The Life Scientific
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
Latest Episode
Kevin Fong on medical planning for Mars and Earth-based emergencies (15.07.2025)
Previous Episodes
- Dame Pratibha Gai on training atoms to do what we want 08.07.2025
- Catherine Heymans on the lighter side of the dark universe 01.07.2025
- Tim Coulson on how predators shape ecosystems and evolution 24.06.2025
- Claudia de Rham on playing with gravity 17.06.2025
- Neil Lawrence on taking down the 'digital oligarchy' and why we shouldn't fear AI 10.06.2025
- Liz Morris on Antarctic adventures and the melting polar ice sheets 03.06.2025
- Anthony Fauci on a medical career navigating pandemics and presidents 27.05.2025
- Brian Schmidt on Nobel Prize-winning supernovae and the joys of making wine 22.04.2025
- Jacqueline McKinley on unearthing bones and stories at Britain's ancient burial sites 15.04.2025
- Jonathan Shepherd on a career as a crime-fighting surgeon 08.04.2025
- Doyne Farmer on making sense of chaos for a better world 01.04.2025
- Tori Herridge on ancient dwarf elephants and frozen mammoths 25.03.2025
- Sir Magdi Yacoub on pioneering heart transplant surgery 18.03.2025
- Tim Peake on his journey to becoming an astronaut and science in space 31.12.2024
- Anna Korre on capturing carbon dioxide and defying expectations 24.09.2024
- Rosalie David on the science of Egyptian mummies 17.09.2024
- Peter Stott on climate change deniers and Italian inspiration 10.09.2024
- Ijeoma Uchegbu on using nanoparticles to transform medicines 03.09.2024
- Darren Croft on killer whale matriarchs and the menopause 27.08.2024
- Bill Gates on vaccines, conspiracy theories and the pleasures of pickleball 20.08.2024
