# The Life Scientific

The Life Scientific is a BBC Radio 4 science programme, presented by Jim Al-Khalili, in which each episode is dedicated to the biography and work of a living scientist. The programme consists of an interview between Al-Khalili and the featured scientist, with others contributing anecdotes.
It is broadcast on Tuesday mornings in the UK, and is available online and via BBC Sounds, as is an archive of past episodes. In October 2021 the programme reached its 10-year anniversary with discussion between Ottoline Leyser, Paul Nurse, Christopher Jackson and Sue Black on the topic of 'What makes a scientist?'.

## Guests

Guests have included:
| Number | Name | Date | Topic |
| 1 | Paul Nurse | 11 October 2011 | Biology, winning the Nobel Prize and being President of the Royal Society |
| 2 | Steven Pinker | 18 October 2011 | Science writing and cognitive psychology |
| 3 | Jocelyn Bell Burnell | 25 October 2011 | Astrophyics and not winning the Nobel Prize |
| 4 | Michael Marmot | 1 November 2011 | How stress kills |
| 5 | Colin Blakemore | 8 November 2011 | Neuroscience |
| 6 | Molly Stevens | 15 November 2011 | Growing human bones in a test tube |
| 7 | Nicola Clayton | 22 November 2011 | The intelligence of birds |
| 8 | John Sulston | 29 November 2011 | Biology |
| 9 | Uta Frith | 6 December 2011 | Changing how we view brain disorders |
| 10 | Tim Hunt | 13 December 2011 | Molecular biology and winning the Nobel Prize |
| 11 | Robert Winston | 20 December 2011 | IVF, the House of Lords, and scientists' ethical responsibility |
| 12 | Colin Pillinger | 27 December 2011 | Life on Mars |
| 13 | Robin Murray | 7 February 2012 | The cause of schizophrenia |
| 14 | Chris Stringer | 14 February 2012 | Paleoanthropology and who our ancestors were |
| 15 | Tony Ryan | 21 February 2012 | The future of nanotechnology |
| 16 | Iain Chalmers | 28 February 2012 | Health services |
| 17 | Martin Rees | 6 March 2012 | The multiverse |
| 18 | John Lawton | 13 March 2012 | Ecology |
| 19 | Tejinder Virdee | 20 March 2012 | The search for the Higgs boson |
| 20 | Angela Gallop | 27 March 2012 | Forensic science |
| 21 | James Lovelock | 8 May 2012 | The Gaia hypothesis, microwave ovens |
| 22 | Frances Ashcroft | 15 May 2012 | The link between blood sugar and insulin |
| 23 | Lloyd Peck | 22 May 2012 | Giant sea spiders |
| 24 | Barbara Sahakian | 29 May 2012 | Neurotransmitters |
| 25 | Bob May | 5 June 2012 | Public trust |
| 26 | John Pickett | 12 June 2012 | GM wheat |
| 27 | Steve Jones | 7 August 2012 | Snail studies |
| 28 | Pat Wolseley | 14 August 2012 | Her obsession with lichen |
| 29 | Martin Siegert | 21 August 2012 | Under the Antarctic ice |
| 30 | Ann Dowling | 28 August 2012 | Silent aircraft |
| 31 | Richard Dawkins | 4 September 2012 | Being a biologist and author |
| 32 | Andrea Sella | 11 September 2012 | Why my chemistry demonstrations are filling theatres |
| 33 | David Nutt | 18 September 2012 | Research into drugs and the brain |
| 34 | Sunetra Gupta | 25 September 2012 | Being a scientist and novelist |
| 35 | Mark Walport | 2 October 2012 | Being Government Chief Scientific Advisor |
| 36 | Hugh Montgomery | 9 October 2012 | The gene for fitness |
| 37 | Monica Grady | 16 October 2012 | Life on Mars |
| 38 | Jared Diamond | 4 December 2012 | Gall bladders, global history, and the birds of Papua New Guinea |
| 39 | John Gurdon | 18 December 2012 | Cloning a frog decades before Dolly the Sheep |
| 40 | Amoret Whitaker | 8 January 2013 | Insects and their role in helping solve crimes |
| 41 | Robert Mair | 15 January 2013 | Tunnelling under Big Ben, Crossrail, and engineering for the future |
| 42 | Annette Karmiloff-Smith | 22 January 2013 | Should babies under two watch TV? |
| 43 | Noel Sharkey | 29 January 2013 | Robotics and psychology |
| 44 | Valerie Beral | 5 February 2013 | Breast cancer |
| 45 | Alan Watson | 19 February 2013 | His quest to discover the source of cosmic rays |
| 46 | Sue Ion | 26 February 2013 | Working in the nuclear industry |
| 47 | Nancy Rothwell | 7 May 2013 | Neuroscience |
| 48 | Sanjeev Gupta | 14 May 2013 | What links the English Channel to valleys on Mars? |
| 49 | John Krebs | 21 May 2013 | Birds, foot and mouth disease and badgers |
| 50 | Linda Partridge | 28 May 2013 | The science of longevity |
| 51 | Athene Donald | 4 June 2013 | The physics behind everyday stuff |
| 52 | Ewan Birney | 11 June 2013 | Deciphering the human genome and junk DNA |
| 53 | David Spiegelhalter | 18 June 2013 | Risk and uncertainty |
| 54 | Elizabeth Stokoe | 25 June 2013 | Studying real-life conversations |
| 55 | Russell Foster | 20 August 2013 | Circadian rhythms and jet lag |
| 56 | Joanna Haigh | 27 August 2013 | Climate |
| 57 | Mark Lythgoe | 3 September 2013 | Medical imaging and mountain climbing |
| 58 | Michael Benton | 10 September 2013 | Digging up dinosaurs in remote places |
| 59 | Ian Stewart | 17 September 2013 | Sci-fi and popularising maths |
| 60 | Sophie Scott | 24 September 2013 | The science of laughter |
| 61 | Jenny Graves | 1 October 2013 | Kangaroos and the death of the Y chromosome |
| 62 | Wendy Hall | 8 October 2013 | The development of the web |
| 63 | Peter Higgs | 18 February 2014 | The real story of the Higgs boson |
| 64 | Sue Black | 25 February 2014 | Identifying human bodies |
| 65 | Vikram Patel | 4 March 2014 | Global mental health |
| 66 | Mark Miodownik | 11 March 2014 | Nuclear weapons, 3D printers and smart materials |
| 67 | Anne Glover | 18 March 2014 | Glow-in-the-dark bacteria and advising ministers |
| 68 | Alf Adams | 25 March 2014 | His small idea that changed the world (the strained-layer quantum-well laser) |
| 69 | Veronica van Heyningen | 1 April 2014 | The gene that builds the eye |
| 70 | Julia Slingo | 8 April 2014 | Being chief scientist at the Met Office |
| 71 | Michael Rutter | 3 June 2014 | Child psychiatry |
| 72 | Janet Hemingway | 10 June 2014 | Malaria and the coming of insecticide resistance |
| 73 | Chris Lintott | 17 June 2014 | Crowd sourced astronomy and Galaxy Zoo |
| 74 | Sandra Knapp | 24 June 2014 | Her adventures collecting plants in South America |
| 75 | Christopher Llewellyn Smith | 1 July 2014 | Nuclear fusion |
| 76 | Zoe Shipton | 8 July 2014 | Fracking |
| 77 | Jeremy Farrar | 15 July 2014 | Fighting viruses |
| 78 | Carol Robinson | 22 July 2014 | Chemistry |
| 79 | Brian Cox | 23 September 2014 | Quantum mechanics |
| 80 | Jackie Akhavan | 30 September 2014 | Explosives |
| 81 | Elspeth Garman | 7 October 2014 | Crystallography |
| 82 | Chris Toumazou | 14 October 2014 | Inventing medical devices |
| 83 | Margaret Boden | 21 October 2014 | Artificial intelligence |
| 84 | Richard Fortey | 28 October 2014 | Fossils |
| 85 | Sally Davies | 4 November 2014 | Public health |
