Show overview
BBC Inside Science has been publishing since 2013, and across the 13 years since has built a catalogue of 672 episodes. That works out to roughly 340 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a weekly cadence.
Episodes typically run twenty to thirty-five minutes — most land between 28 min and 31 min — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-language Science show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 1 weeks ago, with 39 episodes already out so far this year. Published by BBC.
Episodes
672
Running
2013–2026 · 13y
Median length
28 min
Cadence
Weekly
From the publisher
A weekly programme that illuminates the mysteries and challenges the controversies behind the science that's changing our world.
Latest Episodes
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Sep 24, 202626 min
AI to solve the energy crisis?
Sep 17, 202626 min
What AI agents talk about behind your back
Sep 10, 202626 min
The quest for dark matter
Sep 3, 202626 min
The day of the datacentres
Aug 27, 202626 min
Is the era of the cancer vaccine upon us?
Aug 20, 202626 min
Should we be scared of AI viruses?
Aug 13, 202626 min
The state of our substrate: What is drought doing to our soil?
Aug 6, 202626 min
Are we alone in the universe?
Jul 30, 202626 min
Testing testosterone testing
Jul 23, 202626 min
How might we spot nukes in space?
Jul 16, 202626 min
Are we one step closer to creating life in a lab?
Jul 9, 202626 min
How do you immortalise natural history?
Jul 2, 202626 min
Can we engineer ourselves out of a heatwave?
Jun 25, 202626 min
Finding the evidence for the social media ban
Jun 18, 202626 min
How do you build an unbuildable tower?
Jun 11, 202626 min
How is AI going to change science?
Jun 4, 202626 min
Plankton's untapped potential
May 28, 202626 min
El Niño is nigh, but so what?
May 21, 202626 min
The science behind hantavirus
May 14, 202626 min
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