Professor Jim Al-Khalili
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535 appearances
4 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 15 Jun
Professor Jim Al-Khalili’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Dean, let's talk about your broadcasting work.
In 2015, you got your first big presenter gig on the ITV documentary Dinosaur Britain, for which you were also the scientific advisor.
How did you enjoy that experience?
Well,
Absolutely of course a huge part of your career has been field work doing the actual science we've already touched on a couple of your discoveries but I want to hear about a few more in 2016 you got word that something special might have been discovered on the Somerset coast.
And that's not even the end of the story, is it?
Because a few years later, you got word that another gigantic jawbone had been found, again, down on the Somerset Coast.
I gather there's even a documentary film in the works, isn't there?
Let's talk about perhaps your most famous discovery, the Rutland Sea Dragon.
What a fantastic name.
It's one of the most complete large prehistoric marine reptiles ever found in Britain.
It's difficult to do this on radio, but...
I mean, just so that people don't get overexcited by any old odd-shaped rock or an old pipe, what should we be looking for if we're on the hunt for genuine prehistoric fossils?
There's one final discovery I'd like to mention, Dean, that you published in the journal Nature last year.
This was an unprecedented finding of the first soft tissues of a large ichthyosaur, which revealed some rather special features.
And this is the sort of thing that has huge potential in the field of biomimicry, that, you know, we see how nature's evolved these clever tricks and we try and copy them.
Might these ichthyosaur traits have some use in modern design?
And having fun, as you say, is very important because I've certainly had fun chatting to you.
Dean Lomax, thank you very much for sharing your life scientific.
My great pleasure.
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