Science In Action
Hosted by Roland Pease · BBC World Service
4.6from 410 ratings
- 336
- Episodes
- 95
- Transcribed
- 410
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2019
- First episode
About Science In Action
The BBC brings you all the week's science news.
- Publisher
- BBC World Service
- Category
- science · technology
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 6 Jun 2019
- Latest episode
- 30 Oct 2025
Latest episodes
95 of 336 episodes have a transcript.
30 Oct 2025TRANSCRIPT
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16 Oct 2025TRANSCRIPT
Paris agreement impacts and drought realities
Inside a recent episode
How science got here, and where next
Published 30 Oct 2025 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Yeah, I mean, I think anything that we see in the US certainly has ripple effects elsewhere. And what's happening globally, we've seen a lot of theories in this information that happen in other countries and then come to the US as well. So I think it's a very poor situation. Nami? Yeah, I was going to say, my team recently did a big study on trust and science in 68 countries. And the good news is that we do see that overall levels of trust and science are pretty high in most places. So it's important that we don't go into a panic and falsely diagnose what we're facing. But what we also know from history is that these disinformation campaigns, these attacks on science that generally begin in the United States spread outward. […]
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Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.
- Michael Mann
- Naomi Oreskes
- Angie Rasmussen
- Deb Houry
- Philip Ball
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.5 / 5
- 331 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 79 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 69 / 100
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- Quality
- 98
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 99
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Who hosts Science In Action?
Roland Pease host the show. Published by BBC World Service.
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The show publishes daily, based on its RSS feed.
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