Tech Life's look back at 2025
Tech Life
BBC
4.3 • 227 Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
A selection of our favourite stories in 2025. From bringing back extinct species to AI at a royal palace. And you tell us about the tech that's made a difference to your life.
Presenter: Chris Vallance Producers: Tom Quinn and Imran Rahman-Jones
(Image: A young woman sits at a desk. A laptop computer is open on the desk. The number 2025 is projected in front of her, and she points to it with her index finger. Credit: Getty Images)
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:07.5 | It's like going into an ice bath with your hands as the ice. |
| 0:10.8 | In 2025, we were here for the entertainment. |
| 0:13.8 | Ellis and John. |
| 0:14.9 | Have you not considered just coffee, which is what I do? |
| 0:17.6 | Sightracked with Annie and Nick. |
| 0:19.4 | Stevie Wonder, welcome. |
| 0:21.4 | My pleasure. Loyal Carnar is with us. Want to hear all about Glastonbury. And Celebrity Traitors Uncloaked. Welcome to Uncloaked Island. Oh, thanks for having me, Ed. The winner. I know still hasn't sunk in. Get the best of 2025 with podcasts on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:43.0 | Hello and welcome to TechLife from the BBC World Service with me, Chris Valence. |
| 0:49.2 | Well, 2025 is almost over and as our festive season hangovers slowly dissipate, |
| 0:53.1 | we've been busy at TechLife Global Headquarters here in Scotland, |
| 0:55.9 | selecting some of our favourite bits from the shows we've made over the past year. So coming up, you'll be hearing some of this. |
| 1:05.6 | Jazzy. A bit of this? |
| 1:14.3 | Even A bit of this. Even jazzier. |
| 1:16.2 | And this. |
| 1:17.2 | It's rather embarrassing. |
| 1:18.8 | The one time, and I was 16 at the time, |
| 1:22.1 | I wasn't paying as much attention as I should have. |
| 1:24.4 | I forgot to turn it off. |
| 1:26.0 | And boom. |
| 1:44.0 | Music attention as I should have. I forgot to turn it off. And boom. Well, let's begin by talking about life itself. |
| 1:51.1 | What you can hear is a recording of the Yangtze River dolphin in China. |
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