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A collection of links to radio and podcast episodes (in English) with a mathematics bent — to inspire teachers to inspire, to feed the minds of our young mathematicians in the making, or, simply, to entertain.  Programmes have been (loosely) categorised as shown below, and arranged alphabetically within each category by programme title.

Themes

• The History of Mathematics
• The People of Mathematics
• The Mathematics Itself
• Making Sense of things with Mathematics
• Making Sense of things with Statistics
• The Teaching of Mathematics, and the Mathematical Mind
• Other Mathematical Curios

For a list of links to the programmes from which episodes have been included in this selection, click here.  

For a list of links to a selection of other, solely maths-focused podcasts, click here.

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The History of Mathematics
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• Descarte's Meditations (16)
• Euclid’s Elements (1)
• From zero to infinity: a brief history of counting (23)
• History of the Infinite: 1 Horror of the infinite (8)
• History of the Infinite: 2 Aristotle's Rapprochment (8)
• History of the Infinite: 3 The Infinite and the Divine (8)
• History of the Infinite: 4 The Infinite and Human Experience (8)
• History of the Infinite: 5 The mathematics of the infinitely small (8)
• History of the Infinite: 6 The mathematics of the infinitely big (8)
• History of the Infinite: 7 Crisis and Uncertainty (8)
• History of the Infinite: 8 The Cosmos (8)
• History of the Infinite: 9 Death and Immortality (8)
• History of the Infinite: 10 Where Does this Leave Us? (8)
• Indian Mathematics (1)
• Indiana Jones and the Mystery of the maths Tablet (24)
• Leibniz's Monadology (16)
• Maths in the Early Islamic World (1)
• Nirvana by Numbers (15)
• Mathematics and Platonism (1)
• Renaissance maths (1)

The People of Mathematics
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• Ada Lovelace (1)
• Archimedes (1)
• Aryabhata: The Boat of Intellect (12)
• Bertrand Russel on Math and Logic (16)
• Carl Friedrich Gauss (1)
• Carl Friedrich Gauss (2)
• David Spiegelhalter (24)
• Eugenia Cheng (on the mathematics of mathematics) (14)
• Evariste Galois (2)
• The Fields Medal 2014: Manjul Bhargava (22)
• The Fields Medal 2014: Martin Hairer (22)
• The Fields Medal 2014: Artur Avila (22)
• Georg Cantor (2)
• Gödel (16)
• Gödel on Maths (16)
• Hardy and Ramanujan (2)
• Henri Poincaré (2)
• Ian Stewart (24)
• (Inside the mind of renowned mathematician) John Conway (23)
• Johannes Kepler (1)
• John Harrion and the Problem of Longitude (17)
• Joseph Fourier (2)
• Leonard Euler (2)
• Leonard Euler and Maths Communication (22)
• Marcus du Sautoy (24)
• Maryam Mirzakhani: A Genius of Maths (10)
• Matteo Ricci: Jesuit and Geometrist (15)
• The Mathematicians who helped Einstein (2)
• (James Clerk) Maxwell (1)
• Nikolas Bourbaki (2)
• Newton and Leibniz (2)
• Pascal (1)
• Paul Erdős: The Mozart of Mathematics (17)
• Pythagoras (1)
• Ramanujan (17)
• Ramanujan: The Elbow of Genius (12)
• Roger Penrose (24)
• Women of Mathematics: Anne-Christine Davis (22)
• Women of Mathematics: Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb (22)
• Women of Mathematics: Holly Krieger (22)
• Women of Mathematics: Julia Gog (22)
• Women of Mathematics: Natalia Berloff (22)
• Women of Mathematics: Nilanjana Datta (22) 

The Mathematics Itself
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• The Bagel (3)
• The Blob (3)
• Calculus (1)
• Chaos Theory (1)
• The Cube (3)
• Desperately Seeking Symmetry (19)
• A Disappearing Number (22)
• Does Infinity Exist? (22)
• e (1)
• Everything you need to know about nothing (23)
• Fermat’s Last Theorem (1)
• The Fibonacci Sequence (1)
• Game Theory (1)
• Game Theory (5)
• Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems (1)
• The Golden Ratio (4)
• Imaginary numbers (1)
• The Imaginary number (4)
• Infinity (1)
• Infinity (4)
• Kepler's Conjecture (5)
• The Largest Prime (5)
• Logic (1)
• Mathematical Modelling with Lisa Jardine (13)
• Mathematics (1)
• The mathematics of mathematics (with Eugina Cheng) (14)
• Negative Numbers (1)
• The Number Four (5)
• Numbers (19)
• The Number Seven (5)
• Numbers, Numbers Everywhere (7)
• One: The most popular number (6)
• P v NP (1)
• Pi (1)
• Pi (4)
• Pi: David Baddiel Tries to Understand (15)
• The Poincaré Conjecture (1)
• (What's so exciting about a) Prime Number (9)
• Prime Numbers (1)
• Probability (1)
• The Pyramid (3)
• The Science of Symmetry (7)
• The Sphere (3)
• Symmetry (1)
• 1729: The First Taxicab number (6)
• To Infinity and Beyond (7)
• Two: At the Double (6)
• Zeno’s Paradoxes (1)
• Zero (1)
• Zero (4)

