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The Life Scientific Episodes Episode guide

Sir Michael Marmot

Jim Al-Khalili talks to Professor Sir Michael Marmot about his work on how stress kills.
Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Jim Al-Khalili talks to astronomer Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell.
Steven Pinker

Inside the mind of science writer and cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker.
Paul Nurse

Jim meets Paul Nurse, Nobel prize-winning geneticist and President of the Royal Society.
The Patrick Vallance Interview

Science and our future
Scientists in the Spotlight during the Pandemic

Jim Al-Khalili finds out how The Life Scientific has changed during the pandemic.
Jocelyn Bell Burnell on pulsars and sexism in physics

Jocelyn Bell Burnell talks pulsars and missing out on a Nobel Prize with Jim Al-Khalili.
Introducing… Uncharted with Hannah Fry

Tales of data and discovery with Hannah Fry.
29/03/2022

Professor Jim Al-Khalili talks to leading scientists about their life and work.

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