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In this irreverent and illuminating popular science show, award-winning geneticist Dr Adam Rutherford teams up with mathematics guru Dr Hannah Fry to solve puzzling conundrums sent in by listeners. For the past five years, they've been scrutinising a cornucopia of cases using the power of science - from why people shout on their mobile phones to how much the bacteria in our body weighs. In these 50 episodes, they tackle topics including what makes gingers ginger, how to make the perfect cup of tea, whether being left-handed affects your brain and why we get static shocks.

Geneticist Adam Rutherford and mathematician Hannah Fry guide listeners through time and space, through our bodies and brains, showing how emotions shape our view of reality, how our minds tell us lies, and why a mostly bald and curious ape decided to begin poking at the fabric of the universe.

Tammy Schultz, Hannah Estabrook, and Adam David Dell have written a go-to resource for faith-based practitioners caring for survivors of sexual abuse. Drawing from their personal experiences and work with survivors, the authors discuss the integration of theology and mental health practices and the healing pathways of the counseling journey.

These 29 episodes encompass classic cosmic conundrums - including whether there is intelligent alien life out there, if infinity exists and how wormholes could allow us to time-travel - as well as probing more down-to-earth human quirks like our differing pain thresholds, our attraction to 'bad' foods like chips and chocolate and our varied regional accents. Plus, the duo embarks on a cheery evolutionary thought experiment as they wonder what would happen if humanity became extinct....

In 1988, the city of Glasgow hosted a Garden Festival that went a long way to eradicating its 'no mean city' image. It was also the year in which a serial killer stalked the city, killing six people, with the final victim being the detective in charge of the investigation. Each of the victims was found displayed in one of the city's public parks, the killer having selected a passage from the Bible to leave with his victims as a macabre calling card. Forever ingrained in the grim history of the city, for over three decades the killings have remained unsolved. On the 31st anniversary of the ...

A fishing trawler carrying twenty four doomed young Syrian people between Northern Ireland and the Ayrshire coast sinks during a violent storm and all on board are drowned. The authorities act swiftly and charge the Irish businessman they identify as being behind the people-smuggling enterprise with his crimes and he is duly sentenced. An unsavoury episode in Glasgow's criminal underworld is quickly ended with a mortal blow, before it has a chance to properly establish itself and the Police on both sides of the Irish Sea are content to pat themselves on the back, after a job well done. So ...

Brought to you by Penguin. "For all those finding it difficult: the sun will shine on you again and the clouds will go away. Remember that tomorrow will be a good day." Captain Sir Tom Moore captured the hearts of a nation, as he walked 100 laps of his garden to raise money for the NHS. Captain...

Welcome to The Gal’s Guide — a weekly dating and lifestyle podcast created to empower radical self-love and bold relationships. Join us, long distance best friends Hannah Adams and Emily Aleece Burton, for amusing and vulnerable conversations with insightful guests as we cover topics like love and dating to your own self-love, healing, spirituality, and always remembering the importance of gal pals. With every episode, we ask you to let us be your guides on the beautiful journey to becoming the most fulfilled and confident version of yourself. We are blunt, vulnerable, but most ...

Darren Morris thought that he had it all - his dream job as a Journalist with a national newspaper, covering the sport that he loves and a beautiful girlfriend, the beautiful, if somewhat 'high-maintenance' Megan Bartholomew. In short, he is happy with his lot, until inexplicably, on the same morning, he loses two of the main pillars that make up his life, leaving only his beloved daughter Lucy to try and help her Dad through his early mid-life crisis. Depressed and feeling more than a little sorry for himself, Darren is sent by the new boss that has taken his old job, Simon Armitage to ...

Life on the Ayrshire coast can be quiet. Uneventful, even. But when a Solicitor's wife is found beaten to death in her own home, it begins a week long cycle of violence that leaves four people dead and Detective Inspector Jim Aitken and his partner Rosie Watson scrambling for answers in a race against time to prevent the killer from targeting the fifth and final victim - Aitken himself.

We all have a past. Not all of it full of rose-tinted memories. We make decisions. Take choices and one of the cruel realities of getting older is that we have more years to look back and agonise over the ones we would like to go back and revisit with the benefit of hindsight. Euan Stanton is a middle aged widower in such a position and unlike most of us, decides to do something about it.Sally Davis is a successful lawyer. Happily married, with the only recurring source of unhappiness in her life being her failure to become a mother.Once upon a carefree teenage time, these two people knew ...

