Materialist scientist Professor Mark Miodownik challenges two-Michelin-star chef Marcus Wareing to the ultimate cookery competition. Over the course of 90 minutes they cook up some of the nation's best-loved dishes, from starter to dessert, in a head-to-head contest to see who can create the most flavoursome food. Marcus has flair, passion, and experience, while Mark an understanding of cooking at the molecular level and access to state-of-the-art technology. Ultimately the question they will try to answer is this: is cooking a science or an art?

Dara Ó Briain's Science Club is a British science television series presented by Dara Ó Briain which first aired on BBC Two in 2012. Each week, the team take one subject and explore all possible angles, combining it with studio discussions in front of a live audience, films and on the spot reports.

With creative spirit, philosophical depth and ‘Succession’ star Sarah Snook as narrator, we get the life story of carbon. Born of the stars, present within ourselves, and with the power to create and destroy. Imagine if carbon could tell us its life story. Born of the stars, present in ourselves and in everything around us, and with the power to create and destroy the world as we know it. That’s the story we get here, and it is a really good one. ‘Succession’ star Sarah Snook gives voice to the elemental with the tarnished reputation. With magnificent animation, the participation of leading scientists, and with creative spirit and philosophical depth, she tells the story – carbon herself, that is! – about what it is like to be an influential celebrity in the world of physics. And about being misunderstood and accused of taking up so much space that it could potentially jeopardise the future of the planet. Energy, climate, survival. Everything connected in the fascinating story of carbon.

Forget oil, coal and gas - a new set of materials is shaping our world and they're so bizarre they may as well be alien technology. In the first BBC documentary to be filmed entirely on smartphones, material scientist Prof Mark Miodownik reveals the super elements that underpin our high-tech world. We have become utterly dependent on them, but they are rare and they're already running out. The stuff that makes our smartphones work could be gone in a decade and our ability to feed the world depends mostly on a mineral found in just one country. Mark reveals the magical properties of these extraordinary materials and finds out what we can do to save