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Nov 2002
*
59
29.30
Mixed Feelings
Hearing Colours, Eating Sounds
Nov 2002
*
59
30.00
Pale yellow Cs, turquoise Thursdays and wine-flavoured Vs
Hearing Colours, Eating Sounds
Oct 2003
*
52
43.00
James Clerk Maxwell
In Our Time
Dec 2004
*
49
37.25
Publish or be Damned
Science
Mar 2003
*
36
14.52
Screws and screwdrivers
Science of DIY
Mar 2003
*
36
14.55
Nuts, bolts and spanners
Science of DIY
Mar 2003
*
36
14.55
Hammers and Nails
Science of DIY
Mar 2003
*
36
14.43
Chisels and Saws
Science of DIY
Mar 2003
*
36
15.00
The Wheelbarrow
Science of DIY
Dec 2002
*
35
25.30
The Mozart Effect
Science
Jul 2002
*
35
29.17
One in a Billion
The Lopsided Universe
Jul 2002
*
35
29.47
Life Through the Looking Glass
The Lopsided Universe
Jul 2002
*
35
29.03
Lucifer's Legacy
The Lopsided Universe
Jun 2002
*
35
29.13
Life in Silicon Valley : Part 1
Silicon Valley USA
Jun 2002
*
35
28.21
Life in Silicon Valley : Part 2
Silicon Valley USA
Jun 2002
*
35
28.10
Life in Silicon Valley : Part 3
Silicon Valley USA
Jun 2002
*
35
28.41
Life in Silicon Valley : Part 4
Silicon Valley USA
Nov 2002
*
34
28.10
Tripping the Light Fantastic
Science
Oct 2002
*
34
14.15
Water on the Brain
Electronic Brains
Oct 2002
*
34
14.09
Then we took the roof off
Electronic Brains
Oct 2002
*
34
14.00
Saluting the Moose
Electronic Brains
Sep 2002
*
34
13.59
LEO the Lyons Computer
Electronic Brains
Aug 2003
*
33
27.41
Lifelong Thinking
Think About It
Jul 2003
*
33
27.40
The programme with no name
Think About It
Jul 2003
*
33
27.09
Early Thinkers
Think About It
Mar 2002
*
33
28.33
The 'laws' that describe technological progress
Science
Apr 2004
*
32
28.46
The Art Of Indecision (Programme 2)
Science
Apr 2004
*
32
28.58
The Art Of Indecision (Programme 1)
Science
Jan 2003
*
31
14.36
Oops, I've dropped an exotic particle
A Brief History of the End of Everything
Jan 2003
*
31
14.13
The universe is expanding - we're all doomed
A Brief History of the End of Everything
Jan 2003
*
31
14.53
Lets go round again
A Brief History of the End of Everything
Jan 2003
*
31
14.46
The universe will crash - we're all doomed
A Brief History of the End of Everything
Jan 2003
*
31
14.52
It's OK, the universe is eternal
A Brief History of the End of Everything
Dec 2003
*
24
43.00
Wittgenstein - the man who solved philosophy
In Our Time
Mar 2005
*
19
28.59
The Intellectual
Thinking Allowed
Sep 2004
*
17
29.12
Conflict Landmarks
Thinking Allowed
Dec 2002
*
16
30.00
A Small Slice Of Tranquility (Part 2)
Science
Dec 2002
*
16
30.00
A Small Slice Of Tranquility (Part 1)
Science
Jul 2004
*
15
28.59
Tattoos and Zoos
Thinking Allowed
Sep 2004
*
14
28.58
The Making Of The Modern Kitchen (and Electronic Tagging)
Thinking Allowed
Dec 2003
*
12
28.59
Zeitgeist - The Spirit of the Age
Thinking Allowed
Mar 2004
*
11
29.37
The Call of the Mall
Thinking Allowed
Feb 2004
*
11
28.59
21st Century Office
Thinking Allowed
Apr 2004
*
10
28.59
Utopia - Photographing funerals - Clubbing
Thinking Allowed
May 2004
*
9
