Horizon

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1964–2025·Returning Series·62 Seasons·1173 Episodes·60 min·BBC Two·Thursday · 21:00

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Horizon tells amazing science stories, unravels mysteries and reveals worlds you've never seen before.

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Seasons

Specials111 episodes

1966

Horizon Christmas Special: Hand me my Sword, Humphrey

1966-12-25

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The Case of the Ancient Astronauts

Biology at War: The Mystery of Yellow Rain

Biology at War: A Plague in the Wind

1984-10-29

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Twenty-First Birthday

1985-05-20

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Halley's Comet - The Apparition

1985-11-25

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Halley's Comet - The Encounter

1986-03-13

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The Diary of Discovery

1988-09-28

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Making an Honest Fiver

1990-06-06

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Red Star in Orbit: The Invisible Spaceman

1990-12-07

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Red Star in Orbit: The Dark Side of the Moon

1990-12-14

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Red Star in Orbit: The Mission

1990-12-21

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A Close Encouter of the Second Kind

1992-07-10

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Hide and Seek in Iraq

30th Anniversary - The Far Side

Einstein: The Miracle Year

BSE: The Invisible Enemy

1996-11-17

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BSE: The Human Experiment

1996-11-18

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Molecules With Sunglasses (Update)

1996-12-09

60m0.0es987192

Ice Mummies: The Ice Maiden

1997-01-30

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Ice Mummies: A Life in Ice

1997-02-06

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Ice Mummies: Frozen in Heaven

1997-02-13

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Computers Don't Bite, Inside the Internet

1997-05-17

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Antarctica: The Ice Lives

1997-10-30

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Antarctica: The Ice Forms

1997-11-06

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Antarctica: The Ice Melts

Fat Files: Born to Be Fat

1999-01-07

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Fat Files: Fixing Fat

1999-01-14

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Fat Files: Living on Air

Life and Death in the 21st Century: Living Forever

2000-01-04

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Life and Death in the 21st Century: Future Plagues

2000-01-05

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Life and Death in the 21st Century: Designer Babies

First Olympians: A Horizon Special

2004-07-23

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Everest: Doctors in the Death Zone (1)

2007-09-23

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Everest: Doctors in the Death Zone (2)

2007-09-30

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Lost Horizons: The Big Bang

Pandemic: A Horizon Guide

2009-08-09

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Mars: A Horizon Guide

2009-11-15

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How Many People Can Live on Planet Earth?

2009-12-09

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Diet: A Horizon Guide

2010-01-07

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The End of God? A Horizon Guide to Science and Religion

2010-09-17

60m0.0es987226

What Makes Us Clever? A Horizon Guide to Intelligence

2011-01-06

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Japan Earthquake: A Horizon Special

2011-03-27

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The Space Shuttle: A Horizon Guide

2011-04-10

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The End of the World? A Horizon Guide to Armageddon

2011-05-12

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Carrot or Stick? A Horizon Guide to Raising Kids

2011-08-11

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Extinct: A Horizon Guide to Dinosaurs

2011-09-21

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The Hunt for Higgs: A Horizon Special

2012-01-09

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Woof! A Horizon Guide to Dogs

Stuff: A Horizon Guide to Materials

2012-04-19

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Blink: A Horizon Guide to the Senses

2012-07-11

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Immortal? A Horizon Guide to Ageing

2012-07-17

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Mission to Mars: A Horizon Special

2012-07-31

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The Final Frontier: A Horizon Guide to the Universe

2012-10-17

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The Truth About Meteors: A Horizon Special

2013-03-03

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Mend Me: A Horizon Guide to Transplants

2013-03-27

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Tomorrow's World: A Horizon Special

2013-04-11

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What's Killing Our Bees? A Horizon Special

2013-08-02

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Comet of the Century: A Horizon Special

2013-11-23

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The £10 Million Challenge

2014-05-22

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The Transit of Venus: A Horizon Special

2012-06-05

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100

The Great British Drought

1976-05-26

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101

Festival 77: Horizon 2002

A Killer in the Village - Update

Climate Change: A Horizon Guide

2015-03-04

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107

The Mystery of Murder: A Horizon Guide

2015-03-09

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108

The Horizon Guide to AI

2018-09-04

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109

Tim Peake Special - How to be an Astronaut

2015-12-13

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110

Jimmy Carr and the Science of Laughter

2016-09-11

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111

Horizon Special: The Vaccine

2021-06-16

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112

The Life and Times of El Niño

2006-01-03

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113

Impact! A Horizon Guide to Plane Crashes

2013-10-14

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114

Impact! A Horizon Guide to Car Crashes

2013-10-21

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115

Cat Watch 2014 - A Cat's Eye View

2014-10-07

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116

Cat Watch 2014 - The Lion in Your Lap

2014-10-08

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117

Cat Watch 2014 - Cat Talk

2014-10-09

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118

What's The Right Diet For You? Part 1

2015-01-12

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119

What's The Right Diet For You? Part 2

2015-01-13

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120

What's The Right Diet For You? Part 3

2015-01-14

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121

Journey to the Moon: A Horizon Special

2019-07-17

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122

Alastair Campbell: Depression and Me

2019-05-21

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123

Ice Station Antarctica: Part One

2016-05-21

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124

Ice Station Antarctica: Part Two

2016-05-28

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125

Coronavirus Special - Part 1

2020-04-09

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126

Coronavirus Special - Part 2

2020-05-19

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127

Coronavirus Special - What We Know Now

2021-02-25

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128

Horizon Special: The Vaccine

2021-06-16

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129

Tim Peake Special: How to Be an Astronaut

2015-12-13

59m0.0es987277

19649 episodes

1964

The World of Buckminster Fuller

1964-02-04

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Pesticides and Posterity

Strangeness Minus Three

The Knowledge Explosion

1964-09-21

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The Amateur Scientist

1964-10-19

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Tots and Quods and Woodgeries

