Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

Updated: 22 Nov 2025 • 458 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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Guests: Professor Valerie Voon, Professor of Neuropsychiatry and Neuromodulation at the University of Cambridge Dr Jessamyn Fairfield of the School of Natural Sciences at the University of Galway Dr Shane Bergin, Physicist at UCD

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18 Nov 2025 • EN

Extra: The Age of Rock

Guest: Dr Anjana Khatwa, earth scientist and author of ‘The Whispers of Rock – Stories from the Earth'

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16 Nov 2025 • EN

Creating 'Mirror Life'

Guests: Kate Adamala, Associate Professor of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development at the University of Minnesota Immunologist Dr Lara Dungan Dr John Regan, Department of Theoretical Physics at Maynooth University

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Guests: Dr Emily Sanford, Postdoctoral Researcher in Psychology at the University of California Berkeley Fiona Newell, Professor of Experimental Psychology at the Trinity Institute of Neurosciences Meike Ramon, Cognitive Neuroscientist and Assistant Professor at the University of Fribourg

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09 Nov 2025 • EN

Recovering Lost Memories

Guests: Prof Jane Aspell, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and Head of the Self and Body Lab at Anglia Ruskin University Dr Ruth Freeman of Research Ireland Dr Shelley Brady, DCU

35 min
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Guest: Ana Angelova Volponi of King’s College London

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