Dr Adam Rutherford

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Dr Adam Rutherford is an award-winning geneticist, broadcaster, and author.

He presents BBC Radio 4’s flagship cultural discussion programme Start The Week. In his latest BBC Radio 4 series, The Human Subject, he and Julia Shaw reveal true stories of unethical experiments and unimaginable endurance.


Adam wrote and co-hosted the popular BBC Radio 4 podcast ‘The Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry’, alongside Hannah Fry, has appeared on 10 episodes of the Infinite Monkey Cage and was the host of BBC Inside Science for 8 years.

Adam’s engaging style and broad expertise makes him a prominent voice in communicating complex scientific ideas to the public. He has presented numerous documentaries, exploring topics such as AI and robotics, the inheritance of intelligence, MMR and autism, astronomy and art and scientific fraud, and most recently the award winning Bad Blood: the story of Eugenics.

He has presented many TV documentaries, including The Beauty of Anatomy (BBC4), Horizon: Playing God (BBC2), The Gene Code (BBC4) and The Cell (BBC4).

Adam has authored eight best-selling books including Creation (2014), The Book of Humans (2018), and A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived (2016), which was praised as ‘nothing less than a tour de force.’ His first children’s book, Where Are You Really From? (2023) won The Week Junior Book 2024 Award for best science book. Adam has also worked as science advisor on many movies, including Ex Machina (2015), Annihilation (2018), Life (2017), The Kingsman (2014), and A Quiet Place Day 1 (2024).

Adam gives talks all over the world, discussing his work on human evolution, data, race, racism, eugenics, hip-hop and genetics. He received the Royal Society David Attenborough award for outstanding public engagement with science.

Television

The Beauty of Anatomy
Presenter
BBC Four2016
Horizon: Playing God
Presenter
BBC Two2011 — 2012
The Gene Code
Presenter
BBC Four 2011
The Cell
Presenter
BBC Four2009

Radio

Start of The Week
Presenter
BBC Radio 42013 — 2024
The Human Subject
Presenter
BBC Radio 42024
The Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry
Presenter
BBC Radio 42016 — 2023
Bad Blood: The Story of Eugenics
Presenter
BBC Radio 4 2022
Infinite Monkey Cage: The Science of Symmetry
Guest
BBC Radio 42012

Books

Adam Rutherford

Where Are You Really From?

Adam Rutherford

Rutherford and Fry’s Complete Guide to Absolutely Everything

Adam Rutherford

How To Argue With a Racist

Adam Rutherford

The Book of Humans

Adam Rutherford

A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived

News

KBJ Signs Tom Holland & Adam Rutherford

15th October 2024

KBJ Management is delighted to announce the signing of two new clients

Podcasts

Curious Cases
Drs Adam Rutherford and Hannah Fry are on hand to solve everyday mysteries sent in by listeners.
BBC Inside Science
A weekly Science and Technology podcast featuring Marnie Chesterton and Adam Rutherford.
Not Just The Tudors
In this episode of Not Just the Tudors, Professor Suzannah Lipscomb talks about genetics, inbreeding and the sad fate of the Habsburgs with Dr. Adam Rutherford, author of A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes.
History Hit
Eugenics with Adam Rutherford
The Human Subject
Dr Adam Rutherford and Dr Julia Shaw investigate the threads connecting modern-day medicine to its often brutal origins.