1964-11-16

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Science, Toys and Magic

1964-12-14

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196524 episodes

1965

Learning from Machines

1965-01-06

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The Technique of Change

The Great Computer Scandal / H-Bomb Detectors

1965-03-03

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Forbidden Events / I am a Madman

1965-03-17

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Restless Genius / Faster, Farther, Higher

1965-03-31

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The Other Side of the Pill

1965-04-14

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The Big Smoke / The Model Makers

1965-05-12

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The Long Slide / Men with Gills

1965-05-26

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Men and Sharks / Sir Henry Dale, OM, FRS

1965-06-09

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The Brain Gain / The Sudden Night / Learning to Speak

1965-06-23

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Dr. Joseph Needham / Mariner IV

1965-07-14

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Science Fiction : Science Fact? / Alone and Unarmed

1965-07-28

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Certain of Uncertainty / State of Nature

1965-08-11

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Time Stood Still / Weighty Matters

1965-08-25

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Fuel for the Future / Collector's Piece

Special Senses / Toil, Sweat & Tears

1965-10-10

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An Affair of the Heart

Albert Szent-Györgyi M.D., Ph.D., D.h.c.

1965-11-21

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The Big Dishes / The Living Stream

1965-12-05

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Boys on Bubbles / Problems and Puzzles

1966-09-25

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196623 episodes

1966

Windows of the Soul / Elixir of Youth

1966-01-02

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The Troubled Mind / Triple-A. S.

1966-01-16

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A Man of Two Visions / The Scientist Applied

1966-01-30

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The Dolphins that Joined The Navy / A Theory of The Earth

The Beginning of Life / Science Friction

1966-03-13

60m0.0es987316

So you want to be an Inventor? / The Severed Hand

1966-03-27

60m0.0es987317

Chance and Decay / Meteorite Mystery

1966-04-10

60m0.0es987318

Towers of Ilium / The Exploding City

Destination Mars / Editors in Conference"

1966-05-22

60m0.0es987321

Man meets Duck / The Picture Machines

1966-06-05

60m0.0es987322

Where must the Money Go? / Phantoms Incorporated

1966-06-19

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Genes in Action / Scientists and War

Man of Science / 'Nature' Tomorrow

1966-07-31

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M.I.T.'s ABC / The Disturbed Child

1966-09-25

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Ten Years in the Antarctic

From Peenemunde to the Moon

The Structure of Life

196723 episodes

1967

Sons of Cain

1967-01-17

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When Is a Body Dead? / How to Win Friends and Influence People

1967-01-31

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How Best to Make a Man / How Best to Make a Scientist

1967-02-14

60m0.0es987336

Dynamo - The Life of Michael Faraday

The Shape of War to Come

Masters of the Desert

1967-05-23

60m0.0es987343

Cancer - The Search for the Virus

1967-06-06

60m0.0es987344

Cancer - The Smoker's Gamble

1967-06-20

60m0.0es987345

Science and the Supernatural

The War of the Boffins

Air Safety: The Unknown Factor

1967-11-17

60m0.0es987352

The Life and Death of the Pine Processionary

1967-11-21

60m0.0es987353

Koestler on Creativity

1967-12-05

60m0.0es987354

The World of Ted Serios

196824 episodes

1968

An Ingenious Man - Sir H. John Baker

Towns, Traffic and Tomorrow

Man in Search of Himself

The Equation of Murder

From Field to Factory

Children Without Words

1968-10-31

60m0.0es987372

The Computer Revolution

In the Matter of Dr. Alfred Nobel

Black Man, White Science

Phantasmagoria or The Story of the Magic Lantern

1968-12-24

60m0.0es987380

196937 episodes

1969

Inside Every Fat Man

1969-01-02

60m0.0es987381

If Only They Could Speak

1969-01-09

60m0.0es987382

The Miraculous Wonder: The Human Eye

1969-01-16

60m0.0es987383

The Years of the Locust

The Last of the Polymaths

Extra-Sensory Perception

1969-02-27

60m0.0es987389

The Drift from Science

The Physicist in the Kitchen

1969-04-03

60m0.0es987394

King Solomon's Garden

1969-04-10

60m0.0es987395

Muck Today, Poison Tomorrow

Technology and Self-Determination

Four Fast Legs and a Nose

Master of the Microscope

Snap, Crackle and Bang

There's a Rhino in My Sugar

Don't Cackle, Lay Eggs

1969-12-01

60m0.0es987413

How Much Do You Drink?

For the Safety of Mankind

1969-12-29

60m0.0es987417

197037 episodes

1970

Just Another World

1970-01-05

60m0.0es987418

Henry Royce, Mechanic

1970-01-12

60m0.0es987419

A Disease of Our Time - Stress

1970-01-19

60m0.0es987420

A Disease of Our Time - Heart Attacks

Let the Therapy Fit the Crime

In the Beginning was the Word

1970-03-30

60m0.0es987429

The Drifting of the Continents

A Measure of Uncertainty

Don't Get Sick in America

Noah's Ark in Kensington

All Creatures Great and Small

1970-09-28

60m0.0es987443

A Child for a Lifetime

1970-10-05

60m0.0es987444

Something for Our Children

Earthquakes, The City that Waits to Die

1970-12-14

60m0.0es987452

The Man who Talks to Frogs

1970-12-21

60m0.0es987453

The Gargantuan Triumph of Science

1970-12-28

60m0.0es987454

197132 episodes

1971

Wildlife - The Last Great Battle

A Bulldozer Through Heaven

I'm Dependent - You're Addicted (I)

1971-02-15

60m0.0es987459

Kuru - To Tremble with Fear

1971-02-22

60m0.0es987460

Due to a Lack of Interest, Tomorrow Has Been Canceled

A Nice Sort of Accident to Have

Three Score Years and Then?

