Dr Chris van Tulleken explores the incredible science of food.
2024: Chris van Tulleken - The Truth About Food homepage
Leading AI researcher Professor Mike Wooldridge tackles artificial intelligence.
2023: Professor Mike Wooldridge - The Truth about AI homepage
The secrets of forensic science revealed by Professor Dame Sue Black.
2022: Dame Sue Black homepage
Professor Jonathan Van-Tam and leading experts explore the microworld of viruses.
2021 homepage
Chris Jackson, Helen Czerski and Tara Shine present the 2020 Christmas Lectures.
2020: Planet Earth - A User's Guide homepage
Dr Hannah Fry reveals the hidden rules and patterns that govern every aspect of our world.
2019: Secrets & Lies - The Hidden Power of Maths homepage
Alice Roberts and Aoife McLysaght take a voyage through our evolutionary past and future.
2018: Who Am I? homepage
One of the fundamentals of human and animal life is the unstoppable urge to communicate.
2017: The Language of Life homepage
A journey through the invisible presence that drives everything around us - energy.
2016: Supercharged - Fuelling the Future homepage
Space doctor Kevin Fong takes us on a ride from launch to orbit and the cosmos beyond.
2015: How to Survive in Space homepage
How to hack, adapt and transform three British inventions to do extraordinary things.
2014: Sparks Will Fly - How to Hack your Home homepage
Dr Alison Woollard explores the frontiers of developmental biology.
2013: Life Fantastic homepage
Alchemist Dr Peter Wothers gives three lectures on air, water and earth.
2012: The Modern Alchemist homepage
Experimental psychologist Professor Bruce Hood delivers three lectures about the brain
2011 homepage
Dr Mark Miodownik gives a series of lectures on how size influences everything in science
2010 homepage
