14 June 2022 | Ants, bees and insect burgers | [263] |
| 259 | Vlatko Vedral | 21 June 2022 | The universe as quantum information | [264] |
| 260 | Martin Landray | 28 June 2022 | Saving over a million lives | [265] |
| 261 | Frances Arnold | 6 September 2022 | From taxi driver to Nobel Prize | [266] |
| 262 | Judith Bunbury | 13 September 2022 | The shifting River Nile in the time of the Pharaohs | [267] |
| 263 | Emily A. Holmes | 20 September 2022 | How to treat trauma | [268] |
| 264 | Daphne Koller | 27 September 2022 | Can computers discover new medicines? | [269] |
| 265 | Tim Lamont | 4 October 2022 | The sounds of coral reefs | [270] |
| 266 | Leon Barron | 11 October 2022 | Why study sewage? | [271] |
| 267 | Bambos Kyriacou | 18 October 2022 | A passion for fruit flies | [272] |
| 268 | Chris Elliott | 10 January 2023 | Fighting food fraud | [273] |
| 269 | Pamela Shaw | 17 January 2023 | Research battle against motor neurone disease | [274] |
| 270 | Rebecca Kilner | 24 January 2023 | Beetle behaviours and evolution | [275] |
| 271 | Clifford V. Johnson | 31 January 2023 | Making sense of black holes and movie plots | [276] |
| 272 | Adrian Smith | 7 February 2023 | The power of Bayesian statistics | [277] |
| 273 | Haley Gomez | 21 February 2023 | Cosmic dust | [278] |
| 274 | Danny Altmann | 28 February 2023 | How T cells fight disease | [279] |
| 275 | Julia King | 7 March 2023 | Manipulating metals and decarbonising transport | [280] |
| 276 | Marie Johnston | 14 March 2023 | Health psychology and the power of behavioural shifts | [281] |
| 277 | James A. Jackson | 21 March 2023 | Understanding earthquakes and building resilience | [282] |
| 278 | Julie Williams | 28 March 2023 | Alzheimer's disease | [283] |
| 279 | Andre Geim | 23 May 2023 | Levitating frogs, graphene and 2D materials | [284] |
| 280 | Gillian Reid | 30 May 2023 | Making chemistry count | [285] |
| 281 | Bruce Malamud | 6 June 2023 | Modelling risk for natural hazards | [286] |
| 282 | Anne-Marie Imafidon | 13 June 2023 | Fighting for diversity and equality in science | [287] |
| 283 | Deborah Greaves | 8 August 2023 | Wave power and offshore renewable energy | [288] |
| 284 | Gideon Henderson | 16 August 2023 | Climate 'clocks' and dating ice ages | [289] |
| 285 | Chris Barratt (scientist) | 23 August 2023 | Head-banging sperm and a future male contraceptive pill | [290] |
| 286 | Colin Humphreys | 29 August 2023 | Electron microscopes, and the thinnest material in the world | [291] |
| 286 | Bahija Jallal | 5 September 2023 | Biotech revolution in cancer therapies | [292] |
| 287 | Paul Murdin | 12 September 2023 | The first ever identification of a black hole | [293] |
| 288 | Alexandre Antonelli | 19 September 2023 | Learning from nature's biodiversity to adapt to climate change | [294] |
| 289 | Edward Witten | 31 October 2023 | M-Theory, the leading contender for a 'theory of everything' | [295] |
| 290 | Sarah Blaffer Hrdy | 7 November 2023 | Human evolution and parenthood | [296] |
| 291 | Sarah Harper | 14 November 2023 | How population change is remodelling societies. | [297] |
| 292 | Michael Berry | 21 November 2023 | Phenomena in physics' borderlands | [298] |
| 293 | Cathie Sudlow | 28 November 2023 | Data in healthcare | [299] |
| 294 | Harshad Bhadeshia | 5 December 2023 | Choreography of metals | [300] |
| 295 | Mercedes Maroto-Valer | 12 December 2023 | Making carbon dioxide useful | [301] |
| 296 | Michael Wooldridge | 19 December 2023 | AI and sentient robots | [302] |
| 297 | Jonathan Van-Tam | 12 March 2024 | Covid communication and the power of football analogies | [303] |
| 298 | Charles Godfray | 19 March 2024 | Parasitic wasps and the race to feed nine billion people | [304] |
| 299 | Sheila Willis | 26 March 2024 | Using science to help solve crime | [305] |
| 300 | Nick Longrich | 2 April 2024 | Discovering new dinosaurs from overlooked bones | [306] |
| 301 | Fiona Rayment | 9 April 2024 | Applications of nuclear for net zero and beyond | [307] |
| 302 | Hannah Critchlow | 16 April 2024 | The connected brain | [308] |
| 303 | Mike Edmunds | 23 April 2024 | The chemical make-up of galaxies and decoding the Antikythera Mechanism | [309] |
| 304 | Conny Aerts | 24 June 2024 | Star vibrations and following your dreams | [310] |
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