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Halloween Special! This week, the studio is invaded by a Dalek…. well not really, it’s actually Nicholas Briggs, the man behind the voice of the Daleks on Doctor Who. He talks to us about the technology used to generate the voices of the Daleks and how they are operated. Our final Back to Black profile [...]

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Science Cafe & Green Rebound Effects This week, Huw James pops into the studio to talk about the new season of talks at the Cardiff Science Cafe which starts up again next week. He is joined by Ian Lewis from Tenovus who is giving the first talk in November. Patricia Bath is profiled in Back [...]

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Challenging the Establishment & the Bleachgate  Scandal This week, we talk to Piers Bizony about Normalisation of Deviance, a term used to describe the situation where individuals repeatedly accept a lower standard of performance until that standard becomes the norm. He gives examples of things going wrong when managers ignore the warnings of the engineers. [...]

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The Gadget Census & Chile’s Great Mine Escape On this week’s show, we talk to Kris Sangini about the results of the 2010 Gadget Census. He looks back at what gadgets we had ten years ago and how things have changed. In Back to Black, Craig Smith profiles American engineer and inventor, Norman Rillieux and [...]

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Black History Month & The Large Hadron Collider This week, we launch our new feature, Back to Black in which we profile a different black scientist, engineer or inventor every week throughout October to commemorate Black History Month. We talk to Emeka Obiodu about the important role that black people have played in the history [...]

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