What Every Girl Should Know

1971-05-17

60m0.0es987469

Tastes of Foods to Come

1971-05-24

60m0.0es987470

Looking for a Happy Landing

The Total War Machine

Your Country Needs You?

If at First You Don't Succeed... You Don't Succeed

1971-10-11

60m0.0es987477

One Liverpool or Two?

1971-10-18

60m0.0es987478

Rutherford / The Cavendish Today

The Men Who Painted Caves

197233 episodes

1972

The Missing Link

1972-01-03

60m0.0es987487

Navajo - The Last Red Indians

1972-01-10

60m0.0es987488

How Much Do You Smell?

1972-01-17

60m0.0es987489

The Parasite of Paradise

1972-01-31

60m0.0es987490

The Day it Rained Periwinkles

1972-02-07

60m0.0es987491

Are You Doing This for Me Doctor, or Am I Doing It for You?

1972-02-14

60m0.0es987492

How They Sold Doomsday

Whales, Dolphins and Men

The Man-Made Lakes in Africa

1972-03-20

60m0.0es987497

Survival in the Sahara

The Wizard Who Spat on the Floor

Do You Dig National Parks?

1972-05-22

60m0.0es987503

Sorry I Opened My Mouth

The Life that Lives on Man

The Surgery of Violence

When Polar Bears Swam in the Thames

1972-10-19

60m0.0es987510

The Making of the English Landscape

The Billion-Dollar Marsh

1972-11-09

60m0.0es987513

Do You Sincerely Want a Long Life?

1972-11-16

60m0.0es987514

The Making of a Natural History Film

Their Life in Your Hands

197332 episodes

1973

The Military Necessity

1973-01-18

60m0.0es987522

The Curtain of Silence

When the Breeding Has to Stop

1973-02-08

60m0.0es987525

Science Is Dead, Long Live Science

1973-02-15

60m0.0es987526

...And Where Will the Children Play?

1973-03-01

60m0.0es987527

Acupuncture: A Chinese Puzzle

1973-03-08

60m0.0es987528

What Time Is Your Body?

1973-03-22

60m0.0es987529

Survival of the Weakest

1973-04-05

60m0.0es987530

Red Sea Coral and the Crown of Thorns

1973-04-12

60m0.0es987531

Lumbered... with Back-Ache!

Do You Remember the Memory Man?

Do We Really Need the Railways?

1973-06-14

60m0.0es987537

The Telly of Tomorrow?

A Scientist Looks at Religion

1973-08-09

60m0.0es987540

In Search of Konrad Lorenz

The Black Holes of Gravity

1973-10-15

60m0.0es987544

What's so Big About Us?

1973-10-22

60m0.0es987545

The Steadfast Tin Soldier

An Element of Mystery

1973-12-03

60m0.0es987549

Digging Up the Future

1973-12-17

60m0.0es987550

Kula, a Reason for Giving

1973-12-24

60m0.0es987551

197433 episodes

1974

A Matter of Self-Defense

1974-01-07

60m0.0es987552

Bird Brain - The Mystery of Bird Navigation

1974-01-14

60m0.0es987553

Never Too Late to Learn

The Writing on the Wall

1974-02-11

60m0.0es987557

Where Did the Colorado Go?

Fusion: The Energy Promise

This Yankee Dodge Beats Mesmerism Hollow

1974-04-29

60m0.0es987562

The Hunting of the Quark

1974-05-06

60m0.0es987563

A Noah's Ark for Europe

1974-05-13

60m0.0es987564

Bridges: When It Comes to the Crunch

The Race for the Double Helix

1974-07-08

60m0.0es987570

The Immigrant Doctors

1974-07-15

60m0.0es987571

Mines, Minerals and Men

The First Signs of Washoe

The Greatest Advance Since the Wheel?

The Neglected Harvest

1974-12-16

60m0.0es987582

How on Earth Did They Do That?

197526 episodes

1975

The Long, Long Walkabout

1975-04-07

60m0.0es987591

The Overworked Miracle

1975-04-14

60m0.0es987592

Not the Cheapest, But the Best

1975-04-21

60m0.0es987593

A Spoonful of Roughage

The Bulldog's Last Bark?

The McMaster Experiment

The Three Chord Trick

1975-06-16

60m0.0es987600

The Cleanest Place in the World

The Greatest Advance Since the Wheel?

To Die, to Live - The Survivors of Hiroshima

Meditation and the Mind

1975-08-18

60m0.0es987609

The Trobriand Experiment

1975-12-29

60m0.0es987610

197630 episodes

1976

The Transplant Experience

A Fair Share of What Little We Have

1976-01-19

60m0.0es987613

The Incredible Machine

The Case of the Bermuda Triangle

1976-02-16

60m0.0es987617

The Lords of the Labyrinth

The World of Margaret Mead

1976-03-22

60m0.0es987622

The Pathway from Madness

The Vision of the Blind

1976-04-12

60m0.0es987625

A Lesson for Teachers

A Home Like Ours... A Story of Four Children

1976-06-07

60m0.0es987630

What's Wrong with the Sun?

