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Was the Nuclear Bomb Inevitable? With Frank Close

Use code SQUARED at the link below to get an exclusive 60% off an annual Incogni plan: https://incogni.com/squared --- How did the most powerful force in history begin with a faint smudge on a photographic plate? In this episode, Adam McCauley speaks to physicist and award-winning science write…

Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle (Archive Episode)

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the German physicist who, at the age of 23 and while still a student, effectively created quantum mechanics for which he later won the Nobel Prize. Werner Heisenberg made this breakthrough in a paper in 1925 when, rather than starting with an idea of where atomic par…

Pauli's Exclusion Principle (Archive Episode)

After 27 years, Melvyn Bragg has decided to step down from the In Our Time presenter’s chair. With over a thousand episodes to choose from, he has selected just six that capture the huge range and depth of the subjects he and his experts have tackled. In this fifth of his choices, we hear Melvyn Br…

The Sunday 7 - The biggest Science and Tech stories from January to June 2025

The Smart 7 is an award winning daily podcast, in association with METRO that gives you everything you need to know in 7 minutes, at 7am, 7 days a week... With over 19 million downloads and consistently charting, including as No. 1 News Podcast on Spotify, we're a trusted source for people every da…

The Surprising, Actual Story of Genesis 1-2

In modern Western culture, we have two very different narratives swirling around the first two pages of the Bible. In the first narrative, the creation story in Genesis 1-2 represents a literal seven days, and this all happened only a few thousand years ago. In the second narrative, earth and its i…

From the Theatre: What is a solar eclipse? - with Frank Close

What is a solar eclipse? How is it safe to watch? And what other types of eclipses are there? This month, we revisit Frank Close's talk from the theatre where he explored what causes solar eclipses, and ahead of the first total solar eclipse visible from the UK since 1999. Frank Close a particle ph…

True Spies Classic: The Klaus Fuchs Effect | WW2

As a World War rages, humanity stands on the precipice of a new era in warfare. The atomic age is dawning - and Earth's great powers are determined to secure their place in it. In this classic episode of True Spies, Sophia Di Martino tells the story of the scientist who helped Soviet Russia build …

Spectator Out Loud: John Connolly, Gavin Mortimer, Dorian Lynskey, Steve Morris and Lloyd Evans

On this week’s Spectator Out Loud: John Connolly argues that Labour should look to Andy Burnham for inspiration (1:51); Gavin Mortimer asks if Britain is ready for France’s most controversial novel – Jean Raspail’s The Camp of the Saints (4:55); Dorian Lynskey looks at the race to build the first n…