Former Naked Scientists line-up members include producers Phil Sansom, Adam Murphy, and Katie Haylor, with Peter Cowley adding ad-hoc technology perspectives.

In response to public reaction, the head of BBC East, Mick Rawsthorne, was interviewed on national radio about the decision to end the programme.

A dedicated hour of science Q and A was included in the station's Tea Time output (hosted by Matthew Gudgin) on alternate Wednesday evenings at 6pm.

Under the banner 5 live Science, it's a newly formatted version of the show produced by the Naked Scientists team and fronted by Dr Chris Smith; it aired nationally every Sunday morning until 12 January 2025.

Kitchen Science experiments have included building a desktop trebuchet,[14] a chocolate teapot[15] and a liver powered bottle rocket.

[16] The Kitchen Science segment also hosts experiments that listeners may not be able to do at home, such as generating X-rays from Sticky Tape[17] with Dr Carlos Camara of UCLA and testing how much fat would stop a bullet[18] with researchers at Cambridge University's Cavendish Laboratory.