The Hot-Blooded Dinosaurs

1976-11-01

60m0.0es987633

Billion Dollar Bubble

Secrets of a Coral Island

The Mystery of King Arthur and His Round Table

1976-12-20

60m0.0es987640

197723 episodes

1977

A Smile for a Crocodile

1977-01-07

60m0.0es987641

The Pill for the People

1977-01-14

60m0.0es987642

The Ape That Stood Up

The Guinea Pig and the Law

One of Nature's Hotels

1977-03-11

60m0.0es987648

Dawn of the Solar Age

The Amazing Doctor Newton

1977-07-15

60m0.0es987651

The Trouble with Medicine

The River That Came Clean

1977-09-02

60m0.0es987655

Blueprints in the Bloodstream

The Healing Nightmare

1977-12-09

60m0.0es987662

The Great Wine Revolution

1977-12-23

60m0.0es987663

197824 episodes

1978

Living Machines

1978-01-06

60m0.0es987664

A Land for All Reasons

1978-01-20

60m0.0es987665

I Don't Want to Be a Burden

The Message in the Rocks

Light of the 21st Century

Now the Chips Are Down

1978-03-31

60m0.0es987672

Explosions in the Mind

Careering into Science

1978-08-25

60m0.0es987679

Cashing in on the Ocean

The Beersheva Experiment

197925 episodes

1979

A Mediterranean Prospect

Mr. Ludwig's Tropical Dreamland

1979-04-30

60m0.0es987696

Where Nothing Happens Twice

1979-05-07

60m0.0es987697

Journey Through the Human Body

The Robots Are Coming

Tracks on the Oregon Trail

1979-10-01

60m0.0es987702

The Race to Reshape Cars

The Lost Waters of the Nile

1979-10-22

60m0.0es987705

Survival of the Fastest

1979-10-29

60m0.0es987706

A Touch of Sensitivity

Uranium Goes Critical

198025 episodes

1980

The Ghost Of The Amoco Cadiz

1980-01-14

60m0.0es987713

You Are Old, Father William

The Cancer Detectives of Lin Xian

Encounter with Jupiter

Invasion of the Virions

Once in a Million Years

The Mondragon Experiment

198127 episodes

1981

No One Will Take Me Seriously

A Is for Atom, B Is for Bomb

1981-02-09

60m0.0es987743

Who Will Deliver Your Baby?

Gentlemen, Lift Your Skirts

Voices from Silent Hands

1981-03-23

60m0.0es987748

Did Darwin Get It Wrong?

Resolution on Saturn - The Rings

1981-04-11

60m0.0es987751

Resolution on Saturn - The Moons

1981-04-13

60m0.0es987752

Heads I Win, Tails You Lose

1981-09-28

60m0.0es987753

The Hunt for the Legion Killer

Butterflies or Barley?

1981-10-26

60m0.0es987757

Science for the People

Death of the Dinosaurs

1981-11-16

60m0.0es987760

The Pleasure of Finding Things Out

198222 episodes

1982

The Secret of the Snake

The Sea Beyond the Dunes

1982-01-25

60m0.0es987767

Whatever Happened to the Energy Crisis?

1982-02-01

60m6.0es987768

Notes of a Biology Watcher

The Million Murdering Death

The Future - Made in Japan?

1982-03-15

60m0.0es987774

The Private Face of Medicine

The Scientist and the Baby

The Professor of Surgery

The State of the Planet

1982-12-13

60m0.0es987785

The Mysterious Mr. Tesla

1982-12-20

60m10.0es987786

198324 episodes

1983

Sizewell Under Pressure

1983-01-10

60m0.0es987787

The Tropical Time Machine

How Much Can You Drink?

What Little Girls are Made of

1983-02-21

60m0.0es987792

British Science - On the Wrong Track?

1983-02-28

60m0.0es987793

The Great Plains Massacre

Better Mind the Computer

Sixty Minutes to Meltdown

1983-04-18

60m0.0es987798

Killer in the Village

Dr. Priestley and the Breath of Life

1983-10-10

60m0.0es987802

Professor Hawking's Universe

A Child's Guide to Languages

The Earthquake Connection

Cancer: The Pattern in the Genes

198422 episodes

1984

A New Green Revolution?

The Conquest of Parasites

1984-02-27

60m0.0es987816

Reflections on a River

Signs of the Apes, Songs of the Whales

1984-03-26

60m0.0es987820

Professor Bonner and the Slime Moulds

1984-04-09

60m0.0es987821

The Mind of a Murderer: The Case of the Hillside Strangler

1984-04-16

60m0.0es987822

The Mind of a Murderer: The Mask of Madness

Contented Cows and Other Animals

A Mathematical Mystery Tour

198516 episodes

1985

Mystery of the Left Hand

What Einstein Never Knew

How to Film the Impossible

The Goddess of the Earth

1985-04-15

60m0.0es987845

IRAS - The Supercooled Eye

198622 episodes

1986

The Mould, the Myth and the Microbe

1986-01-27

60m0.0es987852

Outbreak: The Microbe Masters the Mould

The New Face of Leprosy

1986-03-03

60m0.0es987856

Hi-Tech à la Française

1986-03-10

60m0.0es987857

In the Wake of HMS Sheffield

1986-03-17

60m0.0es987858

AIDS: A Strange and Deadly Virus

1986-03-24

60m0.0es987859

The Case of the Frozen Addict

1986-04-07

60m0.0es987860

Nice Guys Finish First

1986-04-14

60m0.0es987861

The Men Who Bottled a Cow

1986-04-21

60m0.0es987862

Twice Five Plus the Wings of a Bird

1986-04-28

60m0.0es987863

What Makes an Animal Smart?

