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

Episodes (260 available)

Oceanographer Bob Ballard discusses his 60-year career in deep-sea exploration.
28 mins

Professor Gillian Forrester on how we became the walking, talking great apes we are today.
28 mins

David Canter on how he came to found the field of 'investigative psychology'.
28 mins

Epigeneticist Edith Heard on decoding the details of how X chromosomes are expressed.
28 mins

Ginger Kerrick on training the first ISS crew and becoming the voice of Mission Control.
29 mins

Dean Lomax on his unconventional route into palaeontology and making BIG discoveries.
28 mins

Professor Helen Hastie on the positive future role for robots in our world.
28 mins

Epidemiologist Seth Berkley on a career trying to get vaccines to those in need.
28 mins

Hiranya Peiris on discovering the origin and evolution of the universe.
28 mins

Washington Yotto Ochieng reveals just how dependent we are on navigation systems like GPS.
28 mins
