Relive this year's Cheltenham Science Festival held in June 2009

Click on this link to subscribe to the podcast series in iTunes . Highlights include:

- Chef Heston Blummenthal experimenting with different foodstuffs tries to create the perfect taste.

- Would you prefer a robot or a human surgeon? Professor of Surgery Ara Darzi joins Professor of Medical Robotics Brian Davies and Robert Winston to discuss the nature of healing and the role of the surgeon in 21st century medicine.

- Psychologist Bruce Hood explores why irrational superstitious beliefs are part of the very essence of human society.

- Jim Al-Khalili joins Lyn Evans, project leader for CERN's Large Hadron Collider, astrophysicist Martin Barstow and space scientist Maggie Aderin on how the Collider helps to explore our universe and its origins.

- Debating how your DNA affects your health with Mark Henderson, Science Editor of The Times and Kari Stefansson, Chief Executive Officer of Icelandic genetic testing company, deCODE .

- When science goes wrong, eminent scientists like Sir Robert Winston relive their most embarrassing lab mistakes.

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