| 86 | Dave Goulson | 11 November 2014 | Bees |
| 87 | John O'Keefe | 10 March 2015 | Memory |
| 88 | Matt Taylor | 17 March 2015 | The Rosetta space mission |
| 89 | Sarah-Jayne Blakemore | 24 March 2015 | Teenage brains |
| 90 | Jane Francis | 31 March 2015 | Antarctica |
| 91 | Steve Shirley | 7 April 2015 | Computer coding |
| 92 | Nigel Shadbolt | 14 April 2015 | The World Wide Web |
| 93 | Susan Jebb | 21 April 2015 | Nutrition |
| 94 | Anil Seth | 16 June 2015 | Consciousness |
| 95 | Kate Jones | 23 June 2015 | Bats and biodiversity |
| 96 | Henry Marsh | 30 June 2015 | Brain surgery |
| 97 | Dorothy Bishop | 7 July 2015 | Language disorders |
| 98 | Carlos Frenk | 14 July 2015 | Dark matter |
| 99 | Niamh Nic Daéid | 21 July 2015 | Forensic science |
| 100 | E. O. Wilson | 28 July 2015 | Ants and evolution |
| 101 | Geoff Palmer | 4 August 2015 | Brewing |
| 102 | Carol Black | 6 October 2015 | Public health |
| 103 | Danielle George | 13 October 2015 | Electronics |
| 104 | Robert Plomin | 20 October 2015 | The genetics of intelligence |
| 105 | Patrick Vallance | 3 November 2015 | Pharmaceuticals |
| 106 | Kathy Willis | 10 November 2015 | Botany |
| 107 | Paul Younger | 17 November 2015 | Energy for the future |
| 108 | Peter Piot | 9 February 2016 | Tackling ebola and HIV |
| 109 | Naomi Climer | 16 February 2016 | Engineering |
| 110 | Nick Lane | 23 February 2016 | The origin of life on earth |
| 111 | George Davey Smith | 1 March 2016 | Health inequalities |
| 112 | Venki Ramakrishnan | 8 March 2016 | Ribosomes |
| 113 | Helen Sharman | 15 March 2016 | Being an astronaut |
| 114 | Carolyn Roberts | 22 March 2016 | Flood control |
| 115 | Lawrence Krauss | 31 May 2016 | Dark energy |
| 116 | Marcus du Sautoy | 7 June 2016 | Mathematics |
| 117 | Sheila Rowan | 14 June 2016 | Gravitational waves |
| 118 | Nick Davies | 21 June 2016 | Cuckoos |
| 119 | Hazel Rymer | 28 June 2016 | Volcanoes |
| 120 | Faraneh Vargha-Khadem | 5 July 2016 | Memory |
| 121 | Georgina Mace | 12 July 2016 | Threatened species |
| 122 | Trevor Cox | 19 July 2016 | Sound |
| 123 | Ian Wilmut | 4 October 2016 | Dolly the Sheep |
| 124 | Frans de Waal | 11 October 2016 | Chimpanzees |
| 125 | Lynne Boddy | 15 November 2016 | Fungi |
| 126 | Roger Penrose | 22 November 2016 | Black holes, quantum mechanics, consciousness |
| 127 | Julia Higgins | 29 November 2016 | Polymers |
| 128 | Richard Morris | 6 December 2016 | How we know where we are |
| 129 | Neil deGrasse Tyson | 20 December 2016 | Pluto |
| 130 | Michele Dougherty | 10 January 2017 | Saturn |
| 131 | Jan Zalasiewicz | 17 January 2017 | The Age of Man |
| 132 | Sadaf Farooqi | 24 January 2017 | What makes us fat |
| 133 | Alison Smith | 31 January 2017 | Algae |
| 134 | Sean Carroll | 7 February 2017 | How time and space began |
| 135 | Simon Wessely | 14 February 2017 | Unexplained medical syndromes |
| 136 | Alan Winfield | 21 February 2017 | Robot ethics |
| 137 | Alison Woollard | 28 February 2017 | What she has learnt from mutant worms |
| 138 | Daniel Dennett | 4 April 2017 | The evolution of the human brain |
| 139 | Nick Fraser | 11 April 2017 | Triassic reptiles |
| 140 | Liz Sockett | 18 April 2017 | Friendly killer bacteria |
| 141 | Graham MacGregor | 25 April 2017 | Tackling the demons in our diet |
| 142 | Ann Clarke | 2 May 2017 | The Frozen Ark |
| 143 | Fay Dowker | 9 May 2017 | A new theory of space-time |
