To start 2021, an interview about one of my favourite non-fiction books of last year: The Next Great Migration by Sonia Shah. Sonia is a science journalist and prizewinning author,… Read More
Sonia Shah on lemmings, Linnaeus, and human migration
Category: science
Caspar Henderson in search of modern marvels
In this week’s programme we’re exploring the concept of wonder in the company of science writer Caspar Henderson, author of A New Map of Wonders. One reviewer called the book… Read More
Tessa Laird on the weird world of bats
In this the first programme in the new autumn season, the Hedgehog and the Fox go in search of bats, in the company of Tessa Laird. Tessa, who teaches at… Read More
Chris Chambers on the sins of psychology
“Remember that science is nothing more than a competition for status in a field of storytellers. You are doing what the system requires of you [in committing fraud], and, in… Read More
Jerry Kaplan: Humans Need Not Apply
The recent news story about robots developing their own private language claimed alarmed Facebook researchers had to pull the plug on their experiment. The story turned out to be not… Read More
Jan Zalasiewicz on 4 billion years of climate history
What do we know about the Earth’s ancient climate, and how do we know it? What can it tell us about its – and our – possible future? Leicester professor… Read More
Gay Bradshaw: elephants on the edge
“Elephants are not treated much differently now than they were in the mid-eighteenth century: they are objects of awe and conservation, yet legally hunted, made captive, abused, and forced to… Read More
Martin Kemp on the human animal in art and science
‘As soon as humans make images, they make them about humans and they make them about animals and the relationship between them.’ My guest on this programme from the archive… Read More
Craig Stanford: The end of the apes?
“Evolutionary success is not a birthright nor is it a guarantor of survival in perpetuity. Natural selection wrought the living ape species, and like all animals their time on Earth… Read More