''Science in Action'' is a long-running weekly radio programme produced by the
BBC World Service
The BBC World Service is an international broadcaster owned and operated by the BBC, with funding from the British Government through the Foreign Secretary's office. It is the world's largest external broadcaster in terms of reception a ...
and currently hosted by British journalists Roland Pease and Marnie Chesterton, and scientist and broadcaster Professor
Adam Hart
Adam Hart is an English scientist, author and broadcaster, specialising in ecology, entomology and conservation, especially in southern Africa. He has co-presented three BBC TV documentaries on social insects (BBC4's ''Planet Ant: Life Inside ...
. It is broadcast on Thursdays at 18.32
GMT and repeated twice the following day, at 01.32 and 08.32.
A programme with the title ''Science in Action'' is believed to have begun life in 1964, when it replaced an earlier series, dating from the 1950s, called ''Science and Industry''.
From September 1965 a short-lived series called ''Science in Action'' ran on the
Home Service; it was broadcast at 19.30 on Thursdays, later 21.30. In December 1965 it was moved to 14.30 on Fridays. The present weekly World Service series, also called ''Science in Action'', began on Saturday 7 July 1979.
See also
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Inside Science
''Inside Science'' is a science programme broadcast on BBC Radio Four. It is normally broadcast from 4:30 to 5 p.m. on Thursday, and is repeated 9 to 9:30 p.m. on Thursday. It is normally presented by Adam Rutherford, but may occasionally be ...
'', radio programme on BBC Radio Four
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BBC World Service programmes
Science podcasts
Science in society
1979 radio programme debuts
Science radio programmes
Science education in the United Kingdom
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