Hollywood doesn't do science many favours, playing fast and loose with the facts, letting the imagination run wild, or - worse - reinforcing stereotypes about the lone genius in the lab. The reality is rather different and the journey to successfully commercialisation of a new idea or concept is often not about the idea at all - in fact it can be about anything but.

Professor Stephen Bennington went from one of the world's biggest research facilities to the world of science and tech spin-outs. In 2011 he founded hydrogen storage company Cella Energy, and his experiences of the highs and lows on the cutting edge of science commercialisation makes him a compelling - and candid - guide in answering the billion dollar question: how do you make money from science?

Stories from Science visited Jeremy Thomas and Megan Milarski at the Abingdon Science Partnership. The ASP is an almost-unique science outreach organisation, and the reasons it's unique will become clear during the podcast. The range of activities, partnerships, workshops, training and clubs - leveraging the resources of an independent school to benefit the whole community is inspiring and offers a template for others to follow.

We also uncover the concept of 'Science Capital' - a theme that will develop over the coming months in other podcasts we have planned...

In this episode, we travel to the hottest place in the Solar System. No, not the Sun, but somewhere right on our doorstep. The Culham Centre for Fusion Energy is home to JET, the world's largest fusion research facility which regularly generates temperatures of 100 million degrees centigrade.

We speak to Zoltan Kollo and Sarah Medley, two members of the tritium engineering team who help prepare and place the hydrogen fuel at the heart of this Sun right here on Earth.

In this episode of Stories from Science, we interview founder Mark Thornton who explains just why Abingdon is such a special place in the world of science, and the science-focused community of people that live and work in Oxfordshire's Science Vale.