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How reading shapes your brain

2

Should we eat ultra-processed food?

3

Why are we all so stressed?

4

Love the foods you hate

5

The future of food

6

Are saunas good for you?

7

Weight loss drugs

8

How do we adapt to the cold?

9

Should we pay more for chocolate?

10

Why are some animals black and white?

11

The power of pepper

12

Dreaming of being a chef

13

Artistic swimming

14

Rethinking dyslexia

15

Why are billionaires building bunkers?

16

Scared to speak English?

17

What English phrases really mean

18

Is social media dead?

19

Is it OK to disagree?

20

Was Christmas better in the past?

21

Finding and eating wild food

22

How are horses helping to heal humans?

23

What’s your favourite flavour of crisp?

24

How are influencers affecting politics?

25

Do you have good dining etiquette?

26

How important is play?

27

Do you like garlic?

28

Is breakfast the most important meal of the day?

29

Did a civilisation exist on Earth before humans?

30

Are we too fixated on protein?

31

What makes a good citizen?

32

Have you ever seen a whale?

33

The criminal trade in ancient objects

34

Would you like a robot companion?

35

What causes hearing loss?

36

The joys of writing lists

37

What's it like to be a twin?

38

What's your favourite snack?

39

Grown-ups buying kids’ toys

40

Are you flourishing?

41

What is the manosphere?

42

What is degrowth?

43

How can we help wild bees?

44

Do you need to declutter your home?

45

How do you say sorry?

46

Are plant-based substitutes healthier than meat?

47

How do babies communicate?

48

Can climate change affect our mental health?

49

How important is politeness?

50

What's your favourite kind of noodle?

51

Foods that go crunch

52

Which cooking oil is the best?

53

Should animals be kept in zoos?

54

Can cows prevent wildfires?

55

How climate change affects animal migration

56

Can AI solve crime?

57

Learning multiple languages

58

Are we getting more allergic to things?

59

Can we boost the immune system?

60

Healthy meals on a budget

61

Should we eat less rice?

62

The country that measures happiness

63

A vaccine for cancer

64

Young women on social media

65

Rage bait: How online anger makes money

66

Why smells make us feel at home

67

Becoming a musician

68

How the world learned to love fast food

69

Which country has the best schools?

70

Eating 50-year-old stew

71

Are you drinking enough water?

72

Embarrassed to go to the doctor?

73

Call centres: Are you talking to AI?

74

Making 'mum friends'

75

Can you trust ancestry DNA kits?

76

How babies learn to talk

77

The secrets to a healthy old age

78

The bond between sisters

79

Having acne

80

Why you need a good night's sleep

81

Divorce: Why does it happen?

82

Tech that refuses to die

83

Did Taylor Swift fans cause an earthquake?

84

What decides our taste?

85

Learning a new food culture

86

Saving water in the driest place on Earth

87

Keeping kids off smartphones

88

Less salt, better health

89

Meet a real Willy Wonka

90

Why we love dumplings

91

Kids and climate change

92

Birthday cakes

93

The science of falling in love

94

Why read books, not screens?

95

AI to reduce animal testing

96

The school that puts the kids in charge

97

What can we learn from toddlers?

98

How learning to read changes lives

99

Building a better world with wood?

100

How names can tell painful stories

101

Too old to have a baby?

102

E-rickshaws driving away pollution

103

How bubble tea got its bubbles

104

Can you keep a secret?

105

Bitter food, better health?

106

Talking at the table

107

Eating for two

108

Dancing for the brain

109

Nudges: The secrets of persuasion

110

Why sitting is bad for health

111

Why everyone loves the underdog

112

Disability in music and theatre

113

What makes a great library?

114

Sewing to fight period poverty

115

Plastic waste eaten by enzymes

116

Feed your brain

117

Food for new mums

118

Fighting loneliness with soup

119

What is the future of work?

120

How the language of menus matters

121

The psychology of greed

122

Addicted to sugar

123

Our love of pets

124

Sexism: Female farmers fighting back

125

Learning lessons from the Moon

126

Could we live without plastic?

127

Invasive species: Why don't we eat them?

128

What and where is Little Italy?

129

Social media and teenage health

130

Mystery flying objects

131

Elephant-proof farming

132

Episode 2.1

133

Episode 1- Phrasal verbs with "Get"

134

Ways to live for 100 years

135

Mushrooms: Medicine or myth?

136

Saving dead languages

137

Sounds that make you want to scream

138

How fans talk about their passions

139

Making male friends

140

Space-saving solar hacks

141

The stories behind our names

142

Heatwaves - can we adapt?

143

Are you unhappy at work?

144

Do you have eco-anxiety?

145

Can we stop natural disasters?

146

The right way to say sorry

147

Could you live on wild food?

148

Plants fighting pollution

149

Should we fear chatbots?

150

Is it wrong to eat plants?

151

Sonic seasoning

152

The benefits of doing nothing

153

The art of subtitling

154

Ecotourism: good or bad?

155

Can climate change cause more disease?

156

Food shortages

157

Addicted to war

158

Ice and the origins of life on Earth

159

Women in politics

160

What's the point of museums?

