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Life Story: A Horizon Special
It's 1951. There's a race on, and two of the brightest and brashest young men in Cambridge are determined to win it. The prize is glittering. Eternal fame, glory and almost cert ...
11-12-2024
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2020: Hubble: The Wonders Of Space Revealed
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of its launch, this film tells the remarkable story of how Hubble revealed the awe and wonder of our universe and how a team of daring astronau ...
04-11-2024
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2020: Pluto: Back From The Dead
The incredible story of how Pluto has been propelled from an unremarkable ball of ice on the edge of the solar system to a world of unimaginable complexity - where some form of ...
28-10-2024
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2022: Super Telescope: Mission To The Edge Of The Universe
As Nasa releases the first images from the James Webb Space Telescope, this film tells the inside story of the telescope's construction and the astronomers taking its first pict ...
28-04-2024
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2013-2014 - What's Wrong With Our Weather?
Physicist Dr Helen Czerski and meteorologist John Hammond make sense of Britain's extreme weather and discover that recent extreme winters are connected by the jet stream.
11-02-2024
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1977-1978: Now The Chips Are Down
First transmitted in 1978, Horizon examines the rise of the microprocessor and asks if automation presents a problem for the future of British industry.
26-12-2023
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2018: 10. Avalanche: Making A Deadly Snowstorm
In March 2018 an international team of scientists gathered in a remote valley in the Canadian Rockies to conduct a unique experiment - to attempt to see into the heart of a mass ...
03-10-2023
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2018: 5. Jupiter Revealed
'To send a spacecraft there is a little bit insane,' says Scott Bolton when talking about Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system. But that is exactly what he has done, ...
26-09-2023
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2013-2014: 2. Monitor Me
Dr Kevin Fong explores a medical revolution that promises to help us live longer, healthier lives. Inspired by the boom in health-related apps and gadgets, it's all about novel ...
25-04-2023
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2018: 11. Vitamin Pills: Miracle Or Myth?
Nearly half of us take a vitamin or mineral supplement every day, but what are these pills sold on every high street actually doing? Digging deeper than the eye-catching words o ...
10-04-2023
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2022: How To Sleep Well With Michael Mosley
A third of the population regularly struggle with our sleep, which rose to one in two during the pandemic - the highest it’s ever been. However, as more and more people se ...
08-08-2022
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2022: Making Sense Of Cancer With Hannah Fry
Hannah Fry, a professor of maths, is used to investigating the world around her through numbers. When she's diagnosed with cervical cancer at the age of 36, she starts to interr ...
20-06-2022
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2018: 7. A Week Without Lying - The Honesty Experiment
Deception is an integral part of human nature and it is estimated we all lie up to nine times a day. But what if we created a world in which we couldn't lie? In a radical experi ...
03-02-2022
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2011-2012 - Seeing Stars
Horizon follows the astronomers pushing the limits of science and engineering with a new generation of super-telescopes in the hunt for mysterious objects in the universe.
16-12-2021
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2021: Feast To Save The Planet
MasterChef judge Gregg Wallace and mathematician Dr Hannah Fry take over a restaurant and invite five special guests to enjoy a dinner party with a difference, where they will b ...
06-11-2021
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2013-2014: What's Killing Our Bees? A Horizon Special
Bill Turnbull investigates one of the biggest mysteries in the British countryside: what is killing our bees. It is a question that generates huge controversy. Changes in the we ...
05-08-2021
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2021: 1. Horizon Special: The Vaccine
The extraordinary inside story of the biggest scientific challenge of our age – following a small band of vaccine scientists around the world who took on Covid-19 and ulti ...
07-07-2021
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2018: 6. Stopping Male Suicide
Suicide is the biggest killer of men under 50 in the UK - causing more deaths in this group than car accidents, and even more than cancer. This means that the most likely thing ...
12-05-2021
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2014-2015 - Is Your Brain Male Or Female?
Series exploring topical scientific issues. Dr Michael Mosley and Professor Alice Roberts investigate if male and female brains really are wired differently.
04-05-2021
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2020: 1. Chris Packham: 7.7 Billion People And Counting
According to the UN, it is predicted that the human population could reach ten billion people by the year 2050. For broadcaster and naturalist Chris Packham, who has dedicated h ...
