This week's show is dedicated to the yin and yang of international science prizes, the Nobels and the Ig Nobels.
The science Nobels were announced last week by the Swedish Nobel Foundation and recognise great breakthroughs in medicine or physiology, physics and chemistry and have in recent years become inseparable from the younger upstarts, the Ig Nobels, which celebrate the wacky, unconventional and anarchic in great science and were handed out at Harvard University the previous week.
Alok Jha is joined by science writer and editor Simon Frantz, who founded the Nobel Prize Watch blog, and by Guardian science correspondent Ian Sample.
