Tapping into Rubber

Professor Kathy Willis, director of science at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, with the final episodes of her new history of our changing relationship with plantsKathy Willis examines how the technology that helped map whole genomes in plants and animals was to revolutionise the c ...  Show more

Prof Kathy Willis, Director of Science at Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, with an omnibus edition of her history of our changing relationship with plants from the early 20th century.She examines new insights into plant hormones during the first few decades of the 20th century, the man ...  Show more

For the final time this series, Newsjack's host Kiri Pritchard-McLean is joined by Luke Kempner, Mali Ann Rees, Jason Forbes and a virtual audience to make sense of this week in news.This week, we find out how we might struggle to re-adapt to office life, how Barbie is celebratin ...  Show more

Andy Zaltzman is joined by Daliso Chaponda, Susie McCabe, Geoff Norcott and Ash Sarkar to break down the week in news. Expect discussion on the Labour Deputy Leader Election, the return of the Mandelson, strikes on Qatar, Russian drones in Poland and telepathic Google searches. W ...  Show more

"Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death." - William Shakespeare. Dunsinane, Scotland, the year is 1053, Macbeth is king. But why has T ...  Show more

Donald Trump makes some surprising new additions to his team, there’s an unexpected guest at COP29, Nigel Farage accepts that climate change is real, and Justin Welby explains the real reason for his resignation.This week's impressionists are Jan Ravens, Lewis MacLeod, Jess Robin ...  Show more