| 144 | Ottoline Leyser | 16 May 2017 | How plants decide what to do |
| 145 | Tim O'Brien | 23 May 2017 | Transient stars and science and music festivals |
| 146 | Tamsin Mather | 30 May 2017 | Volcanology |
| 147 | Jennifer Doudna | 19 September 2017 | Gene editing |
| 148 | Tracey Rogers | 26 September 2017 | Leopard seals and Antarctica |
| 149 | Lucie Green | 3 October 2017 | The Sun |
| 150 | Steven Cowley | 10 October 2017 | Nuclear Fusion |
| 151 | Tim Birkhead | 17 October 2017 | Bird promiscuity |
| 152 | Ellen Stofan | 24 October 2017 | Being NASA Chief Scientist |
| 153 | Adrian Thomas | 31 October 2017 | The mechanics of flight |
| 154 | Eben Upton | 16 January 2018 | Raspberry Pi |
| 155 | Eugenia Cheng | 23 January 2018 | The mathematics of mathematics |
| 156 | Wendy Barclay | 30 January 2018 | The flu virus |
| 157 | Richard Henderson | 13 February 2018 | The molecules of life |
| 158 | John Burn | 20 February 2018 | The genetics of cancer |
| 159 | Ailie MacAdam | 27 February 2018 | The biggest construction project in Europe |
| 160 | Clare Grey | 6 March 2018 | Big battery challenge |
| 161 | Steve Reicher | 13 March 2018 | Psychology of crowds |
| 162 | Callum Roberts | 1 May 2018 | Marine conservation |
| 163 | Carlo Rovelli | 8 May 2018 | Why time is not what it seems |
| 164 | Caroline Dean | 15 May 2018 | Genetic secrets of flowering |
| 165 | Catherine Hobaiter | 22 May 2018 | Communication in apes |
| 166 | John Taylor | 29 May 2018 | Being an inventor |
| 167 | Sheena Cruickshank | 5 June 2018 | The wonders of the human immune system |
| 168 | Frank Close | 12 June 2018 | Particle physics |
| 169 | Rachel Mills | 19 June 2018 | Exploring the sea floor |
| 170 | Jacqueline McGlade | 23 October 2018 | Monitoring the environment from space |
| 171 | Noel Fitzpatrick | 30 October 2018 | Becoming a supervet |
| 172 | Suzanne O'Sullivan | 6 November 2018 | Detective of the mind |
| 173 | Michael Stratton | 13 November 2018 | Cancer genes |
| 174 | Caroline Hargrove | 20 November 2018 | Formula One |
| 175 | Alastair Hay | 27 November 2018 | Banning chemical weapons |
| 176 | Maggie Aderin-Pocock | 4 December 2018 | Sky at Night presenter |
| 177 | Clive Oppenheimer | 11 December 2018 | Volcanic offerings of our angry earth |
| 178 | Jim Al-Khalili | 5 February 2019 | HIS life scientific: Interviewed by Adam Rutherford |
| 179 | Sue Black | 12 February 2019 | Women in Technology |
| 180 | Gregory Winter | 19 February 2019 | 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry |
| 181 | Gwen Adshead | 26 February 2019 | The minds of violent offenders |
| 182 | Donna Strickland | 5 March 2019 | 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics |
| 183 | Ken Gabriel | 12 March 2019 | Why your Smartphone is Smart |
| 184 | Corinne Le Quéré | 19 March 2019 | Global carbon cycle |
| 185 | Paul Davies | 26 March 2019 | Origin of life and the evolution of cancer |
| 186 | Irene Tracey | 2 April 2019 | Pain in the brain |
| 187 | Richard Peto | 9 April 2019 | Why smoking kills but quitting saves lives |
| 188 | Erica McAlister | 16 April 2019 | The beauty of flies |
| 189 | Richard Thompson | 25 June 2019 | Plastic pollution |
| 190 | Ewine van Dishoeck | 2 July 2019 | Cosmic chemistry |
| 191 | Turi King | 9 July 2019 | Ancient DNA |
| 192 | Katherine Joy | 16 July 2019 | Lunar rock |
| 193 | Robin Dunbar | 23 July 2019 | Why we have friends |
