The ethics of smartphones

Have you always wanted to tell us what you think about a topic? Well, now's your chance. Over the summer break you can film yourself answering some of our curliest questions.We've re-released some of our most popular episodes so you can listen and be inspired to tell us what you ...  Show more

Molly’s just an itsy bitsy cutesy spider, but Carl is freaking out! Lots of people are scared of spiders. In fact, people can be scared of a whole range of things you might find surprising, like a fear of clowns or paper or pancakes. But is that OK? 

Claudia Hammond explores how children think with two psychologists; Dr Victoria Simms from Ulster University who researches how children’s understanding of maths develops and professor Teresa McCormack from Queens University Belfast who researches how children understand time. Th ...  Show more

Maggie Aderin-Pocock has been fascinated by space since she was a young child. When she was six years old she caught the bug when she saw a picture of an astronaut on the front of a book in her primary school library. As a teenager she built her own telescope. After studying phys ...  Show more

Despite their popularity with kids, tablets and other connected devices are built on top of systems that weren’t designed for them to easily understand or navigate. Adapting algorithms to interact with a child isn’t without its complications—as no one child is exactly like anothe ...  Show more

Should you monitor your child's smartphone habits, we will discuss this next Richard Hogan family psychotherapist, Clinical Director at The Therapy Institute and author of parenting the screenager Father to 3 daughters and also Jen Hogan Journalist, Columnist with the Irish Times ...  Show more