Season One
Welcome to the first series of Small Screen Science Podcast. In just 6 episodes, we’ve had some fantastic guests and forayed into some wonderful and unusual scientific research. Want to know more? Of course you do.
Explore series one and use the links below to find out more about each of the episodes, which aired in 2020. Meet the experts we interviewed, the myths we debunked and delve deeper into some of the fascinating science that we uncovered along the way!
Ep 1. The Great British Bake Off: Soggy Bottom Science
Covering some of the science behind baking our favourite treats, using maths to create perfect pie recipes and wrapping our ears around the field of food acoustics, this episode is nothing short of mouth-watering.
Ep 2. Silent Witness: Crime Scene Science
A scientific advisor for one of the UK’s longest-running and most popular crime dramas joins us to shed some light onto the field of forensic pathology, and we try not to disturb the evidence as we explore a staged crime scene house used to teach forensic science students.
Ep 3. Strictly Come Dancing: Strictly Science
We waltz on over to London to explore a dance science laboratory and then sashay to speak to Parkinson’s UK, to find out how dance is being used to slow the progression of neurodegenerative diseases.
Ep 4. Love Island: Six-Pack Science
Reality TV has become an addictive genre on our screens so we find out why, and whether it can be a good thing for us, all the while wondering why we find certain traits attractive or not. We even try to use science to figure out the best way to win Love Island…
Ep 5. Dracula: Blood-sucking Science
Joined this episode by an expert in vampire bats, we ask whether vampires really could exist and what they might look like today if they did. Then we move from physiology to psychology, and find out why we as audiences like to watch scary films and why the horror genre might actually be good for us.
Ep 6. Line of Duty: Blues and Two’s Science
How does ethics play a role in criminology, how do guns and kevlar work, and what on earth is the field of forensic ballistics? Most importantly, if you were being shot at, would you hear the gun fire before the bullet hit you? All this and more in the explosive season finale.