1986-05-12

60m0.0es987864

A Handful of Sugar with a Pinch of Salt

Who Built Stonehenge?

1986-06-09

60m0.0es987867

Battered Baby: From Generation to Generation

1986-06-16

60m0.0es987868

Battered Baby: Breaking the Chain

198722 episodes

1987

The Twenty-Five Hour Clock

1987-01-05

60m0.0es987871

The Search for the Disappeared

Bruno Bettelheim: The Man Who Cared for Children

1987-02-02

60m0.0es987875

Bruno Bettelheim: A Sense of Surviving

1987-02-09

60m0.0es987876

Energy from Outer Space

1987-02-16

60m0.0es987877

The Return of the Osprey

Police Stress: The John Wayne Syndrome

After Chernobyl - Closer to Home

The Anthropic Principle

1987-05-18

60m0.0es987887

Aircrash: The Burning Issue

1987-06-01

60m0.0es987888

The Riddle of the Joints

1987-06-08

60m0.0es987889

To Catch a Falling Star

1987-05-15

60m0.0es987890

In the Light of New Information

198825 episodes

1988

The Transpanted Brain

The Canal in the Jungle

1988-01-25

60m0.0es987896

Death of the Working Classes

1988-02-01

60m0.0es987897

The Greenhouse Effect

1988-02-08

60m0.0es987898

Struggling for Control

Purple Warrior - Rules of Engagement

1988-03-07

60m0.0es987902

Purple Warrior - Limited War

Easter Islands - The Secret

1988-04-11

60m0.0es987905

Easter Islands - The Story

1988-04-18

60m0.0es987906

Doctors to Be - Trial by Interview

1988-04-23

60m0.0es987907

Doctors to Be - The Knowledge

1988-04-24

60m0.0es987908

Doctors to Be - Welcome to the Real World

Superconductor - The Race for the Prize

The Quest for Tannu Tuva

1988-07-04

60m0.0es987917

198920 episodes

1989

The Book of Man

1989-01-09

60m0.0es987918

The Poison that Waits

Who Will Make Me Better?

Why Buildings Make You Sick

Clive Sinclair: The Anatomy of an Inventor

199020 episodes

1990

Food Irradiation: Would You Buy It?

1990-01-22

60m0.0es987940

From Earth to Miranda

1990-01-29

60m0.0es987941

Encounter With Neptune

1990-02-05

60m0.0es987942

Guess What's Coming to Dinner?

The Britannic Greenhouse

The Quake of '89 - The Final Warning?

1990-04-02

60m0.0es987949

The Sharpest Shot of the Universe

1990-04-09

60m0.0es987950

The Company of Ants and Bees

1990-04-23

60m0.0es987951

The Intelligent Island

Do Cows Make You Mad?

AIDS: A Quest for a Cure

1990-06-25

60m0.0es987957

199123 episodes

1991

Smokers Can Harm Your Health

1991-01-21

60m0.0es987960

Coming In from the Cold

1991-01-28

60m0.0es987961

Small Problems with the Mirror

1991-02-04

60m0.0es987962

Two Weeks to Save the Earth

The Day the Earth Melted

Cashing in on Paradise

1991-03-11

60m0.0es987968

The Terracotta Time Machine

1991-03-18

60m0.0es987969

Measuring the Roof of the World

Inside Chernobyl's Sarcophagus

1991-04-22

60m0.0es987972

Colonising Cyberspace

Camelford - A Bitter Aftertaste

1991-05-20

60m0.0es987975

Of Big Bangs, Stick Men and Galactic Holes

The Long Road to the West

1991-06-17

60m0.0es987978

Half Hearted About Semi-Skimmed

199219 episodes

1992

The Shadow of Breast Cancer

Molecules With Sunglasses

1992-01-20

60m0.0es987983

In Search of the Noble Savage

1992-01-27

60m0.0es987984

Malaria: Battle of the Merozoites

An Expensive Theology

1992-03-02

60m0.0es987988

The Strange Life and Death of Dr. Turing

1992-03-09

60m0.0es987989

Hot Jam in the Doughnut

1992-03-16

60m0.0es987990

A Diet for a Lifetime

The Man Who Moved the Mountains

Fast Life in the Food Chain

A Question of Sport...

199321 episodes

1993

Awakening the Frozen Addicts

TB - The Forgotten Plague

1993-01-18

60m0.0es988002

No Ordinary Genius (1)

1993-01-25

60m0.0es988003

No Ordinary Genius (2)

Suggers, Fruggers and Data-Muggers

Whatever Happened to Star Wars

1993-03-15

60m0.0es988010

Resurrecting the Dead Sea Scrolls

Ghosts in the Dinosaur Graveyard

Allergic to the 20th Century

The Electronic Frontier

199421 episodes

1994

Small Arms, Soft Targets

The Man Who Made Up His Mind

Death Wish - The Untold Story

1994-02-07

60m0.0es988025

Air Crash - The Deadly Puzzle

1994-02-14

60m0.0es988026

Hunt for the Doomsday Asteroid

The Blueprints of Genocide

Deaf Whale, Dead Whale

Orange Sherbet Kisses

199520 episodes

1995

Tibet - The Ice Mother

1995-01-09

60m0.0es988042

Russia's Deep Secrets

Farewell Fantastic Venus

Hunt for the Doomsday Asteroid (Update)

AIDS: Behind Closed Doors

199616 episodes

1996

The Butchers of Boxgrove

1996-01-08

60m0.0es988062

Fermat's Last Theorem

1996-01-15

60m7.0es988063

A Miracle for Cancer ?

