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Nordic Walking

How adding poles to your walk can burn more calories and boost your heart health!

• 14 mins
• 25 Apr 2024

Toast - Green Shield Stamps

Green Shield Stamps could be traded in for 'free' gifts so why did consumers abandon them?

• 25 mins
• 25 Apr 2024

ADHD, sinking cities, and cleaning up oil spills

Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientists with science news. Plus, a special look at ADHD.

• 51 mins
• 28 Apr 2024

Why Do We Doomscroll?

Endlessly scrolling negative news? Why are we drawn magnetically to the dark side?

• 14 mins
• 30 Dec 2022

29/04/24: Cider orchard, Apples, Plant diseases

A cider orchard is ripped out because of a fall in cider drinking according to the owners.

• 12 mins
• 29 Apr 2024

Book of the Week: Episode 5 - Unravelling the night sky's mysteries

Astronomer Lisa Kaltenegger on unravelling the night sky's mysteries.

• 14 mins
• 03 May 2024

Can we get plastic waste under control?

The UN attempts a global treaty on plastic, and the science of heartbreak.

• 27 mins
• 25 Apr 2024

The thing about Luing

Richard Baynes visits the home of the first new British beef breed in 150 years.

• 22 mins
• 28 Apr 2024

Mike Edmunds on decoding galaxies and ancient astronomical artefacts

Mike Edmunds on the chemical make-up of galaxies and decoding the Antikythera Mechanism

• 32 mins
• 23 Apr 2024

How should we protect our coastlines?

What’s the best way to combat coastal erosion?

• 26 mins
• 26 Apr 2024

A Blood and Guts Tour, Spring at Montrose Basin and Cetacean Rescue

Mark Stephen and Rachel Stewart with stories from the great outdoors.

• 91 mins
• 27 Apr 2024

A Scientific Scéance

Conjuring, not spirits, but critical thinking to expose fradulent psychics

• 50 mins
• 26 Apr 2024

The Infinite Monkey's Guide To... (Series 2)

The Infinite Monkey's Guide To… Audience Favourites (Pt 2)

More listeners' favourite moments from the Infinite Monkey Cage.

• 22 mins
• 27 Mar 2024

Spring in Montrose, Edinburgh's Grisly Past and Pine Tree Fungus

Mark Stephen and Rachel Stewart with stories from the great outdoors.

• 84 mins
• 27 Apr 2024

An armada for asteroid Apophis?

Friday, April 13th 2029 – mark it in your calendar...an asteroid is coming

• 26 mins
• 25 Apr 2024

8. An Answer

Speculation that newly declassified US intelligence will contain smoking-gun evidence.

• 29 mins
• 18 Jul 2023

Diving Gannets and Raging Seas

Martha Kearney gets up close to Bass Rock, one of the world's largest gannet colonies.

• 24 mins
• 25 Apr 2024

Riding the Waves of Anxiety

Comedian Aparna Nancherla struggles with anxiety. Can a new technique help her cope?

• 21 mins
• 24 Apr 2024

Frozen Planet II

Frozen Planet II: 6

An immersive audio experience from Frozen Planet II.

• 30 mins
• 17 Oct 2022

Introducing Helen Lewis Has Left the Chat

From WhatsApp leaks to group chat nightmares, how instant messaging changed the world.

• 10 mins
• 10 Apr 2024