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BBC Radio 4 · 671 episodes with transcripts

A weekly programme that illuminates the mysteries and challenges the controversies behind the science that's changing our world.

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  | jq -r '.episodes[] | "\(.id) \(.title)"' \
  | while IFS=' ' read -r id title; do
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      [ -f "${id}-${slug}.md" ] && continue
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        -o "${id}-${slug}.md" \
        https://spoken.md/transcripts/$id || rm -f "${id}-${slug}.md"
      sleep 0.34
    done

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Latest BBC Inside Science transcripts

Will AI complete mathematics?

October 8, 2026

Tom Whipple (0:00)

Hello, welcome to Inside Science from the BBC World Service with me, Tom Whipple.

On Wednesday morning, the world's mathematicians arrived into work. They poured themselves a cup of black coffee. They wiped the blackboard clean. They sat down in the common room and started another day thinking about theorems. Then they learnt that half of those theorems, ish, had just been apparently solved. This…

Caroline Steel (0:54)

Well, did you know that this week is World Space Week?

Tom Whipple (0:57)

I did not.

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