| 194 | Jonathan Ball | 30 July 2019 | Arms race against viruses |
| 195 | Richard Wiseman | 1 October 2019 | Lying, luck and the paranormal |
| 196 | Anne Magurran | 8 October 2019 | How to measure biodiversity |
| 197 | Martha Clokie | 15 October 2019 | The viruses that could improve our health |
| 198 | Adrian Owen | 22 October 2019 | Scanning for awareness in the injured brain |
| 199 | Saiful Islam | 29 October 2019 | Materials to power the 21st century |
| 200 | Demis Hassabis | 5 November 2019 | Artificial intelligence |
| 201 | Elizabeth Fisher | 12 November 2019 | Chromosomes in mice and men |
| 202 | Patricia Wiltshire | 7 January 2020 | How pollen can solve crimes |
| 203 | Susannah Maidment | 14 January 2020 | Stegosaurs |
| 204 | Peter Fonagy | 28 January 2020 | A revolution in mental health care |
| 205 | Peter Ratcliffe | 4 February 2020 | 2019 Nobel Prize winner for Physiology or Medicine |
| 206 | Polina Bayvel | 11 February 2020 | Optical communications |
| 207 | Myles Allen | 18 February 2020 | Understanding climate change |
| 208 | Anya Hurlbert | 25 February 2020 | Seeing colour |
| 209 | Matthew Cobb | 3 March 2020 | How we detect smells |
| 210 | Brian Greene | 28 April 2020 | How the universe is made of string |
| 211 | Jim McDonald | 5 May 2020 | Power networks |
| 212 | Debbie Pain | 12 May 2020 | Conserving globally threatened bird species |
| 213 | Frank Kelly | 10 March 2021 | Air pollution |
| 214 | Liz Seward | 26 May 2020 | Space science |
| 215 | Jane Goodall | 2 June 2020 | Life with chimpanzees in the Gombe |
| 216 | Emma Bunce | 9 June 2020 | Space science - gas giants of the outer solar system |
| 217 | Clifford Stott | 16 June 2020 | Riot prevention |
| 218 | Alice Roberts | 4 August 2020 | Bones |
| 219 | Andy Fabian | 11 August 2020 | Black holes |
| 220 | Dale Sanders | 18 August 2020 | Feeding the world |
| 221 | Heather Koldewey | 25 August 2020 | Marine conservation |
| 222 | Francesca Happé | 1 September 2020 | Autism |
| 223 | Steve Haake | 8 September 2020 | Technology, sport and health |
| 224 | Sarah Gilbert | 15 September 2020 | Developing a vaccine for Covid-19 |
| 225 | Neil Ferguson | 22 September 2020 | Modelling Covid-19 |
| 226 | Chris Jackson | 12 January 2021 | Sustainable geology |
| 227 | Catherine Noakes | 19 January 2021 | Making buildings Covid-safe |
| 228 | Giles Yeo | 26 January 2021 | How our genes can make us fat |
| 229 | Anne Johnson | 2 February 2021 | The importance of public health |
| 230 | Jane Hurst | 16 February 2021 | The secret life of mice |
| 231 | Richard Bentall | 23 February 2021 | The causes of mental ill health |
| 232 | Sarah Bridle | 2 March 2021 | The carbon footprint of food |
| 233 | Mark Spencer | 9 March 2021 | How plants solve crimes |
| 234 | Theresa Marteau | 13 April 2021 | How to change behaviour |
| 235 | Martin Sweeting | 20 April 2021 | Microsatellites in space |
| 236 | Jane Clarke | 27 April 2021 | Protein Folding |
| 237 | Peter Goadsby | 4 May 2021 | Migraine |
| 238 | Helen Scales | 11 May 2021 | Marine conservation |
| 239 | Nira Chamberlain | 18 May 2021 | How mathematics can solve real-world problems |
| 240 | Mike Tipton | 25 May 2021 | How our bodies respond to extreme conditions |
| 241 | Tamsin Edwards | 1 June 2021 | Uncertainty in climate science |
| 242 | Hannah Fry | 7 September 2021 | The power and perils of big data |
