Professor Jean Golding, epidemiologist

Tahra Zafar is a costume and creature effects designer. She designed the Paddington Bear puppet featured in the hit West End production Paddington: The Musical.Born into a theatre family, she grew up with an Armenian American father who worked as a choreographer in the first West ...  Show more

Jojo Moyes, writer, shares the eight tracks, book and luxury item she would take with her if cast away to a desert island. With Lauren Laverne. 

Sam Harris speaks with Siddhartha Mukherjee about the human desire to understand and manipulate heredity, the genius of Gregor Mendel, the ethics of altering our genes, the future of genetic medicine, patent issues in genetic research, and other topics. Siddhartha Mukherjee is a ...  Show more

Author's Talk: John Launer with Dr Graham Music Who was Sabina Spielrein? Her dramatic life story is most famous for her notorious affair with Carl Jung, dramatised in the film A Dangerous Method starring Keira Knightley. Yet she was a woman who overcame family and psychiatric ab ...  Show more

Dr. Anne Rimoin is a top U.S. epidemiologist and professor of UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and Infectious Disease Division of the Geffen School of Medicine. She has published 70 research articles and book chapters. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The At ...  Show more

The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is a surgeon and a painter. Sir Roy Calne - Professor of Surgery at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge - will be talking to Sue Lawley about his early conviction that transplant surgery was a viable way of treating kidney and liver d ...  Show more