Charles Darwin

Many of us go through life as if one day, eventually, we might get through everything on our to-do lists and satisfy everybody's demands. This is simply impossible, says writer Oliver Burkeman, so we… Video, Audio

Dunedin citizens were embroiled in a tempestuous public debate over Darwin's Theory of Evolution in the 1880s says Dr Rosi Crane. She speaks with Lynn Freeman about these fractious times. Audio

Cold-water swimmers have long been known for espousing the benefits of cold-water dips. But is it all good? New Scientist writer and ex-Antarctic biologist Alison George has investigated whether… Audio

Kathryn Ryan talks to the acclaimed author A.N Wilson on his radical reappraisal of one of the great Victorians, Charles Darwin. Audio

How on earth could natural selection – Darwin's theory that it is fittest which survive – allow the peacock's tail to evolve?Because the survival of the prettiest is also at work in the natural world… Audio

Kim Hill talks to British comedian and musician Bill Bailey, whose new show, Larks in Transit, is a compendium of tales from his twenty years as a travelling entertainer. He is visiting New Zealand… Audio

Kim Hill talks to astronomer and Jesuit Brother Guy Consolmagno, Director of the Vatican Observatory and President of the Vatican Observatory Foundation. He is part of a group of world-leading experts… Audio