28.59
A Place On The Corner and Ethnography
Thinking Allowed
Apr 2004
*
9
30.00
Dismantling Mantelpieces - The Rules Of English Behaviour
Thinking Allowed
Apr 2004
*
9
28.46
Globalisation of communication - Sound
Thinking Allowed
Apr 2004
*
9
29.40
Performing Tourist Photography
Thinking Allowed
Jan 2004
*
9
28.59
Security Stuff
Thinking Allowed
Dec 2003
*
9
28.59
The micro-landscape of the motorway service station
Thinking Allowed
Nov 2003
*
9
28.59
Unpopular Culture: The Ritual of Complaint in a British Bank
Thinking Allowed
Nov 2003
*
9
28.59
Citizen-Consumers: Confusions and Challenges
Thinking Allowed
Oct 2003
*
9
28.59
Memorials and Rememberance
Thinking Allowed
Jul 2004
*
7
15.00
Henry Thomas De La Beche and Roderick Impey Murchison
Great Arguments
Jul 2004
*
7
15.00
Joseph Priestley and Antoine Laurent Lavoisier
Great Arguments
Jul 2004
*
7
15.00
Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Great Arguments
Sep 2003
*
7
28.59
The Ethnographers Voice
Thinking Allowed
Aug 2003
*
7
29.18
Robots
Connect
Jun 2003
*
7
43.00
The Lunar Society
In Our Time
Oct 2002
*
7
43.02
The scientist in history - missionary or monster?
In Our Time
Jul 2003
*
6
28.59
Six Degrees of Separation
Thinking Allowed
Jan 2003
*
6
29.00
Maps
Thinking Allowed
May 2002
*
6
44.49
History of drugs - their role in medicine and the arts
In Our Time
Apr 2003
*
5
42.39
The Artful Brain
Reith Lectures
Oct 2002
*
5
43.00
Architecture and power
In Our Time
Aug 2002
*
5
29.55
Libraries
Connect
Nov 2004
*
4
43.00
Electrickery
In Our Time
Feb 2004
*
4
29.30
Wrestling With Words
Science
May 2003
*
4
28.59
Where Stuff Comes From
Thinking Allowed
Apr 2003
*
4
42.29
Synapses and the Self
Reith Lectures
Apr 2003
*
4
42.36
Phantoms in the Brain
Reith Lectures
Aug 2002
*
4
29.55
Serendipity : Radiation
The Serendipity of Science
Aug 2002
*
4
29.25
Serendipity : Lenses and Bugs
The Serendipity of Science
Aug 2002
*
4
29.15
Serendipity : Luck or Judgement?
The Serendipity of Science
Aug 2002
*
4
27.51
In the footsteps of the great Chicago Ecologists
Thinking Allowed
Dec 2004
*
3
28.59
Evidence Based Research
Thinking Allowed
Oct 2004
*
3
29.54
Losing the Past
History
Oct 2004
*
3
29.59
Losing the Past (Part 1)
History
Dec 2003
*
3
28.55
Solomon Asch - Conformity
Mind Changers
Dec 2003
*
3
28.57
The Lab and the Mosque
Science
Oct 2003
*
3
43.00
Infinity
In Our Time
Jul 2003
*
3
28.59
E-Democracy
Thinking Allowed
Apr 2003
*
3
42.32
Neuroscience - the New Philosophy
Reith Lectures
Apr 2003
*
3
42.41
Purple Numbers and Sharp Cheese
Reith Lectures
Dec 2002
*
3
29.00
Music and Machines
Thinking Allowed
Nov 2002
*
3
28.00
Real Lives
Thinking Allowed
Aug 2004
*
2
11.36
Online communities - A vital resource for women or a poor substitute for real relationships?
Womans Hour
May 2004
*
2
30.00
Synchronization and Consumer Society
The Material World
Apr 2004
*
2
30.00
The Semantic Web
The Material World
Mar 2004
*
2
30.00
Here’s One I Prepared Earlier
Science
Mar 2004
*
2
43.00
Dreams - is there a science of dreams?
