Inventions
An Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth. Audio, 28 minutes
The writer Tom Dyckhoff looks at the life and work of Richard Buckminster Fuller.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
The Turing Solution. Audio, 28 minutes
Mathematician and code-breaker Alan Turing, and his role in the invention of the computer.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4 Extra
- Available for over a year
Punt PI. Series 4, Episode 2. Audio, 30 minutes
Steve Punt turns private investigator, examining little mysteries that amuse and beguile.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
An Idea Whose Time Has Come. Audio, 30 minutes
How common is simultaneous discovery in science and is it a case of convergent evolution?
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Great Lives. Thomas Edison. Audio, 30 minutes
Sir Clive Sinclair discusses fellow inventor Thomas Edison with Matthew Parris.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Great Lives. Robert Hooke. Audio, 28 minutes
David Attenborough nominates the largely forgotten 17th-century inventor and illustrator.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Balamory. Series 4, Slippy. Video, 19 minutes
It's a snowy day in Balamory and Spencer finds it difficult to travel around on his bike.
- AttributionCBeebies
- Available for over a year
Balamory. Series 4, How Far. Video, 18 minutes
Archie has a fabulous new measuring invention, but who can put it to good use?
- AttributionCBeebies
- Available for over a year
Balamory. Series 4, The Falkirk Wheel. Video, 18 minutes
Archie causes trouble when he creates a new set of table mats.
- AttributionCBeebies
- Available for over a year
Balamory. Series 4, Auntie's Bloomers. Video, 19 minutes
It's a windy day and Archie has a brilliant new invention for keeping his knees warm.
- AttributionCBeebies
- Available for over a year
Great Lives. Erasmus Darwin. Audio, 30 minutes
Paul Nurse discusses scientist, inventor and poet Erasmus Darwin, grandfather of Charles.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Letter from America by Alistair Cooke. A Giant Step for Womankind. Audio, 15 minutes
Union resistance to trading with China, reminds Mr Cooke of the invention of dishwashers.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Speaking Lives. Inventions. Audio, 14 minutes
Do you have what it takes to become an inventor?
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
The Money Makers. James Dyson. Audio, 14 minutes
Inventor, designer and businessman- James Dyson
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Letter from America by Alistair Cooke. Jerome Murray, inventor (1912-1998) Audio, 15 minutes
Remembering inventor Jerome Murray's many discreet but very usefull creations.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Desert Island Discs. Richard Gregory. Audio, 40 minutes
Sue Lawley's castaway is scientist and founder of Bristol Exploratory Richard Gregory
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
