The Naked Scientists
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| The Naked Scientists | |
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The Naked Scientists Radio Show & Podcast |
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| Format | Science Talk radio / Podcast |
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| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Country |  United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Broadcast Time | Sundays, 6-7 p.m. UK time |
| Broadcast Area | BBC Radio in the East of England
Worldwide Online and as a Podcast |
| Frequency | BBC Radio Cambridgeshire - 96.0 & 95.7 FM
BBC Essex - 103.5 & 95.3 FM BBC Radio Norfolk - 95.1 & 104.4 FM 855 & 873 AM BBC Radio Northampton - 104.2 and 103.6 FM BBC Radio Suffolk - 103.9, 104.6, 95.5 & 95.9 FM Online - BBC Radio Player |
| Website | TheNakedScientists.com |
| iTunes | Find us on the iTunes store |
| Archive | All our podcasts are available here |
| Podcast Feed | Naked Scientists Podcast.xml |
| Contact | Email the Naked Scientists here |
The Naked Scientists is a one-hour audience-interactive science radio talk show, broadcast live by the BBC in the East of England, and internationally as a podcast. The programme was created by Cambridge University clinical lecturer Chris Smith. He also hosts the show with other scientists.
Each episode is one hour long and includes a digest of topical science news stories, audience questions answered live on the air, a competition phone-in, and interviews with two or more guest scientists. These individuals join the hosts in the studio to talk about their work and to take questions live from listeners. Previous featured guests include the discoverer of the DNA fingerprint, Alec Jeffreys, the astronomer royal Sir Martin Rees, and the co-discoverer of DNA structure, James D. Watson.
The Naked Scientists were in the top 5 finalists in the 2006 World Podcast Awards and received two nominations, for "best produced" and "best science and technology podcast" in the 2007 awards.
Another claim to fame is the prodigious amount of bandwidth consumed by the programme's podcast, which regularly exceeds 4TB (terabytes) of downloads per month.
The show also won the Bioscience Federation Prize for Science Communication, 2006, and the JOSH Award 2007.
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