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''The Naked Scientists'' is a one-hour audience-interactive

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radio talk show broadcast live by the

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, nationally by BBC Radio 5 Live and internationally on ABC Radio National, Australia; it is also distributed globally as a

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. The programme was created and is edited by

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consultant virologist Dr Chris Smith. Former ''Naked Scientists'' line-up members include producer
Phil SansomAdam Murphy
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Katie Haylor
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adding ad-hoc technology perspectives.

History

Dr Chris Smith launched ''The Naked Scientists'' in 2001, rebranding the programme from a previous incarnation created in 2000 called ''ScienceWorld''. Initially on commercial local radio, the show moved to the BBC's eastern region local radio network in 2003 where it was aired on Sundays on all 8 stations across the region. In August 2012,

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in response to national changes to local radio provision announced an impending change to the Sunday schedule which would have seen the show discontinued. In response to public reaction, the head of BBC East, Mick Rawsthorne, was interviewed on national radio about the decision to end the programme. Rawsthorne explained that the ''Naked Scientists'' did not fit the station's core purpose of providing "local radio". However, Rawsthorne did acknowledge the quality of the ''Naked Scientists'' programming and recognised that, with Cambridge University at the heart of Cambridgeshire, special consideration should be made for science in Cambridgeshire. Consequently, the BBC reconsidered their decision to terminate the programme and developed a proposal for it to continue as well as a way for enhanced scientific coverage and content to be integrated with other mainstream mid-week outputs of

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, significantly increasing the reach of the programme and the representation of science at

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. From January 2013, a new initiative involving the Naked Scientists also began on

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. A dedicated hour of science Q and A was included in the station's Tea Time output (hosted by Matthew Gudgin) on alternate Wednesday evenings at 6pm. Listeners call, text, tweet or email with questions on any scientific subject and the team answer them. From January 2013, the ''Naked Scientists'' programme also began to air across Australia on

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, initially on a Sunday morning. From January 2014 the first airing of the programme was moved to a Friday evening 10pm slot, repeated on Sundays at 3pm. This show is also released as the Naked Scientists Podcast. Launched in May 2014, ''5 live Science'' is a new weekly one-hour programme from the Naked Scientists aired by

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. Under the banner ''5 live Science'', it's a newly formatted version of the show produced by the Naked Scientists team and fronted by Dr Chris Smith; it airs nationally every Sunday morning. The programme is also released as a podcast under the same name.

Awards

Content

Each episode of the main ''Naked Scientists'' programme is one hour long and includes a digest of topical science news stories, audience questions answered live on the air and interviews with 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,

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, the

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Sir

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, and the co-discoverer of DNA structure,

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. The show also features on-location reports and interviews, and an ad-hoc interactive segment called ''Kitchen Science'' where listeners are encouraged to attempt a science experiment at home during the show. Kitchen Science experiments have included building a desktop

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, a chocolate teapot and a

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powered bottle rocket. The Kitchen Science segment also hosts experiments that listeners may not be able to do at home, such as generating

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from Sticky Tape with Dr Carlos Camara of

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and testing how much fat would stop a bullet with researchers at

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Other media

The Naked Scientists appeared on TV Channel Five's

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'' The What in the World? Quiz'' and have contributed to the 2007

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programme "The Farm Revealed". In September 2008, with the

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, the Naked Scientists launched a new UK national radio edition of their programme, ''The Naked Scientists - Up All Night'' (subsequently renamed "Breaking Science") which was broadcast on

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for 12 months before finishing in 2009. In November 2008, with the

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, a series entitled ''The Naked Scientists In Africa'' began on

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, the

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. ''The Naked Scientists in Africa'' was produced by Naked Scientist team-member Meera Senthilingam, incorporating international science news and a focus on science stories originating in, or pertinent to, African countries. This project ran until 2010.

References

External links

The Naked Scientists website

Naked Scientists Podcast
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