24K
Downloads
26
Episodes
Professor Turi King is a scientist, presenter, speaker and author who is passionate about communicating science to the public. She is best known for her work in ”cracking one of the biggest forensic DNA cases in history” during the exhumation and reburial of Richard III of England. She is also currently featuring on BBC2‘s DNA Family Secrets, produced by Minnow films.
Episodes
Sunday Jan 30, 2022
DNA Family Secrets: Who is my birth mother? Margaret’s story
Sunday Jan 30, 2022
Sunday Jan 30, 2022
Around three-quarters of a million people in the UK are adopted, but before the law changed in 1975, most adoptees never knew the identity of their birth parents. Margaret was adopted when she was just six months old.
Saturday Jan 22, 2022
DNA Family Secrets: What happened to my father? Bill’s story
Saturday Jan 22, 2022
Saturday Jan 22, 2022
Around a million of us in the UK grow up without any contact with our fathers. 75-year-old Bill has never met his dad. During World War II 240,000 African American GIs were stationed in the UK, many had relationships with local women, which resulted in the birth of two thousand mixed-race babies. Bill is one of them.
Tuesday Jan 04, 2022
The genetics of taste - Professor Turi King
Tuesday Jan 04, 2022
Tuesday Jan 04, 2022
Hands up who likes brussel sprouts? How are you with broccoli? I ask because we know that our genetic make-up goes some way to explaining whether you’ll be fine eating some foods, such as broccoli and brussel sprouts, that others find too bitter to nibble on.
Wednesday Dec 15, 2021
We are all related to royalty - Professor Turi King
Wednesday Dec 15, 2021
Wednesday Dec 15, 2021
On an episode of 'Who Do You Think You Are?' the comedian, Josh Widdicombe, found out he was descended from King Edward I. Just how common is this being related to royalty. Is it some sort of celebrity thing or are we all related to royalty? Basically, the answer is yes. We’re all related to royalty, it’s simply a matter of degree. The stumbling block to proving it is finding the documentary evidence.
Friday Dec 10, 2021
DNA Family Secrets: Who is my biological father? Richard‘s story
Friday Dec 10, 2021
Friday Dec 10, 2021
Around 1 in 50 people do not have the biological father they think they have. 53-year-old Richard discovered he wasn’t blood related to the man who raised him and came to DNA Family Secrets seeking answers.
Wednesday Dec 01, 2021
Wednesday Dec 01, 2021
Are the remains in the urn in Westminster Abbey really those of the Princes in the Tower? And how could scientific analysis help answer this question?
Saturday Nov 27, 2021
The Sperm Donor‘s Dilemma - Professor Turi King
Saturday Nov 27, 2021
Saturday Nov 27, 2021
Professor Turi King discusses the implications of wide spread use of DNA matching services and being a sperm donor or a sperm donor child.
Friday Sep 17, 2021
Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys and the discovery of DNA Fingerprinting
Friday Sep 17, 2021
Friday Sep 17, 2021
On the morning of Monday September 10th, 1984, Alec Jeffreys, an as yet little-known scientist was looking at a result of an experiment, he’d set running the week previous. He was trying to look at genetic variation between individuals as a way of looking at how diseases might run in families. But what he was about to discover, was a technique that would change the world.
Professor Turi King speaks with those involved in the discovery and its first use in a criminal investigation.