Genetics
Analysis. My DNA. Audio, 28 minutes
Ben Hammersley investigates the predictive genetics industry.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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In Our Time. Lysenkoism. Audio, 45 minutes
Melvyn Bragg examines the destructive career of the Soviet geneticist Trofim Lysenko.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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Desert Island Discs. Alec Jeffreys. Audio, 45 minutes
Kirsty Young's castaway is geneticist Alec Jeffreys.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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In Our Time. Genetic Mutation. Audio, 45 minutes
Melvyn Bragg discusses mutation in genetics and evolution.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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Frontiers. Neanderthal DNA. Audio, 30 minutes
Andrew Luck-Baker describes scientists' efforts to sequence Neanderthal DNA.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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Ethnic Drugs: The Magic Bullet? Audio, 30 minutes
Connie St Louis investigates ethnic marketing in the pharmaceutical industry.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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Frontiers. Artificial Life. Audio, 30 minutes
Peter Evans investigates a new, yet controversial field of synthetic biology.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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Agenda. Genetic Research – Interview with Sir Paul Nurse. Audio, 26 minutes
Interview with Sir Paul Nurse, British biochemist and Nobel laureate
- AttributionBBC World Service
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The Archive Hour. A Twist to Life. Audio, 60 minutes
Professor Steve Jones tells the story of DNA and its discovery.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4 Extra
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Agenda. 'Human Genome Belongs to Everyone,' says John Sulston, Nobel Laureate. Audio, 26 minutes
John Sulston on his Nobel Prize, and the race to map the human genome and keep it free
- AttributionBBC World Service
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Agenda. Getting the Measure of Human Nature. Audio, 26 minutes
Can innate human nature – why we are the way we are – be quantified?
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Essential Guide. Gene Pioneers - Part Three. Audio, 28 minutes
Molecular biologist Inda Vermer talks about gene therapy
- AttributionBBC World Service
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Essential Guide. Gene Pioneers - Part Two. Audio, 29 minutes
How Francis Collins and John Sulston got involved in the Human Genome Project
- AttributionBBC World Service
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Essential Guide. Gene Pioneers - Part One. Audio, 29 minutes
Molecular geneticist Maxine Singer talks about DNA research and genetic manipulation
- AttributionBBC World Service
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The Beginner's Guide to Science. The Human Genome. Audio, 13 minutes
Dr E Virginia Lapham is a social scientist who is dipping her toe into genetics
- AttributionBBC World Service
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Science View. Human Genome Project Findings. Audio, 23 minutes
First broadcast in 2001. Humans have 26,000 to 30,000 genes - only 300 more than a mouse
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Being Human. Audio, 24 minutes
How DNA analysis reveals that chimpanzees are even closer to humans than we thought
- AttributionBBC World Service
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Visionaries. Human Genome Project. Audio, 4 minutes
Predictions that the entire sequence of the human genome will be identified
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Essential Guide. Health: Fixing Genes. Audio, 29 minutes
What does the future hold for molecular medicine?
- AttributionBBC World Service
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Agenda. How Behaviour Develops – Nature versus Nurture Updated. Audio, 27 minutes
What role do genes play in shaping human behaviour and personality? Can we really change?
- AttributionBBC World Service
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Science View. Human Genome Project. Audio, 4 minutes
Co-operation in the human genome project which aims to sequence the entire human genome
- AttributionBBC World Service
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Science View. Genetic Engineering. Audio, 4 minutes
GM plants, patents on seeds and the terminator gene that makes seeds sterile
- AttributionBBC World Service
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Science View. Fixing Faults with Genes. Audio, 4 minutes
Over two thousand diseases are caused by faulty genes - can we fix them?
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year