On the air weekly for 30+ years, Australia's legendary The Science Show ranks with PBS's Nova.
The Science Show is one of the flagship productions of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and arguably the finest hour long science-oriented radio show available in the English language. Australian Robin Williams, who has hosted the show for the last 30 something years, seems to be able to get any Nobel Prize winning scientist in the world on the phone on short notice, and often does. Even when the shows concern a uniquely Australian issue, the science behind the issue is frequently mindblowing, and worthy of a world audience. (Also worthy of a world audience is Australia's other great science show, Originz, a privately produced podcast.) The Science Show is one of those rare science shows that, while aimed at a mass audience, doesn't compromise the intelligence of its content for popularity's sake. Major league!!Read full review »
amreview1 via Apple Podcasts · United States of America · 05/12/09
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Items that stretch the imagination, challenge preconceptions, or just spark your interest - everything from your high school science project to the academic's update. Just under an hour a week of fascinating material presented in language everyone can understand.Read full review »
Miss Caz via Apple Podcasts · Australia · 05/05/06
I think it’s time the ABC sent Williams out to pasture, if I wanted a podcast on classical music and poetry I’d subscribe to it. Get the people in that do extras over the Xmas break and punt the old guy!
jim#22 via Apple Podcasts · Australia · 02/17/20
The science show has for many years been a shining example of the amazing talent available in the ABC. Australia is so lucky to have broadcasting of this incredible standard, and now it is available to the world's pods. Not to be missed-- an hour not listening to the Science Show is an hour...Read full review »
ros comain via Apple Podcasts · Australia · 11/22/06
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