Women in science
Desert Island Discs. Classic Desert Island Discs - Dr Nicola Fox. Audio, 44 minutes
Lauren Laverne talks to Dr Nicola Fox in a programme first broadcast in 2023.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for 1 month
Short History Of... Marie Curie. Audio, 51 minutes
Marie Curie was an extraordinary woman who turned the scientific world on its head
- AttributionBBC Sounds
- Available for over a year
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- Posted24 September
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- Posted29 August
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- Posted29 August
The Conversation. Women, bats and meerkats. Audio, 27 minutes
Costa Rican and Swiss biologists discuss what animal behaviour reveals about life
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
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- Posted26 July
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- Posted19 June
The Conversation. Pioneering women in neurosurgery. Audio, 27 minutes
Datshiane Navanayagam meets two neurosurgeons operating in a male-dominated field
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
The Documentary Podcast. Forward Thinking: Jocelyn Bell Burnell. Audio, 49 minutes
Why a celebrated astrophysicist believes space research needs a new approach
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Unavailable
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- Posted1 February
Arts & Ideas. Margaret Cavendish. Audio, 45 minutes
Nandini Das and guests discuss the Duchess of Newcastle - philosopher, poet and scientist
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Great Lives. Kate Raworth on Donella Meadows. Audio, 28 minutes
Economist Kate Raworth chooses the Environmental Scientist Donella 'Dana' Meadows
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Desert Island Discs. Professor Sharon Peacock, scientist. Audio, 38 minutes
Sharon Peacock, scientist, shares the soundtrack of her life with Lauren Laverne.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
The Life Scientific. Haley Gomez on cosmic dust. Audio, 28 minutes
Jim Al-Khalili talks to astrophysicist Haley Gomez.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Desert Island Discs. Professor Corinne Le Quéré, climate scientist. Audio, 37 minutes
Corinne Le Quéré, scientist, shares the soundtrack of her life with Lauren Laverne.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Business Daily. Business Daily Meets: Dr Natalie Kenny. Audio, 18 minutes
The founder of BioGrad shares stories from her remarkable life in science
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
The Forum. A forgotten founder of climate science: Eunice Newton Foote. Audio, 39 minutes
The first person to link CO2 with global warming, and why she vanished from history
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Science In Action. Monster microbe. Audio, 34 minutes
Gigantic bacterium discovered in the Caribbean. It’s the size and shape of an eyelash.
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
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- Posted28 April 2022
The Documentary Podcast. Generation Change: Equality in science and technology. Audio, 27 minutes
Young people working to diversify science, technology, engineering and maths
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
The Forum. Mary Somerville: The queen of 19th-Century science. Audio, 40 minutes
The 19th-Century polymath who popularised science for generations of readers
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted4 November 2021
The exceptional life of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin. BBC Ideas. Video, 00:05:46
BBC Ideas celebrates the life of the only British woman scientist to win a Nobel prize.
- AttributionBBC
- Posted27 September 2021
