Jo Marchant

journalist and author

Broadcast

Jo Marchant is presenter of the acclaimed BBC Radio 4 series More Wow, an exploration of the life-changing power of awe. More Wow was produced by Eliza Lomas and first aired in September 2024.

Radio appearances

  • The Antikythera mechanism
    In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, November 2024 Listen here
  • Merlin Sheldrake and Jo Marchant
    A Good Read, BBC Radio 4, June 2023 Listen here
  • The scientific exploration of astrology
    The Curious Cases of Rutherford & Fry, BBC Radio 4, December 2021 Listen here
  • The bejewelled rings of the Antikythera mechanism
    Inside Science, BBC Radio 4, March 2021 Listen here
  • The Antikythera mechanism and the shipwreck
    Science in Action, BBC World Service, September 2016 Listen here
  • Jo Marchant discusses the relationship between mind and body
    Start the Week, BBC Radio 4, February 2016 Listen here
  • How meditation, placebos and virtual reality help power mind over body
    Fresh Air, NPR, January 2016 Listen here
  • Jo Marchant tells the story of the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient Greek model of the cosmos.
    Start the Week, BBC Radio 4, November 2008 Listen here

Podcast appearances

  • How AI is making 2000-year-old scrolls readable again
    Smithsonian’s There’s More to That, February 2024 Listen here
  • The Human Cosmos: A secret history of the stars
    Boston Athenaeum, December 2021 Listen here
  • The world’s oldest computer
    New Scientist weekly podcast, March 2021 Listen here
  • The cosmos and us
    New Humanist’s Within Reason, March 2021 Listen here
  • A secret history of the stars, with Helen Czerski
    Intelligence Squared, September 2020 Listen here
  • The Human Cosmos
    Science Book Shambles, June 2020 Listen here
  • Jo Marchant’s The Human Cosmos
    Little Atoms, June 2020 Listen here
  • Understand the potential – and limits – of your mind’s effects on your body
    The Art of Charm, July 2016 Listen here
  • How do placebos work? The science of mind over body
    The Guardian, Science Weekly, March 2016 Listen here
  • Jo Marchant talks to Neil Denny about The Shadow King
    Little Atoms, September 2013 Listen here
  • Jo Marchant talks to Alok Jha about the history, science, politics – and curse – of King Tut’s mummy
    The Guardian, Science Weekly, June 2013 Listen here
  • Jo Marchant joins the pod to talk about the mysterious Antikythera mechanism, found in the Mediterranean more than a century ago.
    The Guardian, Science Weekly podcast, October 2008 Listen here