Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea
Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea
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Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

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Jonathan responds to your texts and tweets, is joined in studio for all the latest science stories for Newsround and speaks to one of our two guests featured on the show.

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What happens during a hallucination?
22 March 2026

What happens during a hallucination?

Guests:Dr Anna Georgiades, Lecturer in Early Intervention in Psychosis at King's College LondonDr Ruth FreemanDr John Regan
Extra: The Origins of Our Musical Ability 
17 March 2026

Extra: The Origins of Our Musical Ability 

Guest: Dr Ani Patel, Tufts University, Massachusetts
How The Brain Can Recover Forgotten Memories
15 March 2026

How The Brain Can Recover Forgotten Memories

Guests:Dr Benjamin J. Griffiths, University of NottinghamDr Ruth Freeman, Research IrelandDr Tara Shine, Environmental Scientist
Extra: Why animals see the world at different speeds
10 March 2026

Extra: Why animals see the world at different speeds

Guest: Dr Kevin Healy, Lecturer in Zoology at the University of Galway
What you don’t know about respiration
08 March 2026

What you don’t know about respiration

Guests:New York Times bestselling author and Science Journalist James NestorDr Ruth FreemanDr Lara Dungan
Extra: What influences your willingness to be helpful towards strangers?
03 March 2026

Extra: What influences your willingness to be helpful towards strangers?

Guest: Dr Todd Vogel, Research Fellow in Psychology at the University of Birmingham
Clothes with health tracking technology
01 March 2026

Clothes with health tracking technology

Guests:Professor Steve Beeby, Chair in Emerging Technologies and Director of the Centre for Flexible Electronics and E-Textiles at the University of SouthamptonDr Tara Shine, Environemental ScientistProfessor Matthew Campbell, Head of Department at the Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Trinity College Dublin
Extra: What drives the power of our tides and waves?
24 February 2026

Extra: What drives the power of our tides and waves?

Guest: Prof Iris Möller, Coastal Geomorphologist and Chair of the Geography Department at Trinity College Dublin
Predicting Scorpion Strikes
22 February 2026

Predicting Scorpion Strikes

Guests:Dr Michel Dugon, Assistant Professor in Zoology and Principal Investigator of the Venom Systems Lab at the University of GalwayDr Jessamyn Fairfield, Lecturer in the School of Natural Sciences at the University of GalwayDr Laura Hayes, Research Fellow at the School of Cosmic Physics at DIAS
Extra: Does the Earth’s core hide vast hydrogen reservoirs?
17 February 2026

Extra: Does the Earth’s core hide vast hydrogen reservoirs?

Guest:With Prof Jon Wade, Associate Professor of Planetary Materials, Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford