Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

Updated: 26 Aug 2025 • 433 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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With Dr David McKeown, Assistant Professor at the UCD Centre for Space Research.

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With Dr Larry Bacon, Consultant Haematologist from St James’s Hospital, and Dr Nicola Gardiner, Chief Medical Scientist at the Cryobiology Laboratory Stem Cell Facility at St James’s. Newsround with Dr Ruth Freeman from Research Ireland and science communicator Fergus McAuliffe.

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Guest: Eamonn Mallon, Professor of Evolutionary Biology at the University of Leicester

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Guests: Ciara Greene, Associate Professor in the School of Psychology at UCD, where she heads up the Attention and Memory Laboratory Dr Lara Dungan, Immunologist Dr Tara Shine of Change By Degrees

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Guest: Patrick Condon, former Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon at University Hospital Waterford and author of ‘Eye Healthcare – 90 Years of Progress’

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Guests: Yale Neuroscientist Vaughn Steele Dr Shane Bergin, UCD Sciene Writer Dr Claire O'Connell

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