All episodes
Thursday, 9 May 2019
- 8:00 Copper - essential, in moderation
- 8:00 Curium & meitnerium - in honour of two pioneering women
- 9:05 Our Changing World for 9 May 2019
- 9:06 Kea get a helping hand
Thursday, 2 May 2019
- 8:00 Chromium - colourful and shiny
- 3:45 Glad and sad kākāpō tidings
- 9:05 Our Changing World for 2 May 2019
- 9:06 Laser scanning crime scenes
- 8:00 Cobalt - goblin of the periodic table
Thursday, 25 April 2019
- 8:00 Carbon - life & times of the 'king of elements'
- 8:00 Cerium - combustible and confusing
- 9:05 Our Changing World for 25 April 2019
- 9:06 Lava Lab and drilling into a volcano's magma chamber
- 8:00 Chlorine - good for health, bad for health
Thursday, 18 April 2019
- 8:00 Caesium - the time-keeper
- 8:00 Calcium - strength and beauty
- 12:00 Longest kākāpō breeding season
- 9:05 Our Changing World for 18 April 2019
- 9:06 Finding DNA in fingerprints
Thursday, 11 April 2019
- 8:00 Bromine - the colour purple and poison gas
- 8:00 Cadmium - colour and quantum dots
- 9:05 Our Changing World for 11 April 2019
- 9:06 How enzymes respond to rising temperatures
Thursday, 4 April 2019
- 8:00 Boron - made by cosmic rays, useful in the kitchen
- 12:00 Kākāpō chicks still hatching
- 9:05 Our Changing World for 4 April 2019
- 9:06 Science of a 'mega mast' & planning wide-scale predator control
Thursday, 28 March 2019
- 8:00 Berkelium and the synthetic heavyweights
- 7:00 Kotahitanga and kākāpō
- 8:00 Beryllium - sweet and precious, but deadly
- 9:05 Our Changing World for 28 March 2019
- 9:06 Caves reveal past climate change
- 8:00 Bismuth - an unusual heavy metal
Thursday, 21 March 2019
- 8:00 Astatine - awfully rare
- 5:30 Fat happy kākāpō chicks
- 8:00 Barium - never found on its own
- 9:05 Our Changing World for 21 March 2019
Thursday, 14 March 2019
- 8:00 Arsenic - the well-known poison
- 5:00 PM's science prize winners include a crime-busting software team
- 9:05 Our Changing World for 14 March 2018
- 9:06 Young physicist wins the PM's Future Scientist Prize
- 9:07 We need to talk about climate change, says science prize winner
- 9:08 Crime-busting software package wins PM's Science Prize
Thursday, 7 March 2019
- 8:00 Antimony - takes lives, saves lives
- 5:00 Kākāpō helpers
- 9:05 Our Changing World for 7 March 2019
- 9:06 Bull kelp genes and earthquake uplift - a surprising connection
- 8:00 Argon - every breath you take
Thursday, 28 February 2019
- 8:00 Aluminium - light & versatile
- 5:00 Americium - a radioactive, domestic do-gooder
- 9:05 Our Changing World for 28 February 2019
- 5:30 Kākāpō rangers
Thursday, 21 February 2019
- 8:00 Tales from the periodic table
- 5:00 Flying kākāpō sperm
- 9:05 Our Changing World for 21 February 2019
- 9:06 Plastic pollution in streams - a citizen science effort
- 8:00 Actinium - rare & radioactive
Thursday, 14 February 2019
- 11:00 On the island
- 9:05 Our Changing World for 14 February 2019
- 9:06 Fush 'n' chups and the Kiwi accent
Thursday, 7 February 2019
- 5:30 The chicks are hatching
- 5:30 Round two begins
- 9:05 Our Changing World for 7 February 2019
- 9:06 Archey's frogs thriving in the King Country
Thursday, 20 December 2018
- 9:05 Our Changing World for 20 December 2018
- 9:06 NZ tree nettle ongaonga could offer pain relief for Guillain-Barré
- 9:07 Salps - a surprising jelly-like relative
Thursday, 6 December 2018
- 9:05 Our Changing World for 6 December 2018
- 9:06 Place names tell a story about lost species
- 9:07 Muscle wasting and 'skinny fat' in old age