''Science in Action'' is a long-running weekly radio programme produced by the

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and currently hosted by British journalists Roland Pease and Marnie Chesterton, and scientist and broadcaster Professor

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. It is broadcast on Thursdays at 18.32

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and repeated twice the following day, at 01.32 and 08.32. A programme with the title ''Science in Action'' is believed to have begun life in 1964, when it replaced an earlier series, dating from the 1950s, called ''Science and Industry''. From September 1965 a short-lived series called ''Science in Action'' ran on the

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; it was broadcast at 19.30 on Thursdays, later 21.30. In December 1965 it was moved to 14.30 on Fridays. The present weekly World Service series, also called ''Science in Action'', began on Saturday 7 July 1979.

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