Masters of the Ionosphere

1996-02-12

60m0.0es988067

Assault on the Male (revisited)

Inside Chernobyl's Sarcophagus (Update)

1996-03-25

60m0.0es988071

Fallout from Chernobyl

1996-04-01

60m0.0es988072

TV is Dead, Long Live TV

199715 episodes

1997

Smallpox on Death Row

1997-03-27

60m0.0es988082

Silent Children, New Language

The Great Balloon Race

The Man Who Lost his Body

1997-10-16

60m0.0es988091

Dawn of the Clone Age

1997-10-23

60m0.0es988092

199818 episodes

1998

Saddam's Secrets

1998-02-19

60m0.0es988093

Dr Miller and the Islanders

The Curse of Vesuvius

The Computer that Ate Hollywood

Dinosaurs in Your Garden

The Life and Times of Life and Time

1998-10-22

60m0.0es988108

Thalidomide: A Necessary Evil

199914 episodes

1999

From Here to Infinity

Volcanoes of the Deep

1999-11-18

60m0.0es988121

Anatomy of an Avalanche

Blood and Flowers: In Search of the Aztecs

1999-09-09

49m0.0es988124

200019 episodes

2000

Breath of Life

2000-01-12

60m0.0es988125

The Lost City of Nasca

Complete Obsession - Body Dysmorphia

Mega-tsunami: Wave of Destruction

The Lost World of Lake Vostok

2000-10-26

60m8.0es988136

Vanished: The Plane that Disappeared

2000-11-02

60m0.0es988137

The Secret Treasures of Zeugma

2000-11-09

60m0.0es988138

Valley of Life or Death

Supermassive Black Holes

2000-11-30

60m0.0es988141

The Boy who was Turned into a Girl

2000-12-07

60m0.0es988142

Atlantis Reborn Again

2000-12-14

60m0.0es988143

200111 episodes

2001

The Mystery of the Miami Circle

Taming the Problem Child

2001-03-06

60m0.0es988149

The Mystery of the Persian Mummy

2001-09-20

60m0.0es988150

The Ape that Took Over the World

Cloning the First Human

2001-10-25

60m0.0es988154

200218 episodes

2002

Helike - The Real Atlantis

The Lost Pyramids of Caral

The Dinosaur that Fooled the World

2002-02-21

60m0.0es988161

The Fall of the World Trade Center

The Mystery of the Jurassic

The Day the Earth Nearly Died

2002-12-05

60m0.0es988171

The Secret of El Dorado

2002-12-19

60m0.0es988172

200319 episodes

2003

The Mystery Of Easter Island

Sexual Chemistry (Update)

2003-02-13

60m0.0es988177

The Day We Learned To Think

Life On Mars (Update)

2003-03-27

60m0.0es988181

The Secret Life Of Caves

Last Flight of the Columbia

2003-11-27

60m0.0es988188

The Hunt for an AIDS Vaccine

2003-12-04

60m0.0es988189

Percy Pilcher's Flying Machine

200418 episodes

2004

The Demonic Ape

2004-01-08

60m0.0es988192

The Moscow Theatre Siege

Secrets of the Star Disc

2004-01-29

60m0.0es988195

The Dark Secret of Hendrik Schön

2004-02-05

60m0.0es988196

Thalidomide - A Second Chance?

T-Rex - Warrior or Wimp?

The Truth About Vitamins

2004-09-16

60m0.0es988202

King Solomon's Tablet of Stone

2004-09-23

60m0.0es988203

Derek Tastes of Earwax

2004-09-30

60m0.0es988204

What Really Killed the Dinosaurs?

2004-10-07

60m0.0es988205

Making Millions the Easy Way

2004-10-14

60m0.0es988206

Saturn - Lord of the Rings

2004-10-21

60m0.0es988207

The Hunt for the Supertwister

2004-10-28

60m0.0es988208

Dr Money and the Boy with No Penis

2004-11-04

60m0.0es988209

200520 episodes

2005

Global Dimming

2005-01-13

60m0.0es988210

Einstein's Unfinished Symphony

2005-01-20

60m9.0es988211

Einstein's Equation of Life and Death

An Experiment to Save the World

2005-02-17

60m0.0es988215

Who's Afraid of Designer Babies?

2005-02-24

60m0.0es988216

The Lost Civilisation of Peru

Does the MMR Jab Cause Autism?

2005-05-29

60m0.0es988219

Malaria: Defeating the Curse

2005-06-05

60m0.0es988220

Tsunami: Naming the Dead

The Mystery of the Human Hobbit

2005-09-15

60m0.0es988223

The Doctor Who Makes People Walk Again?

2005-10-06

60m0.0es988224

Can Fish Make My Child Smart?

2005-10-06

60m0.0es988225

Madagascar - A Treetop Odyssey

2005-10-13

60m0.0es988226

Titan. A Place Like Home?

