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Taking a shortcut

2

Walk the line

3

Rogue Agents

4

An identity crisis

5

A distorted view

6

The phizz-whizzing science of Roald Dahl

7

The show must go on

8

A very dry episode

9

Fashionably late

10

Light entertainment

11

Someone's always watching

12

Down The Rabbit Hole

13

Bald caps, sparrow raps and lightning claps

14

A scientific odyssey

15

Everyone needs a hero

16

Stuck in a cycle

17

Dividing lines

18

Anyone for chips?

19

The beautiful game

20

Science bears fruit

21

Celebrating science on Africa Day

22

Unexpected enhancements

23

Hantavirus outbreak and what’s in a name

24

One hundred years of Sir David Attenborough

25

The soaring price of condoms

26

Chernobyl: 40 years later

27

The ribbiting science of frogs

28

Is everyone accounted for?

29

Putting science on the map

30

A bumper edition

31

In the name of science

32

Out for blood

33

The colour of science

34

A sweet treat

35

Seeing double

36

Are you lucky?

37

Let the games begin

38

Are you still with us?

39

Banging the science drum

40

Science down under

41

Science of the future

42

An episode inspired by our listeners

43

The gift of science

44

Why are we sad when television series end?

45

Chicken, with a side order of science

46

Some bear-y interesting space science

47

The unexpected science behind Klimt's artwork

48

Some Beautiful Science

49

A keg of beer-based science

50

A storm of science

51

A science heist

52

How does biometric data work?

53

Why are gold prices so high?

54

The strongest stuff in the Universe

55

Science inspired by Taylor Swift

56

Two-hundred years of trains

57

Pirate science ahoy!

58

Some dam awesome science

59

Punk rock science

60

Where do beaches come from?

61

Mountains of overtourism

62

Why do we follow trends?

63

Floods, mangroves and rampaging tractors

64

Traffic science

65

Trailer: 13 Minutes Presents: The Space Shuttle

66

The science of ageing

67

How dust affects the world

68

Sharks, albatrosses, the Jaws theme and fishing

69

Cargo ships, chemical spills and caribou

70

A roarsome episode

71

Some really cool science

72

Defuse and diffuse

73

Gaming-inspired science

74

Mission unexpectedly possible

75

Story time

76

Enduring it all

77

Ant antics

78

In memoriam

79

Kenya believe it?

80

An eggciting episode

81

Navigating northward

82

Oh, Rats!

83

Don’t be a fool!

84

What’s that smell?

85

The fast and the curious

86

Silent science

87

Topsy turvy

88

Standing on the shoulders of giants

89

Let’s talk about love

90

All by myself

91

Snake science

92

Keep it clean

93

Circles, circumferences and Covid

94

Scientist spotlight

95

(Re)New Year

96

Festive trash talk

97

The science of Santa

98

Totally bananas

99

Going home

100

Doing a deal