The Podcast from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
Beats & Bones
Season 10 has begun!
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The beat of science
Who knew that our earliest ancestors were jawless fish that lived 480 million years ago? Or what the Achilles’ heel of Tyrannosaurus rex is, and how 15 million insects can be digitized?
In the podcast Beats & Bones, produced in cooperation with our main sponsor Berliner Sparkasse, we take you behind the scenes: into collection halls housing more than 30 million specimens, state-of-the-art research laboratories, and the work of our scientists.
Discover how we study and preserve the diversity of life, how Earth came into being, and what climate change and insect decline have to do with all of us.
The podcast won the German Audiobook Award in the Best Podcast category in 2021 and received the DigAMus Award in 2020.
Knowledge creates clarity
Beats & Bones is produced in cooperation with Berliner Sparkasse. Under the motto „Knowledge creates clarity“, we work together to make scientific and economic topics accessible and relevant to everyday life. The Berliner Sparkasse Instagram community can join in with quizzes before each new episode. The answers and background information are revealed in the podcast.
Photo: Sarah Heuzeroth 
Lukas Klaschinski: psychologist, author and host of Beats & Bones, where he talks to researchers about curiosity, knowledge and our relationship with the natural world.
Photo: Pablo Castagnola
General Director Johannes Vogel and host Lukas Klaschinski recorded the first episode of Beats & Bones together at the museum.
Photo: Pablo Castagnola
Podcast production
Beats & Bones is produced by the Berlin-based audio production company Auf die Ohren GmbH. The team combines journalistic rigour with narrative flair, bringing research to life – authentically, intimately and with high-quality production. Drawing on experience from projects for museums and public service broadcasters, Auf die Ohren brings science to your ears and sets knowledge in motion.
Team
- Project leaders: Allyne Hartmann and Stefanie Krzyzniewski
- Idea and concept: Allyne Hartmann, Stefanie Krzyzniewski, Carmen Schucker
- Host: Lukas Klaschinski
- Editors: Lena Günther, Teresa Nehm
- Editing: Joscha Grunewald
- Sound design: Sebastian Grimberg
- Illustration: Sarah Heuzeroth