In Our Time
Dec 2003
*
2
28.52
Sir Frederic Bartlett - The War of the Ghosts
Mind Changers
Dec 2003
*
2
43.00
The Alphabet
In Our Time
Nov 2003
*
2
28.35
Out Of Tune
Science
Oct 2003
*
2
14.47
Keplers Conjecture
Another 5 Numbers
Oct 2003
*
2
14.47
The Largest Prime Number
Another 5 Numbers
Oct 2003
*
2
14.48
The Number Seven
Another 5 Numbers
Aug 2003
*
2
4.30
That'll Never Work on the Wireless
Feature
Nov 2002
*
2
43.02
Imagination - just what is it?
In Our Time
Nov 2001
*
2
7.00
Interview with Stephen Hawking
Today
Mar 2005
*
1
5.43
Mobile phones and spirituality
Sunday
Jul 2004
*
1
28.27
The Fax Machine
The Indispensables
Jul 2004
*
1
30.00
Baby Buggy
The Indispensables
Jul 2004
*
1
29.26
The Lift
The Indispensables
Jun 2004
*
1
6.12
Credit cards stop pornographers
Womans Hour
May 2004
*
1
29.01
Radio Frequency Identification
The Material World
May 2004
*
1
7.37
Are women seen as emotion-led and brain-dead?
Womans Hour
May 2004
*
1
43.00
Zero : dangerous saracen magic?
In Our Time
Dec 2003
*
1
7.06
Expensive frilly underwear - worth every penny?
Womans Hour
Oct 2003
*
1
14.47
Game Theory
Another 5 Numbers
Oct 2003
*
1
14.47
The Number Four
Another 5 Numbers
Oct 2003
*
1
29.24
The Last Goodbye
Science
Aug 2003
*
1
19.39
UK Audio Network
In Touch
Aug 2003
*
1
15.00
Halley's Comet
Tales Of Cats And Comets
Jul 2003
*
1
14.40
Pavlov's Dogs
Tales Of Cats And Comets
Jul 2003
*
1
15.00
Franklin's Kite
Tales Of Cats And Comets
Jul 2003
*
1
14.59
Schrodinger's Cat
Tales Of Cats And Comets
Jul 2003
*
1
15.00
Newton's Apple
Tales Of Cats And Comets
Jun 2003
*
1
7.15
Website Carer
Home Truths
Jun 2003
*
1
30.00
We Do It Our Way
Science
May 2003
*
1
29.59
Self-organisation
Frontiers
Dec 2002
*
1
42.57
The Calendar - a history of the Calendar in all its forms
In Our Time
Oct 2002
*
1
20.00
Sainsburys
In Touch
Oct 2002
*
1
28.10
Computer Games and Women
Shop Talk
Oct 2002
*
1
29.13
Net Profit
In Business
Oct 2002
*
1
19.53
Phone/Internet Shopping
In Touch
Jul 2002
*
1
28.59
Music Cognition
The Material World
Jun 2001
*
1
13.49
Reducing Bureaucracy to Byte Size
E-Villages
Sep 2005
30.00
Anthropology in Business
Shop Talk
Sep 2005
30.00
Blogging
Shop Talk
Aug 2005
30.00
Voice Recognition Technology
Shop Talk
Aug 2005
28.59
Children and Mobile Phones
Thinking Allowed
May 2005
43.00
Beauty
In Our Time
Apr 2005
43.59
Nanotechnology and Nanoscience
Reith Lectures 2005
Apr 2005
43.00
Perception and the Senses
In Our Time
Apr 2005
43.59
Innovation and Management
Reith Lectures 2005
Apr 2005
45.00
Collaboration
Reith Lectures 2005
Apr 2005
28.59
Queuing
Thinking Allowed
Apr 2005
43.59
Technology will Determine the Future of the Human Race
Reith Lectures 2005
Mar 2005
43.00
How Angels Got Their Wings
In Our Time
Feb 2005
27.40
Consumer Evolution
Shop Talk
Feb 2005
28.40
From Arial to Wide Latin
Science
Feb 2005
28.00
The Future of the PC
Shop Talk
Jan 2005
9.44
Gadgets : Just how useful are they?