161

How culture affects sadness

162

Would you eat a Kalette?

163

Do you get jealous easily?

164

Are you lonely in a crowd?

165

Food and mood

166

How to talk to a climate denier

167

Losing your mother tongue

168

The health benefits of apples

169

Why do we procrastinate?

170

Doomscrolling: Why do we do it?

171

Exercise for The Lazy

172

Can AI have a mind of its own?

173

Climate change: Are there too many people?

174

The hidden life of buffets

175

Songwriting

176

United against food waste

177

3D printers

178

Are opinion polls accurate?

179

Deep-sea mining: Good or bad for the planet?

180

Can music mend a broken heart?

181

The art of conversation

182

Qatar's World Cup workers

183

Controlling the weather

184

Meet the flavourists

185

Are Halloween costumes too scary?

186

Does climate change make you anxious?

187

Translating recipes

188

Are artistic brains different?

189

Why are prices going up?

190

English for dating online

191

Man vs beast: Who is more efficient?

192

Are you following your dreams?

193

Do emojis make language better?

194

Being a beauty influencer

195

Women in the workplace

196

Connecting remote communities

197

How pandemics end

198

Confused by modern idioms?

199

Which are more dangerous: Sharks or humans?

200

Climate change and evolution

201

Preserving traditional recipes

202

Restoring trust in science

203

The Manhattan Project

204

Island life: Is it paradise?

205

The technology of translation

206

What is the Platinum Jubilee?

207

People who can taste words

208

Finding your way in space

209

Can VR treat fears and phobias?

210

Life in the modern office

211

Remembering Desmond Tutu

212

Discoveries of the Deep Sea

213

Rhetoric: How persuasive are you?

214

Britain's love affair with coffee

215

Optimists vs Pessimists

216

The world of Agatha Christie

217

Mars: Mysteries of the Red Planet

218

Why laughter is the best medicine

219

Is being kind good for you?

220

Eating bugs

221

The benefits of boredom

222

Sleepy in South Korea

223

Sleepy in South Korea

224

Preparing for the Beijing Winter Olympics

225

Are personalised diets the best way to be healthy?

226

Inventing languages

227

Welcome to the 'metaverse'

228

Do trees have memories?

229

Algorithms

230

Changing the Earth's climate

231

Body language online

232

The Human Library: Life as an open book

233

How green is nuclear energy?

234

Why we forget the things we learn

235

Why is Super Mario so popular?

236

Should fast food sponsor sport?

237

Grime: Music from architecture

238

Where do your tips go?

239

Angela Merkel

240

Smart tech and climate change

241

Going through the menopause

242

Bitcoin's energy cost

243

I love my language!

244

Why are people collecting NFTs?

245

Robot Artists

246

Bats: Friend or foe?

247

Is the planet warming up faster?

248

Is technology harmful to youngsters?

249

Is chimp politics like ours?

250

Making sense of the census

251

The fear of numbers

252

A future without doctors?

253

Lights! Camera! Kiss! - Intimacy on screen

254

Head injury in sport

255

Inside the head of Jeff Bezos

256

The history of swimming

257

Are humans a messy species?

258

The loneliest man in history

259

How colour affects us

260

Flexible working

261

Hypnotism

262

Saving the white rhinos

263

Making old things last longer

264

Building rapport with others

265

Food superstitions

266

The Rosetta Stone

267

Compassion fatigue

268

Hermits

269

When males are not needed

270

Mermaids

271

A quieter world

272

US and China vs climate change

273

Naked in nature

274

The language of biscuits

275

Is English really English?

276

Astronauts on strike?

277

Digital help for blind people

278

What’s the key to happiness?

279

Looking for utopia

280

Covid: One year on

281

Singing in tune

282

Working for yourself

283

How much heat do you lose from your head?

284

The woman whose cells never die

285

What makes a good story?

286

For the love of foreign languages

287

Why can't we resist comfort food?

288

What is fat-shaming?

289

Coronavirus vs other pandemics

290

Are trees intelligent?

291

Can jellyfish help us solve our problems?

292

Why do we choose to text instead of talk?

293

Loneliness

294

Is punctuality important?

295

Could you be a victim of online fraud?

296

Melting ice sheet: Is it too late?

297

Walkman: the music player revolution

298

Could humans live in underwater cities?

299

Hacking help for US elections

300

Do chimps have the same emotions as us?

301

How can we make the web a better place?

302

Coronavirus: Dealing with mass unemployment post-pandemic

303

Grandma therapy in Zimbabwe

304

Is there a future without bees?

305

How to talk about conspiracy theories

306

What’s the point of blood types?

307

Will Covid-19 change cities?

308

Is this the era of distrust?

309

No more bosses

310

The medicine of coronavirus

311

Food made in space

312

Sport against poverty

313

Covid-19: The office after lockdown

314

Should we wear a face mask?

315

Millennials and business

316

Is being thrifty a virtue?

317

The food delivery revolution

318

What difference has #MeToo made?

319

Is the recycling system broken?

320

The soothing power of books

321

Shocking facts about electricity

322

Internet - good or bad?