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  1. Ride of My Life: The Story of the Bicycle

    Author Rob Penn charts the history of one of mankind's greatest inventions.

    BBC Four

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    Scientists Go To Hollywood

    Adam Rutherford talks to the scientists who've left the lab for Hollywood.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  3. The Gizmo Games

    Chris Ledgard looks at how sports science has redefined Olympic success for Team GB.

    BBC Radio 4

  4. Explosions: How We Shook the World

    Engineer Jem Stansfield investigates the science of explosions.

    BBC Four

  5. Landscape With Canals and Machines: The Legacy of LTC Rolt

    Hermione Cockburn on the writer who led us to value our industrial landscape - LTC Rolt.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  6. Roy Noble's First Click

    Roy Noble looks at how people around Wales are using computers to indulge their passions.

    BBC Two Wales

  7. The Joy of Stats

    Documentary exploring the history of statistics and how they can help society today.

    BBC Four

  8. My Father, the Bomb and Me

    Lisa Jardine tells the story of her famous father, scientist Jacob Bronowski.

    BBC Four

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    Ivory Tower

    Are close ties to industry distorting priorities of scientific research in universities?

    BBC Radio 4

  10. Mad and Bad: 60 Years of Science on TV

    A history of science TV in the UK, from The Sky At Night to Doctor Who.

    BBC Four

  11. The Search for Life: The Drake Equation

    Film about the equation used to estimate the number of extraterrestrial civilisations.

    BBC Four

  12.

    Beautiful Equations

    Matt Collings looks for the beauty and elegance in the most famous scientific equations.

    BBC Four

  13. How Science Changed Our World

    Robert Winston presents his top ten scientific breakthroughs of the past 50 years.

    BBC One

  14. Pleasure and Pain with Michael Mosley

    Michael Mosley attempts to understand how pleasure and pain work.

    BBC One

  15.

    The Smell of Money

    Materials scientist Mark Miodownik asks whether we could live without cash.

    BBC Radio 4

  16. What's in a Meme?

    Dr Susan Blackmore examines internet memes - from film parodies to kittens.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  17.

    The Biggest Radio on Earth

    Dr Lucie Green reports on plans for a radio telescope the size of a continent.

    BBC Radio 4

  18.

    The Communist Cosmos

    Angus Roxburgh explores the years when the Soviet Union ruled space.

    BBC Radio 4

  19. After Dolly: The Stem Cell Revolution

    Edi Stark discovers whether the pace of stem cell research is meeting expectation.

    BBC Radio Scotland

  20. Destination Titan

    The story of the space probe sent by British scientists to Titan, Saturn's largest moon.

    BBC Four

  21. The Crack Team

    Louise Welsh becomes a computer hacker for the day at Abertay University in Dundee.

    BBC Radio Scotland

  22.

    Egypt's Lost Cities

    A team heads to Egypt in an attempt to uncover lost cities beneath the sands.

    BBC One

  23. A Forensic Look at Infidelity

    Nicky Taylor delves into the murky world of extra marital affairs.

    BBC Radio 4

  24.

    Green Ears

    Professor Trevor Cox explores the world of sonic design applied to our outdoor spaces

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  25.

    The Power of Om

    Reverend Richard Coles explores the science of sacred sounds.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  26.

    Science: From Cradle to Grave

    Dr Ben Goldacre explores what happens when science takes the long view.

    BBC Radio 4

  27. Space Shuttle: The Final Mission

    Kevin Fong is granted access to Nasa in the last month of the space shuttle programme.

    BBC Two

  28.

    Giving the Critic Back His Voice

    Ricky Ross discovers how one Scottish company is giving back the freedom of speech.

    BBC Radio 4

  29. Transplant

    Showcasing the reality of multiple organ donation for the first time on UK television.

    BBC One

  30. Steve Jobs: Billion Dollar Hippy

    Evan Davis decodes the formula that took Apple from suburban garage to global supremacy.

    BBC Two

  31.

    The Oath

    What should be in a Hippocratic Oath for scientists?

    BBC Radio 4

  32. Jack and the Genetically Modified Beanstalk

    Stage and science collide to show how laboratory research could make fairytales a reality.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  33. Inside Fortress Bill

    Katie Derham looks at the philanthropic organisation the Gates Foundation.

    BBC Radio 4

  34.

    Thinking Streets

    Angela Saini explores shared space - an idea set to bring peace and harmony to our streets

    BBC Radio 4

  35. From The Valley to Vegas

    Factual programme taking a journey into the future of television.

    BBC News

  36. Titanic Town

    Remembering the tragedy of the Titanic and the creativity of the community which built it.

    BBC Radio Ulster

  37.

    Hurricane Rash

    Dr Kevin Fong looks at the birth of modern plastic surgery during World War II.

    BBC Radio 4

  38. Mapping Britain's Underworld

    Adam Hart-Davies reports on a major research project to map underground Britain.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  39. Roving Mars

    In 2003 NASA landed two robotic rovers on Mars. This is the story of the mission.

    BBC Two

  40.

    The Turing Solution

    Mathematician and code-breaker Alan Turing, and his role in the invention of the computer.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  41.

    Sniffing Out Danger

    Amber Marks explores the science of olfactory detection.

    BBC Radio 4

  42. Sniffing Out Danger

    Amber Marks explores the science of olfactory detection.

    BBC Radio Scotland

  43. Reclaiming the Sceptic

    The power of scepticism to both support and attack science.

    BBC Radio 4

  44. The Three Rocketeers

    How rocketeer Alan Bond and two colleagues built a new spacecraft - Skylon.

    BBC Four

  45. Rosh Hashanah: Science vs Religion

    Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks meets three leading non-believing scientists.

    BBC One

  46. Voyager: To the Final Frontier

    A look at NASA's Voyager programme as the two spacecraft leave the solar system.

    BBC Four

  47. Secret Universe: The Hidden Life of the Cell

    Revealing the machinery of the human cell system through the narrative of viral infection.

    BBC Two

  48.

    Open Sesame: Science in the Desert

    David Shukman travels to Jordan to find out if science can bring peace in the Middle East.

    BBC Radio 4

  49. For All Mankind

    Science writer Chris Riley examines the enduring legacy of the Apollo moon missions.

    BBC Radio 4

  50. Sir Patrick Moore: Astronomer, Broadcaster and Eccentric

    A look back at the extraordinary life of Sir Patrick Moore.

    BBC One

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