Womans Hour
Dec 2004
6.08
Eva Pascoe, founder of the world's first internet café
Womans Hour
Jul 2004
28.20
Cars of the future
The Material World
Jul 2004
10.57
The Telephone
Womans Hour
Jun 2004
43.00
Empiricism
In Our Time
May 2004
30.15
eBay Watch
In Business
May 2004
30.00
Digital Treatment
In Business
Apr 2004
10.26
Why can't children just play anymore?
Womans Hour
Apr 2004
5.20
Talking to teenage boys about porn
Womans Hour
Mar 2004
29.59
The Harvard Computers
Science
Mar 2004
11.18
What makes a new colour trend?
Womans Hour
Feb 2004
20.00
AbilityNet Survey on Banking Websites
In Touch
Jan 2004
42.35
Cryptography - secret history of ciphers and codes
In Our Time
Dec 2003
14.02
Board Games
Womans Hour
Dec 2003
28.36
Jean Piaget - The Three Mountains
Mind Changers
Nov 2003
8.57
Kitchens of the 21st Century
Womans Hour
Oct 2003
30.00
Beyond The Bar Code
In Business
Sep 2003
10.28
Blogging
Womans Hour
Jul 2003
28.00
My Life as a Dalek
Factual
May 2003
43.00
Memory And The Brain
In Our Time
May 2003
28.01
The Madness of Crowds
The History Of Folly
May 2003
7.57
E-mail vs Letter
Womans Hour
May 2003
27.49
Tis Folly To Be Wise
The History Of Folly
May 2003
27.46
Group Think
The History Of Folly
Mar 2003
43.00
Originality - is it just a romantic notion?
In Our Time
Mar 2003
15.08
CCTV and Children
Womans Hour
Mar 2003
4.56
Technophobe
Home Truths
Mar 2003
19.55
Format of Bills and Letters
In Touch
Feb 2003
27.41
The perception of risk
More Or Less
Feb 2003
19.55
PIN Pads at Post Offices
In Touch
Feb 2003
8.12
Women in IT
Womans Hour
Feb 2003
19.55
Disability Access to DVD's
In Touch
Jan 2003
28.52
Lie Detection
The Material World
Jan 2003
28.37
Clappers: A History Of Applause
Factual
Jan 2003
28.57
Sensory Fabrics and Computer Aided Taxonomy
The Material World
Dec 2002
27.36
Numbers in the dock
More Or Less
Dec 2002
20.00
Visionary Design Website Awards
In Touch
Nov 2002
27.45
Making sense of millions
More Or Less
Nov 2002
29.15
Wearable Monitoring
Connect
Nov 2002
20.00
Mobile Phone for Visually Impaired
In Touch
Nov 2002
43.00
Human Nature - innate or nurtured?
In Our Time
Sep 2002
6.37
Why computers can never be a man's best friend
Rage Against The Machine
Sep 2002
6.03
The trend towards 'over technology' and convoluted computer
Rage Against The Machine
Sep 2002
6.36
Looking at whether computers and robots are after YOUR job
Rage Against The Machine
Jun 2002
44.49
The Soul - the key to our individuality as humans?
In Our Time
Jun 2002
6.26
The Visually Impaired Girl and the Bank
ouch!
May 2002
29.02
Computer Games
The Material World
May 2002
6.57
E-Democracy
Womans Hour
May 2002
44.51
The Examined Life - is an unexamined life worth living?
In Our Time
Apr 2002
7.14
Internet Dating
Womans Hour
Mar 2002
44.49
The Artist - a special kind of human being?
In Our Time
Mar 2002
7.37
Computers & Schools
Womans Hour
Feb 2002
3.48
Too Much Choice
Womans Hour
Jun 2001
13.49
Browsing the Horizon
E-Villages
Jun 2001
13.49
Wise Women of the Web
E-Villages
Jun 2001
13.49
Making Waves
E-Villages
Jun 2001
13.49
Putting the I See into ICT
E-Villages
May 2001
27.08
Extreme Evolution How far can technology go?
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Future
Apr 2001
27.12
Interactive TV, contradiction or cool connection?
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Future
Apr 2001
27.37
E-book versus paper?
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Future
Apr 2001
27.34
Don't know your Midi from your MP3?
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Future
Feb 2001
3.01
Six Degrees of Separation
Today
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