10 Best BBC Science Podcasts
BBC Science Podcasts
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The BBC brings you all the week's science news.
Host Roland Pease
Producer/Network BBC World Service
Email ****@bbc.co.uk
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2. BBC Inside Science
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A weekly programme that illuminates the mysteries and challenges the controversies behind the science that's changing our world.
Hosts Marnie Chesterton, Victoria Gill, Adam Rutherford
Producer/Network BBC
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Apple Rating 4.4/5Facebook 1.2MTwitter 512.1K Avg Length 29 min Get Email Contact
3. CrowdScience
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We take your questions about life, Earth and the universe to researchers hunting for answers at the frontiers of knowledge.
Producer/Network BBC World Service
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Apple Rating 5/5Facebook 61.2MTwitter 41.3M Avg Length 28 min Get Email Contact
4. Unexpected Elements
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The news you know, the science you don't. Unexpected Elements looks beyond everyday narratives to discover a goldmine of scientific stories and connections from around the globe. From Afronauts, to why we argue, to a deep dive on animal lifespans: see the world in a new way.MORE Host Marnie Chesterton
Producer/Network BBC World Service
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Apple Rating 4.5/5Facebook 9MTwitter 561.5KInstagram 461.7K Avg Length 50 min Get Email Contact
5. Dough
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While Sliced Bread takes a break we serve up… Dough. Dough is the series from BBC Radio 4 which looks at the business behind profitable, everyday products and considers how they might evolve in the years to come.In each episode, entrepreneur Sam White speaks to industry experts to find out how these products manage to make a profit and what game-changing - and pointless - innovations they have seen in their time.Tom Cheesewright, a technology expert and applied futurist, then offers his predictions on what might be coming beyond the current production pipeline...MORE Host Greg Foot
Producer/Network BBC Radio 4
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Apple Rating 4.8/5Facebook 1.2MTwitter 512.1KInstagram 215.6K Avg Length 30 min Get Email Contact
6. Curious Cases
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Hannah Fry and Dara Ó Briain tackle listeners' conundrums with the power of science!
Hosts Dr Hannah Fry, Dara Ó Briain
Producer/Network BBC
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Apple Rating 4.8/5Facebook 1.2MTwitter 512.1KInstagram 215.6K Avg Length 27 min Get Email Contact
7. The Life Scientific
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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
Host Jim Al-Khalili
Producer/Network BBC
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Apple Rating 4.6/5Facebook 1.2MTwitter 512.1KInstagram 215.6K Avg Length 31 min Get Email Contact
8. Scientifically...
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Home of the best science programmes from BBC Radio 4, from the ingenuity behind everyday objects to the biggest questions facing our planet. Released weekly, this podcast is introduced by Dr. Alex Lathbridge.MORE Host Alex Lathbridge
Producer/Network BBC Radio 4
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Apple Rating 5/5Facebook 1.2MTwitter 512.1KInstagram 215.6K Avg Length 30 min Get Email Contact
9. 28ish Days Later
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What do you really know about the menstrual cycle? In this award-winning podcast India Rakusen explores the whole bloody story, discovering facts that could change your life. Periods are just the beginning.MORE Host India Rakusen
Producer/Network BBC Radio 4
Email ****@bbc.co.uk
Apple Rating 5/5 Avg Length 15 min Get Email Contact
BBC Science shows hosts and producers
| Podcaster Name | Role | Podcast Link | Twitter Handle | Twitter Followers | |
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| Roland Pease | Host | bbc.co.uk/programmes/p002vsnb/episodes/player | @peaseroland | 3.5K | |
| Marnie Chesterton | Co Host | bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/b036f7w2 | @amsterdammed | 3.7K | |
| Victoria Gill | Co Host | bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/b036f7w2 | @vic_gill | 15.6K | |
| Adam Rutherford | Co Host | bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/b036f7w2 | @adamrutherford | ||
| Marnie Chesterton | Host | bbc.co.uk/programmes/p016tmt2/episodes/player | @amsterdammed | 3.7K | |
| Greg Foot | Host | bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/p07012sf | @gregfoot | 15.5K | |
| Dr Hannah Fry | Co Host | bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/b07dx75g | @fryrsquared | 248.8K | |
| Dara Ó Briain | Co Host | bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/b07dx75g | @daraobriain | ||
| Jim Al-Khalili | Host | bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/b015sqc7 | @jimalkhalili | ||
| Alex Lathbridge | Host | bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07shc5x/episodes/downloads | |||
| India Rakusen | Host | bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0bvg9nm/episodes/downloads | @indiarakusen | 9.8K |