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363 - Ginger Kerrick on manning Nasa's Mission Control and getting to Mars

Professor Jim Al-Khalili talks to leading scientists about their life and work, finding out what inspires and motivates them and asking what their discoveries might do for us in the future

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333 - Jacqueline McKinley on unearthing bones and stories at Britain's ancient burial sites

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332 - Jonathan Shepherd on a career as a crime-fighting surgeon

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331 - Doyne Farmer on making sense of chaos for a better world

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330 - Tori Herridge on ancient dwarf elephants and frozen mammoths

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328 - Tim Peake on his journey to becoming an astronaut and science in space

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322 - Bill Gates on vaccines, conspiracy theories and the pleasures of pickleball

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