| 243 | David Eagleman | 14 September 2021 | Why reality is an illusion |
| 244 | Brenda Boardman | 21 September 2021 | Making our homes energy efficient |
| 245 | Derk-Jan Dijk | 28 September 2021 | The importance of sleep |
| 246 | Hannah Cloke | 5 October 2021 | Predicting floods |
| 247 | Jim Al-Khalili | 12 October 2021 | The Life Scientific at 10: What makes a scientist? Talking with Ottoline Leyser, Paul Nurse, Christopher Jackson and Sue Black. |
| 248 | Tim Spector | 19 October 2021 | Personalised diets for long term health |
| 249 | Tim Clutton-Brock | 23 October 2021 | Meerkats, red deer and evolution |
| 250 | Sharon Peacock | 2 November 2021 | Hunting pandemic variants of concern |
| 251 | Julia Shaw | 22 February 2022 | Memories that aren't true |
| 252 | Shankar Balasubramanian | 1 March 2022 | Decoding DNA |
| 253 | Stephen L. Brusatte | 8 March 2022 | The fall of dinosaurs and the rise of mammals |
| 254 | Ben Garrod | 22 March 2022 | Conservation and extinction |
| 255 | Chi Onwurah | 24 May 2022 | Why engineering is a caring profession |
| 256 | Pete Smith | 31 May 2022 | Why soil matters |
| 257 | Jacinta Tan | 7 June 2022 | Anorexia nervosa and the mind |
| 258 | Adam Hart | 14 June 2022 | Ants, bees and insect burgers |
| 259 | Vlatko Vedral | 21 June 2022 | The universe as quantum information |
| 260 | Martin Landray | 28 June 2022 | Saving over a million lives |
| 261 | Frances Arnold | 6 September 2022 | From taxi driver to Nobel Prize |
| 262 | Judith Bunbury | 13 September 2022 | The shifting River Nile in the time of the Pharaohs |
| 263 | Emily A. Holmes | 20 September 2022 | How to treat trauma |
| 264 | Daphne Koller | 27 September 2022 | Can computers discover new medicines? |
| 265 | Tim Lamont | 4 October 2022 | The sounds of coral reefs |
| 266 | Leon Barron | 11 October 2022 | Why study sewage? |
| 267 | Bambos Kyriacou | 18 October 2022 | A passion for fruit flies |
| 268 | Chris Elliott | 10 January 2023 | Fighting food fraud |
| 269 | Pamela Shaw | 17 January 2023 | Research battle against motor neurone disease |
| 270 | Rebecca Kilner | 24 January 2023 | Beetle behaviours and evolution |
| 271 | Clifford V. Johnson | 31 January 2023 | Making sense of black holes and movie plots |
| 272 | Adrian Smith | 7 February 2023 | The power of Bayesian statistics |
| 273 | Haley Gomez | 21 February 2023 | Cosmic dust |
| 274 | Danny Altmann | 28 February 2023 | How T cells fight disease |
| 275 | Julia King | 7 March 2023 | Manipulating metals and decarbonising transport |
| 276 | Marie Johnston | 14 March 2023 | Health psychology and the power of behavioural shifts |
| 277 | James A. Jackson | 21 March 2023 | Understanding earthquakes and building resilience |
| 278 | Julie Williams | 28 March 2023 | Alzheimer's disease |
| 279 | Andre Geim | 23 May 2023 | Levitating frogs, graphene and 2D materials |
| 280 | Gillian Reid | 30 May 2023 | Making chemistry count |
| 281 | Bruce Malamud | 6 June 2023 | Modelling risk for natural hazards |
| 282 | Anne-Marie Imafidon | 13 June 2023 | Fighting for diversity and equality in science |
| 283 | Deborah Greaves | 8 August 2023 | Wave power and offshore renewable energy |
| 284 | Gideon Henderson | 16 August 2023 | Climate 'clocks' and dating ice ages |
| 285 | Chris Barratt (scientist) | 23 August 2023 | Head-banging sperm and a future male contraceptive pill |
