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Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

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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Futureproof Extra: 13 Minutes to the Moon & Chemical Weapons

Jonathan was at the Cheltenham Science Festival 2019, where some of the brightest minds and communicators in science and technology came together to discuss an incredible array or topics and issues. Caitriona McLeish, a Senior Fellow at SPRU at the University of Sussex and co-director of the Harvard Sussex Program on Chemical and Biological Weapons & Brett Edwards, security and policy specialist join Jonathan to discuss the history of chemical warfare and ask - are we doing enough to prevent chemical weapons falling into the wrong hands? Kevin Fong, doctor and space scientist also joins Jonathan to discuss his podcast '13 Minutes to the Moon' - 50 years on from the Apollo 11 mission.