Episode summary: This week NASA slammed a spacecraft into an asteroid in the hope of diverting its course. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test or DART mission will help scientists understand how easy it would be protect Earth if one was headed in our direction. More Or Less first discussed this in...

Episode summary: Ed and Bertha Briney’s unoccupied farmhouse was reportedly broken into 50 times over 10 years. They put up “No Trespassing” signs, repeatedly complained to sheriffs in two different counties, nailed doors shut, and boarded up windows - but nothing worked. So they decided to try some...

Episode summary: The quality of hospital food around the country remains a very mixed picture, despite various initiatives over the last decades. But now there is real optimism around a major Independent Review of NHS Hospital Food in England, published in 2020. Sheila Dillon looks at the barriers t...

Episode summary: History of Inventions: PowerPoint

Episode summary: Ukraine has reportedly recaptured nearly 10,000 square kilometres of territory that had been occupied by Russia. We ask where the numbers come from and what they mean. Plus with Norway supplanting Russia to become Europe’s biggest supplier of natural gas, we ask how much money the c...

Episode summary: This week, David and Rosemary dive into David’s new studio and plan out how to automate everything.

Episode summary: On this special feature episode, President Bill Clinton interviews 99% Invisible host and creator Roman Mars.

Episode summary: The Department of Physiological Hygiene

The podcast explored Ancel Keys' Minnesota Starvation Experiment. Keys had already invented the K-ration and was yet to “discover” the Mediterranean diet. At the time, doctors knew little about the effects of prolonged malnutrition, and the...

Episode summary: I have been following Jess’s work ever since I heard Bats in the Attic on BBC Shortcuts. Jess so artfully integrates two weaving strands of a story together to create a 7-minute piece which is moving, poetic and challenging. The way Jess deals with grief - with curiosity and even hu...

Episode summary: A car ride tumbles through grief, teenagers howl in the woods and a snapshot of a day’s answering machines across America - Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures where all the action unfolds in the present. Church in the woods, Louisiana, USA at 6pm in April 2...