28-03-2021
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2021: Coronavirus Special - What We Know Now
In this third Horizon special, Dr Chris Van Tulleken is joined by his brother Xand and Dr Guddi Singh to take us through the latest developments and answer current concerns.\n\n ...
05-03-2021
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2020: What's The Matter With Tony Slattery?
Tony Slattery was one of the most gifted TV comedians of the late 80s and early 90s. One of the Cambridge Footlight set that included Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie and Emma Thompson, ...
15-02-2021
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2018: 9. Body Clock: What Makes Us Tick?
We all have a biological clock ticking away inside us that governs our daily rhythms. This affects our health as much as our diet and whether we exercise. So what can we do to m ...
04-02-2020
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2018: 3. How To Build A Time Machine
Time travel is not forbidden by the laws of nature, but to build a time machine, we would need to understand more about those laws and how to subvert them than we do now. And ev ...
07-08-2019
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2019: We Need To Talk About Death
In this film, Dr Kevin Fong makes a personal journey through the moral questions about death that face not just the medical profession, but each and every one of us. The questio ...
23-05-2019
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2009-2010 - Who's Afraid Of A Big Black Hole?
Scientists now believe black holes could hold the key to answering the ultimate question: what was there before the big bang? However, researching them is next to impossible.
10-04-2019
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2018: 1. My Amazing Brain: Richard's War
Horizon follows the story of Richard Gray and his remarkable recovery from a life-changing catastrophic stroke. The film shows the rarely seen journey back to recovery. Recorded ...
08-04-2019
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What Makes Us Clever? A Horizon Guide To Intelligence
Dallas Campbell delves into the Horizon archive to discover how our understanding of intelligence has transformed over the last century. From early caveman thinkers to computers ...
03-04-2019
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2018: 8. The Placebo Experiment: Can My Brain Cure My Body?
Could the power of fake pills be used to treat some of our most common medical complaints? To find out, Dr Michael Mosley embarks on Britain's largest ever trial to investigate ...
04-03-2019
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2018: 12. Diagnosis On Demand? The Computer Will See You Now
Could a machine replace your doctor? Dr Hannah Fry explores the incredible ways AI is revolutionising healthcare - and what this means for all of us. This film chronicles the in ...
29-11-2018
BBC 2
2018: 13. The Contraceptive Pill: How Safe Is It?
In recent years a groundbreaking new study has been released into the effects of the contraceptive pill. Research from Denmark claimed women on the pill and other forms of hormo ...
21-11-2018
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2011-2012: 3. The Nine Months That Made You
Horizon explores the secrets of what makes a long, healthy and happy life. It turns out that a time you can't remember - the nine months you spend in the womb - could have more ...
22-10-2018
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2018: 2. Teenagers Vs Cancer: A User's Guide
What is it like to be young and find out you have got cancer? What you will find out in this film may surprise you.\n\nThis film, narrated by actor and comedian Jack Whitehall, ...
27-07-2018
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2018: 4. Spina Bifida & Me
One in every 1,000 pregnancies in Britain has a spine or brain defect like spina bifida. Thirty years ago, actress Ruth Madeley was one of them. Despite having spina bifida hers ...
26-07-2018
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2010-2011 - Asteroids - The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
Famed for their ability to inflict armageddon from outer space, asteroids are now revealing how they are responsible for both life and death on our planet.
28-06-2018
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2005-2006: The Woman Who Thinks Like A Cow
Dr Temple Grandin can talk to the animals; she has a legendary ability to read the animal mind and understand animal behaviour when no-one else can. But this is no feat of telep ...
21-06-2018
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2011-2012 - The Core
For centuries people have dreamt of reaching the centre of the Earth. Now scientists are uncovering a bizarre and alien world that lies 4,000 miles beneath our feet.
31-05-2018
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2005-2006: 1. The Hawking Paradox
Series exploring topical scientific issues examines Professor Stephen Hawking's most controversial theory and possibly his greatest mistake. \n\nFor 30 years the most famous sci ...
14-05-2018
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Professor Hawking's Universe
Originally broadcast in 1983. Stephen Hawking (Lucasian professor of Maths, Cambridge) is one of leading authorities in cosmology and theoretical physics. This programme looks a ...
14-03-2018
BBC 2
Beyond The Moon
A chance to look back at a classic Horizon special in which James Burke looks at space exploration and exploitation. Originally transmitted in 1984, James begins by looking at t ...
16-12-2015
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