2005-11-10

60m0.0es988227

The 7/7 Bombers: A Psychological Investigation

2005-12-08

60m0.0es988228

The Ghost in Your Genes

2005-12-15

60m0.0es988229

200619 episodes

2006

Space Tourists

2006-01-12

60m0.0es988230

Waiting for a Heartbeat

The Lost City of New Orleans

2006-02-02

60m0.0es988233

Most of Our Universe Is Missing

The Woman Who Thinks Like a Cow

2006-06-08

60m0.0es988236

The Genius Sperm Bank

Tutankhamun's Fireball

2006-07-20

60m4.0es988241

Survivors Guide to Plane Crashes

2006-10-03

60m0.0es988242

Chimps are People Too

2006-10-10

60m0.0es988243

The Worlds First Face Transplant

20079 episodes

2007

My Pet Dinosaur

2007-03-13

60m0.0es988249

The Elephant's Guide to Sex

2007-03-20

60m0.0es988250

Prof Regan's Beauty Parlour

Skyscraper Fire Fighters

2007-04-24

60m0.0es988255

The Six Billion Dollar Experiment

2007-05-01

60m0.0es988256

How to Commit the Perfect Murder

2007-05-08

60m0.0es988257

200817 episodes

2008

How to Kill a Human Being

What on Earth is Wrong With Gravity?

2008-01-29

60m9.0es988260

Is Alcohol Worse than Ecstasy?

2008-02-05

60m0.0es988261

How to Make Better Decisions

2008-02-12

60m0.0es988262

How to Live to be 101

2008-02-19

60m0.0es988263

Prof. Regan's Supermarket Secrets

2008-02-26

60m0.0es988264

Are we Alone in the Universe?

2008-03-04

60m0.0es988265

How Much is Your Dead Body Worth?

2008-03-18

60m0.0es988266

How Does Your Memory Work?

2008-03-25

60m0.0es988267

The President's Guide to Science

2008-09-16

60m0.0es988268

How Mad Are You? (1 of 2)

2008-11-11

60m0.0es988269

How Mad Are You? (2 of 2)

2008-11-18

60m0.0es988270

Jimmy's GM Food Fight

2008-11-25

60m0.0es988271

Do You Know What Time It Is?

200918 episodes

2009

Why Are Thin People Not Fat?

2009-01-26

60m0.0es988275

Cannabis: The Evil Weed?

Can We Make a Star on Earth?

2009-02-17

60m0.0es988278

The Secret Life of Your Bodyclock

2009-02-24

60m0.0es988279

What's the Problem with Nudity?

2009-03-03

60m2.0es988280

How to Survive a Disaster

2009-03-10

60m0.0es988281

Who Do You Want Your Child to Be?

2009-03-17

60m0.0es988282

Why Can't We Predict Earthquakes?

2009-03-24

60m0.0es988283

Alan and Marcus Go Forth and Multiply

Who's Afraid of a Big Black Hole?

How Long is a Piece of String?

2009-12-22

60m0.0es988291

How Many People Can Live on Planet Earth?

2009-12-09

0.0es988292

2009-201014 episodes

2009

Who's Afraid of a Big Black Hole?

How Long is a Piece of String?

2009-11-17

60m0.0es988298

The Secret Life of the Dog

To Infinity and Beyond

Did Cooking Make Us Human?

2010-03-02

60m0.0es988305

Is Everything We Know About the Universe Wrong?

2010-03-09

60m0.0es988306

2010-201115 episodes

2010

Back from the Dead

2010-09-27

60m0.0es988307

The Death of the Oceans?

2010-10-04

60m0.0es988308

What Happened Before the Big Bang?

Miracle Cure? A Decade of the Human Genome

2010-10-25

60m0.0es988311

Asteroids - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

2010-11-03

60m0.0es988312

Deepwater Disaster - The Untold Story

The Secret World of Pain

2011-01-31

60m0.0es988317

Surviving a Car Crash

2011-02-07

60m0.0es988318

How to Mend a Broken Heart

2011-02-14

60m0.0es988319

Are We Still Evolving?

2011-03-01

60m0.0es988320

Predators in Your Backyard

2011-03-08

60m0.0es988321

2011-201213 episodes

2011

Do You See What I See?

The Nine Months That Made You

Are You Good or Evil?

2011-09-07

60m0.0es988326

Fukushima: Is Nuclear Power Safe?

The Truth About Exercise

2012-02-28

60m10.0es988329

Solar Storms: The Threat to Planet Earth

2012-201316 episodes

2012

The Truth About Looking Young

Eat, Fast and Live Longer

2012-08-06

60m10.0es988337

How Big Is the Universe?

2012-08-27

60m10.0es988338

How Small Is the Universe?

2012-09-03

60m8.0es988339

Defeating the Superbugs

2012-09-10

60m0.0es988340

The Creative Brain: How Insight Works

2013-03-14

60m6.0es988341

How to Avoid Mistakes in Surgery

2013-03-21

60m7.0es988342

The Truth about Taste

The Secret Life of the Cat

Fracking: The New Energy Rush

2013-06-19

60m8.0es988347

Swallowed by a Black Hole

The Truth About Personality

2013-07-10

60m7.0es988350

2013-201411 episodes

2013

Monitor Me

2013-08-12

60m7.0es988351

Defeating the Hackers

2013-08-19

60m9.0es988352

Dinosaurs: The Hunt for Life

Swallowed by a Sink Hole

2014-02-03

60m0.0es988355

Man on Mars - Mission to the Red Planet

2014-02-10

60m9.0es988356

The Power of the Placebo

2014-02-17

60m0.0es988357

How You Really Make Decisions

Where is Flight MH370?

2014-06-17

60m8.0es988360

What's Wrong with Our Weather?

2014-07-17

60m6.5es988361

2014-201518 episodes

2014

Should I Eat Meat? The Big Health Dilemma

2014-08-18

60m0.0es988362

Should I Eat Meat? How to Feed the Planet

2014-08-20

60m0.0es988363

Allergies: Modern Life and Me

Ebola - The search for a cure

2014-09-10

60m0.0es988366

Is your Brain Male or Female?

