Discovery Episodes Available now
Lead—In Their Element
6/8 The impact of the use and abuse of lead on humanity.
The Power of Sloth
Lucy Cooke discovers the joy of sloth and sloths and the benefits of being really slow.
Pain of Torture—The Anatomy of Pain
4/4 Does knowing that someone is inflicting pain on you deliberately make the pain worse?
Controlling Pain—The Anatomy of Pain
3/4 How do brains control pain? Irene Tracey asks can we distance ourselves from agony
Knowing Pain—The Anatomy of Pain
2/4 Phantom limb pain, babies’ pain, people without pain, help understand the nature of pain.
Seeing Pain—The Anatomy of Pain
1/4 Why do some people feel more pain than others and what happens in the brain during surgery
Humphry Davy—Science Stories: Series 4
4/4 The story of how Humphry Davy discovered laughing gas in 1799.
Lise Meitner—Science Stories: Series 4
3/4 How physicist Lise Meitner unlocked the science of the atom bomb that cost Hitler dearly
The Day the Earth Moved
How scientists learned the earth’s crust is made up of shifting plates.
Maria Merian—Science Stories: Series 4
2/4 How a 13-year old girl mapped metamorphosis in the 1600s. Naomi Alderman presents
