Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

Updated: 08 Jul 2025 • 419 episodes
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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. Listen and subscribe to Futureproof with Johnathan McCrea on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Download, listen and subscribe on the Newstalk App.   You can also listen to Newstalk live on newstalk.com or on Alexa, by and asking: 'Alexa, play Newstalk'

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We recently got an email in from a listener to the show about a topic they thought we should cover, and we’d encourage you to get in touch too if there is something you’d like to learn more about – science@newstalk.com. The email was from Dr John Regan, the Royal Society - SFI University Research Fellow in the Departme

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Guest: Dr Christian Ginski, School of Natural Sciences at the University of Galway

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Guests: Dr David Duffy, Assistant Professor of Wildlife Disease Genomics at the University of Florida Dr Thomas Davies, Associate Professor of Marine Conservation at the University of Plymouth

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Guests: Eoin Murphy & Shelley Brady Dr Bob Brier AKA Egyptologist 'Mr Mummy'

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