Driven by a fascination with the natural world, Victoria Gill believes we would all be happier if we knew the stories behind the organisms and materials we interact with every day.
Why you should listen
BBC Science correspondent Victoria Gill covers news stories on a range of subjects, from NASA's missions to Mars to the link between the extreme 2019 European heatwave and climate change. She wrote and presented BBC Our World's In the Shadow of Chernobyl documentary in 2019, and her radio documentary The Whale Menopause won an AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Gold Award in 2017.