Senescence
Senescence () or biological aging is the gradual deterioration of functional characteristics in living organisms. The word senescence can refer to either cellular senescence or to senescence of the whole organism.
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Death
Melvyn Bragg discusses the development of Western philosophy on the subject of death and examines how it has helped to shape our culture, literature, attitudes and rituals.
4 May 2000
Featuring: Jonathan Dollimore, Thomas Lynch, Marilyn Butler
Free Radicals
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the reactive atoms and molecules, with single unpaired electrons, linked to the process of ageing as well as normal cell functioning
1 November 2018
Featuring: Nick Lane, Anna Croft, Mike Murphy