You're about to listen to a BBC podcast and trust me you'll get there in a moment but if you're a comedy fan

I'd really like to tell you a bit about what we do. I'm Julie Mackenzie and I commission comedy

podcast at the BBC. It's a bit of a dream job really.

Comedy is a fantastic joyous thing to do because really you're making people laugh,

making people's days a bit better, helping them process, all manner of things.

But you know I also know that comedy is really

subjective and everyone has different tastes so we've got a huge range of comedy on offer

from satire to silly shocking to soothing profound to just general pratting about. So if you

fancy a laugh, find your next comedy at BBC Sounds.

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Welcome to the podcast of the Life Scientific.

We all expect to have access to the power we need when we need it, and my guest today has spent much of his life

making sure that we do. Delivering electricity to the nation is a challenge and

if we're all going to drive electric cars and rely much more heavily on energy

from renewable sources, then this challenge is about to get a lot, lot harder.

Jim McDonald grew up in Glasgow and worked as a transmission and distribution engineer for the

South of Scotland Electricity Board, now Scottish Power, for many years. These days he's a

non-executive director of Scottish Power and president of the Royal Academy of Engineering.

He joined Strathclyde University in 1984 and has been there ever since, doing pioneering research

into how large power networks actually work and helping to solve problems

in the real world.

Achieving net zero CO2 emissions will need some clever electrical engineering and a radical overhaul of our

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