It is the late 1980s and for teenager Bobby Wilson and his two best friends, the only certainly about life in a small Scottish town is how repetitively predictable each day is. School during the day, followed by interminably long hours in the evening to indulge youthful imaginations within the limitations of the budgets of their working class parents. Then an exotic new restaurant opens, serving the food of their dreams and providing access to the latest in electronic games - and it's all for free. There has to be a catch, surely? Who is the mysterious owner and why is his restaurant only ...

Have you ever wondered why parents get so angry all of the time? They seem to spend half of their lives telling you to clean your room, do your homework and to eat up all of your dinner - even the vegetables! As hard as it is to believe, once upon a time, they were your age. Doing the same things and being moaned at by your Grandparents. So - when and how did they change? When did they stop being able to have fun? Maurice Muggleton, Brenda Bottomley and Peter Pantweather are all parents. They do their best, but their children have had enough of their over the top, strict ways and decide to ...

Attending the funeral of his only Uncle in a remote village that occupies a small, wind-swept corner of a peninsula in the north-west of Scotland, Detective Inspector Jim Aitken is in a reflective mood. There are no suspicious circumstances around the death of his Uncle David, and if nothing else, it is an opportunity to catch-up with the life of his cousin Kevin and some of the friends that Aitken remembers from his visits to the area as a young man. Then the snow comes in - an extreme blast of the raw power of nature, that makes travelling to or from the village of Auchencross impossible ...

Two years on from the 'Jeremiah' case that shattered his family and Detective Inspector James Aitken is still trying desperately to salvage what he can from his personal and professional life. Now assigned to the 'cold case' team, Aitken is handed the task of looking in to the historic deaths of a young woman and her disabled son in Ayrshire. It is the longest of long shots and even his Superintendent admits that he expects little to come of it. Then Aitken's wife is suddenly released from Prison and his personal and professional lives collide once again in the most dramatic of ...

Two twelve year old girls go out for the evening to a park in a nearby village, but only one returns, instantly plunging Rhona Nicholl's family in to an enduring darkness that they will struggle to break free from. The young girl is soon found dead and the Police immediately suspect that the serial-killer who has been stalking young girls in recent years has struck again.Just over twenty years on and Rhona's father Jack and younger sister Sarah are at the wedding of Ashley Harrison, the girl who returned safely to her own family on that awful night, bringing up yet another flurry of ...

There's no way out. The bills are mounting and for devoted family man Mark Higgins, there is no honest way to dig himself out of the self-inflicted mess his speculative exploits on the stock market has created. To begin with, it was all going so well, thanks in part to the assistance of a self-styled 'investment guru' named Robert Waterhouse. Telling himself that it wasn't gambling, everyone knew that was for mugs after all, the inevitable happens and Mark is left desperately trying to keep himself afloat. When the futility of his task finally hits home, he has to consider making the ...

It is a run of the mill, if somewhat frustrating Tuesday morning in the life of Chartered Surveyor Scott Reid, as he collects a set of keys from an Estate Agent in order to inspect yet another property. All he is concerned about is ticking another house from the long list he is due to inspect that day, but when he finds the home owner lying dead in his bed, the apparent victim of a brutal stabbing, his day suffers a sudden injection of excitement that is the last thing he needs. Detective Inspector Jim Aitken's day begins in a similarly uneventful way. Having recently returned from parental...

Paul Johnson has the ultimate deadbeat job - head barman in a pub which only has a handful of customers. The only reason he is still in gainful, if tedious employment is that the bar is owned by his best friend, Pete Jackson. Paul is a dreamer, with ambitions of finally being able to improve the lives of his wife and son by finally being able to sell the Television Drama Script he has been working on for longer than he can care to remember. Then one day, one of Paul's few customers, an old-man named Stan Tancredie passes away in front of the horrified barman while he was the playing pub's ...

Common Waters: The Podcast offers conversations on what brings people together, while working toward a travel show that will take us to new and interesting places. Join us for each episode as we build the show from scratch and hopefully end up with Neil in a sewer.