DNA
Curious Cases. Series 12, The Viking Code. Audio, 26 minutes
How do ancestry DNA tests work?
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
In Our Time. Free Radicals. Audio, 42 minutes
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the molecules linked to cell functioning and ageing
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Discovery. Tracking the First Animals on Earth. Audio, 27 minutes
In search of the first animals on the Earth, more than half a billion years ago
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Biohacking. DIY. Audio, 14 minutes
Prof Jonathan Ball meets the people trying DNA and Gene therapy on themselves.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Science In Action. Hazard Mapping the Guatemalan Volcano. Audio, 27 minutes
Understanding the risks and hazards of volcanic eruptions
- AttributionBBC World Service
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In Our Time. Rosalind Franklin. Audio, 50 minutes
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the pioneering scientist Rosalind Franklin.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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Discovery. Sydney Brenner: A Revolutionary Biologist. Audio, 27 minutes
Sydney Brenner talks about his part in the DNA revolution between the 1950s and 1980s
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
The Life Scientific. Jennifer Doudna. Audio, 28 minutes
Jennifer Doudna talks to Jim Al-Khalili about her research that is transforming genetics.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
The Inquiry. Is Gene Editing Out of Control? Audio, 23 minutes
The Inquiry looks into the unintended consequences of gene editing
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
In Our Time. Enzymes. Audio, 49 minutes
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss enzymes, the catalysts essential for life.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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Science In Action. Making Babies Without Eggs? Audio, 27 minutes
Scientist make healthy baby mice by tricking sperm into fertilising “fake” egg.
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Discovery. Maurice Wilkins. Audio, 27 minutes
The third man behind the unravelling of DNA's double helix Maurice Wilkins
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
The Business of Genetic Ancestry. Audio, 28 minutes
Adam Rutherford investigates what a DNA test can and cannot tell us about our ancestry.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
The Why Factor. The Y Chromosome. Audio, 18 minutes
How the Y chromosome transforms a female embryo to a male one
- AttributionBBC World Service
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The Essay. The Meaning of Trees, The Meaning of Trees: Poplar. Audio, 15 minutes
Fiona Stafford on the poplar, the most modern tree and the first to have its DNA sequenced
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
The Life Scientific. Ewan Birney. Audio, 28 minutes
Ewan Birney talks to Jim Al-Khalili about deciphering the human genome and junk DNA.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
The Infinite Monkey Cage. Series 7, Creating Life. Audio, 30 minutes
Comedian Ed Byrne joins Robin and Brian to talk about science's quest to create life.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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Frontiers. 05/12/2012. Audio, 28 minutes
Adam Rutherford reports on the recent discovery that much of our DNA is not useless junk.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Frontiers. 20/06/2012. Audio, 28 minutes
Geoff Watts explores new techniques in gene therapy for cystic fibrosis.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Gone Today, Hair Tomorrow. Audio, 30 minutes
The story of hair as an artefact of remembrance.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4 Extra
- Available for over a year
Frontiers. Neanderthal DNA. Audio, 30 minutes
Andrew Luck-Baker describes scientists' efforts to sequence Neanderthal DNA.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Agenda. Genetic Research – Interview with Sir Paul Nurse. Audio, 26 minutes
Interview with Sir Paul Nurse, British biochemist and Nobel laureate
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
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
- Available for over a year
