Neuroscientist Kevin Mitchell, author of the book Innate, talks us through the development of our minds and what we can understand of how living entities come to see value and meaning from simple goals.

Exeter University professor of animal cognition, Dr Alex Thornton chats with me about the minds of meerkats and jackdaws.

Psychologist Charles Fernyhough discusses his research on the phenomenon of "hearing voices", and what the studies can tell us about minds and neurodiversity.

Best-selling author of the book Kindred, archaeologist Rebecca Wragg-Sykes chats with Melanie about the intelligence of Neanderthals and what their skill with technology might reveal about their kind of mind.

Renowned professor of comparative cognition, Nicola Clayton, discusses episodic memory in crows, jays, magpies, and cuttlefish.

A fascinating conversation with Carl Safina on the intelligence and culture of other animals, and how we should think about the rest of the living world.

Best-selling author of The Soul of an Octopus, Sy Montgomery talks with Melanie about animal minds and the special species she's connected with over the years.

A discussion of the biological origins of empathy and the cognition of primates with world renowned primatologist Frans de Waal.

A conversation with science writer Philip Ball on the myths of mind that have affected us and how to think about minds in new and revolutionary ways.

Diver and philosopher, Peter Godfrey-Smith, author of Other Minds and Metazoa, among other works, discusses the origins of consciousness deep under the sea...