Light the candles, cross your legs and follow the Unexpected Team as they cross the boarders of reality to ask why we believe in the illogical.
Light the candles, cross your legs and join the Unexpected Team as they journey beyond the borders of reality to ask why we believe in the illogical.
After a fraudulent psychic dupes 1.3 Americans, panellist Camilla Mota turns to history for insight into how scientists debunk such con artists. The Unexpected library harbours secrets of paranormal experimentation and dead air live on the BBC, and panellist Phillys Mwatee reveals why our beliefs win out over hard evidence written in ink. Nevertheless, in a world rife with conspiracy and vaccine hesitancy, Melissa Kapulu from the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme in Kilifi, Kenya, shares the fascinating scientific obstacles faced in the quest to eradicate malaria from Africa once and for all.
Also hear how a Nigerian Pastor and super-star has been making Melissa's job much harder, and life on fake mars.
Note to self: No ghoul or spirit observed, moving on to next show... Presenter: Alex Lathbridge, Phillys Mwatee and Camilla Mota
Producer: Harrison Lewis, Alex Mansfield and Noa Dowling
Africa’s oldest burial
Uncovering history with Little Foot's skull
Waste not, want not
Weird weather
Perseverance approaches Mars
Mixing Covid vaccines
Saving the Northern White Rhino
Gravitational waves and black holes
New variants of SARS-Cov2
Coping with Covid
2021 the year of variants
A year with Covid -19
Covid -19 – Mutations are normal
The unchecked spread of Covid-19 in Manaus
Freak weather getting even freakier
Vaccines – the Covid confusion
Covid- 19 – Good news on immunity
Covid-19 defeats US Marines
Coronavirus spreads from mink to humans
Osiris Rex stows asteroid material
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