2014-09-29

60m0.0es988367

Secrets of the Solar System

2015-03-03

60m0.0es988368

Aftershock: The Hunt for Gravitational Waves

2015-03-10

60m6.5es988369

Dancing in the Dark - The End of Physics?

2015-03-17

60m9.0es988370

70 Million Animal Mummies: Egypt's Dark Secret

2015-05-11

60m0.0es988371

Is Binge Drinking Really That Bad?

2015-05-20

60m7.0es988372

The Trouble with Space Junk

2015-08-05

60m6.0es988373

Are Health Tests Really A Good Idea?

OCD: A Monster In My Mind

2015-08-26

60m0.0es988376

Which Universe Are We In?

2015-09-02

60m6.5es988377

Cosmic Dawn: The Real Moment of Creation

2015-09-09

60m7.0es988378

Are Video Games Really That Bad?

2015-09-16

60m7.0es988379

201616 episodes

2016

The Immortalist

2016-03-16

60m0.0es988380

Project Greenglow - The Quest for Gravity Control

2016-03-23

60m0.0es988381

The Mystery of Dark Energy

2016-03-30

60m8.0es988382

Oceans of the Solar System

2016-04-06

60m7.5es988383

The End of the Solar System

2016-04-13

60m6.5es988384

Should We Close Our Zoos?

2016-04-17

60m7.0es988385

How to Find Love Online

2016-04-25

60m7.0es988386

Ice Station Antarctica

E-Cigarettes: Miracle or Menace?

2016-05-22

60m8.0es988389

Why Are We Getting So Fat?

2016-06-07

60m7.0es988390

Sports Doping - Winning At Any Cost?

The Lost Tribes of Humanity

2016-10-12

60m0.0es988394

The Wildest Weather in the Universe

2016-10-23

60m8.0es988395

201715 episodes

2017

Clean Eating: The Dirty Truth

ADHD and Me with Rory Bremner

Strange Signals from Outer Space!

Antarctica - Ice Station Rescue

2017-06-07

60m0.0es988402

Cyber Attack - The Day the NHS Stopped

2017-06-12

60m0.0es988403

10 Things You Need to Know About the Future

2017-06-19

60m0.0es988404

Dawn of the Driverless Car

What Makes a Psychopath?

2017-08-29

60m0.0es988407

Mars - A Traveller's Guide

2017-09-12

60m0.0es988408

Goodbye Cassini - Hello Saturn

201813 episodes

2018

My Amazing Brain: Richard's War

2018-02-05

60m0.0es988411

Teenagers vs Cancer: A User's Guide

2018-06-26

60m0.0es988412

How to Build a Time Machine

Stopping Male Suicide

2018-08-22

60m7.0es988416

A Week Without Lying - The Honesty Experiment

2018-08-29

60m7.0es988417

The Placebo Experiment: Can My Brain Cure My Body?

2018-10-04

60m8.0es988418

Body Clock: What Makes Us Tick?

2018-10-11

60m7.0es988419

Avalanche: Making a Deadly Snowstorm

2018-10-18

60m8.0es988420

Vitamin Pills: Miracle or Myth?

2018-10-25

60m8.0es988421

Diagnosis on Demand? The Computer Will See You Now

2018-11-01

60m8.5es988422

The Contraceptive Pill: How Safe Is It?

2018-11-21

60m8.0es988423

20196 episodes

2019

We Need to Talk about Death

2019-01-23

60m7.0es988424

Britain's Next Air Disaster? Drones

2019-07-01

60m0.0es988425

The Honest Supermarket: What’s Really in Our Food?

2019-07-08

60m7.0es988426

Inside the Social Network: Facebook's Difficult Year

2019-07-16

60m8.0es988427

The 250 Million Pound Cancer Cure

2019-07-22

60m0.0es988428

Cannabis: Miracle Medicine or Dangerous Drug?

2019-08-28

60m8.0es988429

20208 episodes

2020

Addicted to Painkillers? Britain's Opioid Crisis

2020-01-16

60m0.0es988430

Chris Packham: 7.7 Billion People And Counting

2020-01-23

60m8.3es988431

Toxic Town: The Corby Poisonings

2020-03-23

60m0.0es988432

The Restaurant that Burns Off Calories

2020-04-20

60m0.0es988433

Hubble: The Wonders of Space Revealed

2020-04-24

60m0.0es988434

The Great British Intelligence Test

2020-05-04

60m0.0es988435

What's the Matter with Tony Slattery

2020-05-21

60m0.0es988436

Pluto: Back From the Dead

2020-07-06

60m0.0es988437

20214 episodes

2021

Feast to Save the Planet

2021-01-04

60m0.0es988438

The Secret Science of Sewage

2021-03-18

60m0.0es988439

Dolly: The Sheep That Changed the World

20224 episodes

2022

How to Sleep Well with Michael Mosley

2022-03-31

60m0.0es988442

Fergal Keane: Living with PTSD

2022-05-09

60m0.0es988443

Making Sense of Cancer with Hannah Fry

2022-06-02

60m0.0es988444

Super Telescope: Mission to the Edge of the Universe

2022-07-14

59m0.0es988445

20241 episodes

2024

The Battle to Beat Malaria

2024-07-22

58m9.0es988446

20254 episodes

2025

Confessions of a Brain Surgeon

2025-08-18

58m0.0es988447

Disease X: Hunting the Next Pandemic

2025-09-22

58m0.0es988448

Secrets of The Brain (1)

2025-09-29

58m0.0es988449

Secrets of the Brain (2)

2025-10-06

58m0.0es988450

20261 episodes

2026

Artemis: To the Moon and Back

2026-04-15

60m8.0es988451

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