| 286 | Colin Humphreys | 29 August 2023 | Electron microscopes, and the thinnest material in the world |
| 286 | Bahija Jallal | 5 September 2023 | Biotech revolution in cancer therapies |
| 287 | Paul Murdin | 12 September 2023 | The first ever identification of a black hole |
| 288 | Alexandre Antonelli | 19 September 2023 | Learning from nature's biodiversity to adapt to climate change |
| 289 | Edward Witten | 31 October 2023 | M-Theory, the leading contender for a 'theory of everything' |
| 290 | Sarah Blaffer Hrdy | 7 November 2023 | Human evolution and parenthood |
| 291 | Sarah Harper | 14 November 2023 | How population change is remodelling societies. |
| 292 | Michael Berry | 21 November 2023 | Phenomena in physics' borderlands |
| 293 | Cathie Sudlow | 28 November 2023 | Data in healthcare |
| 294 | Harshad Bhadeshia | 5 December 2023 | Choreography of metals |
| 295 | Mercedes Maroto-Valer | 12 December 2023 | Making carbon dioxide useful |
| 296 | Michael Wooldridge | 19 December 2023 | AI and sentient robots |
| 297 | Jonathan Van-Tam | 12 March 2024 | Covid communication and the power of football analogies |
| 298 | Charles Godfray | 19 March 2024 | Parasitic wasps and the race to feed nine billion people |
| 299 | Sheila Willis | 26 March 2024 | Using science to help solve crime |
| 300 | Nick Longrich | 2 April 2024 | Discovering new dinosaurs from overlooked bones |
| 301 | Fiona Rayment | 9 April 2024 | Applications of nuclear for net zero and beyond |
| 302 | Hannah Critchlow | 16 April 2024 | The connected brain |
| 303 | Mike Edmunds | 23 April 2024 | The chemical make-up of galaxies and decoding the Antikythera Mechanism |
| 304 | Conny Aerts | 24 June 2024 | Star vibrations and following your dreams |
| 305 | Anne Child | 2 July 2024 | Marfan syndrome and love at first sight |
| 306 | Janet Treasure | 9 July 2024 | Eating disorders and the quest for answers |
| 307 | Raymond Schinazi | 16 July 2024 | Revolutionising treatments for killer viruses |
| 308 | Dawn Bonfield | 23 July 2024 | Inclusive engineering, sustainable solutions, and why she once tried to leave the sector for good |
| 309 | Vicky Tolfrey | 30 July 2024 | Parasport research and childhood dreams of the Olympics |
| 310 | Kip Thorne | 6 August 2024 | Black holes, Nobel Prizes, and taking physics to Hollywood |
| 311 | Bill Gates | 20 August 2024 | Vaccines, conspiracy theories, and the pleasures of pickleball |
| 312 | Darren Croft | 27 August 2024 | Killer whale matriarchs and the menopause |
| 313 | Ijeoma Uchegbu | 4 September 2024 | Using nanoparticles to transform medicines |
| 314 | Peter Stott | 10 September 2024 | Climate change deniers and Italian inspiration |
| 315 | Rosalie David | 17 September 2024 | The science of Egyptian mummies |
| 316 | Anna Korre | 24 September 2024 | Capturing carbon dioxide and defying expectations |
| 317 | Tim Peake | 31 December 2024 | His journey to becoming an astronaut and science in space |
| 318 | Sir Magdi Yacoub | 18 February 2025 | Pioneering heart transplant surgery |
| 319 | Tori Herridge | 25 February 2025 | Ancient dwarf elephants and frozen mammoths |
| 320 | Doyne Farmer | 4 March 2025 | Making sense of chaos for a better world |
| 321 | Jonathan Shepherd | 11 March 2025 | A career as a crime-fighting surgeon |
| 322 | Jacqueline McKinley | 18 March 2025 | Unearthing bones and stories at Britain's ancient burial sites |