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The Hidden Power of Noise

Bridget Kendall and guests discuss why we should pay more attention to background noise.

• 28 mins

Machine Translation: The End of the Human Translator?

Will new technology mean the end of the human translator?

• 28 mins

Wheel Revolutions

Bridget Kendall and guests discuss the technology and art of wheeled transport.

• 28 mins

Living at the Edge: Life in Extreme Environments

Extreme life and synthetic biology in the sea, on land and in space.

• 28 mins

Taming Nature

What lies behind our desire to improve and perfect nature?

• 28 mins

Grass Roots: The Impact and Influence of 'People's' Movements

Bridget Kendall and guests explores how 'people's' movements are changing.

• 28 mins

The Element of Surprise

Bridget Kendall and guests explore the unexpected in art, science and everyday life.

• 28 mins

Reawakening Language

How can we save or 'reawaken' dying languages?

• 28 mins

Balloons and How They Changed the World

The extraordinary impact of balloons on human society.

• 28 mins

The New Curators: Who Decides What's Culturally Important?

How the idea of curation has radically changed.

• 28 mins

Fire: How Climate Change Is Altering Our Attitudes to Wildfires

Bridget Kendall and guests explore ideas about how wildfires should be dealt with.

• 30 mins

Mata Hari: Dancer, Lover, Spy

What is the truth behind the legendary WWI spy-seductress?

• 28 mins

The Bittersweet Tale of Cocoa

Bridget Kendall and guests explore the origins of chocolate.

• 28 mins

Indian Princely States

Rajan Datar explores a lost world of culture and romance.

• 28 mins

Marie Curie - A Pioneering Life

The extraordinary life of the Polish scientist who changed the course of physics.

• 28 mins

The Magic of Bronze

Bridget Kendall and guests explore the history and importance of bronze.

• 28 mins

Up Close with the Tango

The dance that seduced the world

• 28 mins

The One Thousand and One Nights

Rajan Datar and guests explore the power of storytelling.

• 28 mins

Picasso: Artist of Reinvention

How an artist changed our way of seeing.

• 28 mins

Making Scents: The Story of Perfume

Bridget Kendall and guests explore how fine fragrance became what it is today.

• 28 mins

Nikola Tesla's Electric Dreams

Bridget Kendall and guests discuss the life and inventions of engineer Nikola Tesla.

• 28 mins

Stanislavsky: Founder of Modern Acting

Bridget Kendall presents the ideas discussion show.

• 28 mins

From Straw Poll to Opinion Poll

Exploring the past, present and future of opinion polling

• 28 mins

Who Was the Real Cleopatra?

Bridget Kendall and guests unpick fact from fiction in the life of the last Queen of Egypt

• 28 mins