The Life Scientific

BBC

Professor Jim Al-Khalili talks to leading scientists about their life and work, finding out what inspires and motivates them and asking what their discoveries might do for us in the future

Episodes

Edith Heard on unravelling the mystery of X-chromosome inactivation

Ginger Kerrick on manning Nasa's Mission Control and getting to Mars

Dean Lomax on discovering ichthyosaurs and defying nay-sayers

Helen Hastie on the future of human-robot relations

Seth Berkley on the importance of vaccinating the world

Hiranya Peiris on unravelling the story of the universe

Washington Yotto Ochieng on the navigation tech that keeps our world moving

Lucy Carpenter on how our oceans are destroying ozone

Jens Juul Holst on the gut hormone discovery behind weight-loss drugs

Jim Ashworth-Beaumont on how a near-fatal accident made him a better clinician

Jehane Ragai on the science of authenticating artworks

Tony Juniper on parrots, princes and environmental protection

Pierre Friedlingstein on carbon’s pivotal role in climate change

Julia Simner on tasty words and hearing colours

Caroline Smith on meteorites and potential ancient life on Mars

AP De Silva on building molecular fluorescence sensors for healthcare

Peter Knight on quantum technologies

Eleanor Schofield on conserving Tudor warship the Mary Rose

George Church on reimagining woolly mammoths and virus-proofing humans

Gareth Collett on a career in bomb disposal