''Formula Five'' was a British science magazine programme on BBC Radio 5 aimed at listeners in their late teens. It ran from 1990 to 1994, when the network closed.

Sue Nelson Susan Nelson (born 5 June 1961) is a science writer and broadcaster. She is a former BBC science correspondent. Early life and education Nelson studied physics at University College Cardiff. She won a Knight-Wallace Fellowship at the Univers ...

presented the program for most of its time on air, with

Jez Nelson Jeremy Nelson MBE (born 1 April 1964) is a jazz broadcaster and television producer. Education Nelson was educated at Dulwich College (a boys' independent school in Dulwich, South London) and at King's College London, where he first began to D ...

co-presenting the final series.

Quentin Cooper Quentin Cooper (born 1961, Grimsby) is a science journalist and facilitator, who presented BBC Radio 4's '' Material World'' from 2000 to 2013. He speaks at science festivals and lectures, and works regularly with science and educational organ ...

was a regular contributor. As well as science, the series featured a running serial of '' Captain Scarlet'', using soundtracks from the television series of the same name.

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1990 radio programme debuts BBC Radio 5 (former) Science radio programmes Youth science {{UK-radio-show-stub 1994 radio programme endings