Making Sense of things with Mathematics
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• Codes and Code-breaking: The Enigma Machine (22)
• Equations that changed the World (23)
• G: The Number that defines the Universe (6)
• The Geometry of Viruses (22)
• In love with the art of mathematics (23)
• It's All Maths! (22)
• Laws of Nature (1)
• The Magic of Maths (10)
• The Mathematical Universe (22)
• Mathematics and Music (1)
• The Mathematics of Sport (23)
• Mathematics’ Unintended Consequences (1)
• Maths and Chess (10)
• Maths and Magic (15)
• The Maths of Dating (10)
• The Maths of Infidelity (10)
• The Maths of Mozart and Birds (10)
• Maths and Storytelling (1)
• Maths of Love and Sex (7)
• The Maths of Spies and Terrorists (9)
• The Measurement Of Time (1)
• The Measurement Problem in Physics (1)
• The Multiverse (1)
• Numbers by Nature (11)
• Our Mathematical Universe (23)
• The Physics Of Time (1)
• Relativity (1)
• Six Degrees (7)
• Six Degrees of Separation (6)
• Speed (7)
• Speed (19)
• Spirit of Bach (15)
• The Speed of Light (1)
• The Universe’s Origins (1)
• The Universe’s Shape (1)
• Weights and Measures (19)
• What is a Black Hole, Mathematically? (22)

Making Sense of Things with Statistics
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• David McCandless. Transforming Data into Stories through Infographics (26)
• Debunking Guide - on a Postcard (10)
• Evaluating a Medical Treatment (22)
• The everyday mathematics of danger (23)
• The Folly of Prediction (18)
• Golden Ticket (10)
• Good Luck Professor Spiegelhalter (15)
• Hans Rosling (15)
• How to Beat the House and Win at Games (7)
• How to be Less Terrible at Predicting the Future (18)
• How to Make a Bad Decision (18)
• How to Win at Games and Beat People (18)
• Just How Rare is a Hole-In-One? (10)
• Living Standards and Kate Bush Maths (9)
• The Longest Long Shot (18)
• Random and Pseudorandom (1)
• Randomness (7)
• Risk (7)
• Statistical vigilantes: the war on scientific fraud (23)
• Statistics of the Year 2017 (10)
• The Tour De France and the Statistics of Cheating (9)
• Using Statistics in Court (9)
• Weapons of math destruction: how big data and algorithms affect our lives (23)
• What are Sigma levels? (22)

Teaching of Mathematics & the Mathematical Mind
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• Books that Help Maths Teaching (25)
• Does 'Early Education' Come Way Too Late? (18)
• How to Teach Maths (15)
• Inspiring Students with Steven Strogatz (20)
• The Mathematical Mind with Cedric Villani (13)
• Rethinking Math Class with Conrad Wolfram (21)
• Schopenhauer on Explanations and Knowledge (16)
• Teenage Brain (7)
• Think Like a Child (18)
• What is the Mind: Turing et al.  (16)
  
• What's It Like Being a Mathematician? (22)

Other Mathematical Curios
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• How maths can change your life (23)
• Lewis Carroll in Numberland (22)
• Pi: Legislating Pi (17)
• Simon Singh talks maths and The Simpsons (23)
• The Science of The Simpsons (23)
• The Seven Million Dollar maths Mystery (24)
• Would Aliens understand maths (24)

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The collection includes:
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1. Select episodes from BBC Radio 4 In Our Time 
2. All episodes from BBC Radio 4 Marcus du Sautoy's A Brief History of mathematics
3. All episodes from BBC Radio 4 Marcus du Sautoy's Five Shapes
4. All episodes from BBC Radio 4 Simon Singh's Five Numbers
5. All episodes from BBC Radio 4 Simon Singh's Another Five Numbers
6. All episodes from BBC Radio 4 Simon Singh's A Further Five Numbers
7. Select episodes from BBC Radio 4 The Infinite Monkey Cage
8. All episodes from BBC Radio 4 A History of the Infinite
9. Select episodes from BBC Radio 4 More Or Less
10. Select episodes from BBC World Service More Or Less
11. Select episodes from BBC Radio 4 Seriously
12. Select episodes from BBC Radio 4 Incarnations: India in Fifty Lives
13. Select episodes from BBC Radio 4 Start the Week
14. Select episodes from BBC Radio 4 The Life Scientific
15. Other programs from BBC Radio
16. Select episodes from The Partially Examined Life podcast
17. Select episodes from Futility Closet podcast
18. Select episodes from Freakonomics podcast
19. Select episodes from Radiolab podcast
20. Select episodes from Teach Better podcast
21. Select episodes from Modern Learners podcast
22. Select episodes from Plus Magazine podcasts
23. Select episodes from The Guardian's Science Weekly podcast
24. Select episodes from The Naked Scientists podcast
25. Select episodes from The NCETM Maths podcast
26. Select episodes from The James Altucher Show podcast

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A selection of some other maths-focused podcasts:

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• The Secrets of Mathematics podcast (audio and video), from the University of Oxford.  A 'series of talks and lectures from Oxford Mathematicians exploring the power and beauty of their subject.'


• Mr Barton Maths, a podcast of interviews from @mrbartonmaths with 'fellow teachers, bloggers, thinkers, or people of influence'.


• Mathematical Moments podcast of the American Mathematical Society @amermathsoc, with each episode being accompanied by an explanatory poster.


• RelPrime, a podcast 'featuring stories from the mathematical domain,' with @Samuel_Hansen.


• Taking Maths Further, from @furthermaths with @peterrowlett and @stecks.  Each episode 'takes a topic from the A-level Maths or Further Maths syllabus and looks at its applications.'


• New Books in Mathematics, from @NewBooksNetwork.  A podcast of 'interviews with Mathematicians about their new books.


• My Favourite Theorem, from @myfavethm with @niveknosdunk and @evelynjlamb.  A podcast dedicated to sharing guests' favourite mathematical results.