BBC Radio 4 - The Life Scientific

Amoret Whitaker

Amoret Whitaker talks about insects and their role in helping solve crimes.

2012 Nobel Prize winner John Gurdon on cloning a frog decades before Dolly the Sheep.

Jared Diamond on gall bladders, global history and the birds of Papua New Guinea.

Jim Al-Khalili and Prof Monica Grady weigh up the evidence for life on Mars.

Jim Al-Khalili interviews Professor Hugh Montgomery about the gene for fitness.

Jim Al-Khalili talks to the next government chief scientific advisor, Sir Mark Walport.

Jim Al-Khalili meets Prof Sunetra Gupta, a scientist and novelist.

Jim Al-Khalili interviews Prof David Nutt about research into drugs and the brain.

Jim Al-Khalili discovers why Andrea Sella's chemistry demonstrations are filling theatres.

Jim Al-Khalili meets evolutionary biologist and author Prof Richard Dawkins.