My Pet Dinosaur



It's a palaeontologist's dream: the chance to live in a world where dinosaurs are not something to be dug out of the ground but are living among us. It may sound far-fetched but dinosaurs were actually rather unlucky. The meteorite impact that doomed them to extinction was an event with a probability of millions to one. What if the meteorite had missed?

Had dinosaurs survived, the world today would be very different. If humans managed to survive alongside them, we wouldn't have the company of most, if not all, of the mammals with which we are familiar today. Giraffes, elephants and other mammals wouldn't have had space to evolve.

Would we be hunting Hadrosaurs instead of elk? Or farming Protoceratops instead of pigs? Would dinosaurs be kept as pets? And could the brighter dinosaurs have evolved into something humanoid?

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The Elephant's Guide to Sex (Spring, 2/9)



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2/9* BBC Horizon, Spring Season, 2007 [* cf. radiotimes.com]
First Aired: Tuesday 20 March 2007, 9:00 pm - 9:50 pm on BBC Two

Thomas Hildebrandt possesses one of the world's most extraordinary jobs - getting the planet's endangered animals in the mood for love.



The planet's creatures are facing the biggest mass extinction since the dinosaurs were wiped out. Species are currently disappearing at up to 10,000 times the natural rate. Coming to the rescue are men like Dr Hildebrandt and his team. They are world leaders in the art of animal manipulation.


(yes, that is what it looks like...)

The billions of pounds spent benefiting human reproduction are now being applied to save endangered species. Techniques such as artificial insemination and IVF have been crucial to the successes in breeding giant pandas, big cats and other mammals in zoos across the world. As Thomas Hildebrandt says "Man has created this annihilation of species. It's up to man to use his ingenuity to save them."

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Prof Regan's Beauty Parlour (Spring, 3/9)



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3/9* BBC Horizon, Spring Season, 2007 [* cf. radiotimes.com]
First Aired: Tuesday 27 March 2007, 9:00 pm - 9:50 pm on BBC Two

Professor Lesley Regan, one of the UK's most well-respected (and glamorous) medical experts, turns her scientific eye on the world of cosmetics. She's just turned 50, and is out to create an experimentally proven beauty cabinet.





Unafraid to examine the wrinkles, age spots and broken veins on her own face, Professor Regan explores just what makes us look old, and if we can slow down the ageing process. The extraordinary world of cosmetic testing is revealed, from the British hair lab which makes New York tap water, to the volunteers sun-bathing for science.

Sun damage, cellulite and balding all face Professor Regan's scrutiny as she discovers which cosmetics do - and don't - have the scientific evidence to back up their claims.



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Mad but Glad (Spring, 4/9)



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4/9* BBC Horizon, Spring Season, 2007 [* cf. radiotimes.com]
First Aired: Tuesday 3 April 2007, 9:00 pm - 9:50 pm on BBC Two

Is there really such a thing as the mad genius? Can an illness be both a blessing and a curse?

At seven years old, Nick van Bloss started shaking his head, grinding his teeth and making wild whooping noises. Nick had Tourette's syndrome. No medical intervention helped him. But one activity stopped it all...



The moment Nick placed his hands on the piano keys his symptoms vanished. By the age of 20, he was an award winning international pianist. He felt sure that his illness had made him the success he was.



But there is a catch. The brain state necessary for his genius can also be dangerously close to mental chaos. Nick's personal journey reveals how close he came to the edge and how determined he is to triumph.


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BBC Horizon - Moon For Sale (2007)



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5/9* BBC Horizon, Spring Season, 2007 [* cf. radiotimes.com]
First Aired: Tuesday 10 April 2007, 9pm, BBC Two

After 40 years, man is preparing to return to the Moon. But this time the astronauts won't just land on the Moon - they plan to stay.

From his office in Nevada, Dennis Hope has spawned a multi-million dollar business selling lunar real estate.

But scientists believe the real prize is trapped in the Moon's rocks. It contains large deposits of an extremely rare gas called Helium-3. Could Helium-3 be mined and used as a new source of almost inexhaustible, clean and pollution-free energy on Earth? Whoever succeeds in transporting Helium-3 back to Earth could solve the world's energy crisis.

Who will win what has been dubbed the second Moon race? And should we be exploiting the Moon's valuable resources at all?




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Horizon is a long-running BBC popular science and history documentary programme. The format of the series varied in the early years following its launch in 1964 but is now standardised at 50 minutes. Some episodes are adapted from documentaries by other broadcasters such as PBS's NOVA, and episodes of Horizon are in turn adapted by PBS and other broadcasters around the world.

2008








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How to Kill a Human Being

Health-Medical, Technology Documentary published by BBC broadcasted as part of BBC Horizon series in 2008 - English narration



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First Broadcast: Tuesday 15th January, 2008, 21:00, BBC2

Former Conservative MP, Michael Portillo pushes his body to the brink of death in an investigation into the science of execution.

As the American Supreme Court examines whether the lethal injection is causing prisoners to die in unnecessary pain Michael sets out to find a solution which is fundamentally humane. To do so he examines the key methods of execution available today: he discovers why convicts can catch on fire in the electric chair, learns how easy it is to botch a hanging and inhales a noxious gas to experience first hand the terror of the gas chamber.

Armed with some startling evidence Michael considers a completely new approach. Will it be the answer? There is only one way of finding out - to experience it himself.


Further Information
 * BBC: How to Kill a Human Being


Related Documentaries
 * Mr Death - The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter
 * How to commit the perfect Murder


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Total Isolation

Health-Medical Documentary published by BBC broadcasted as part of BBC Horizon series in 2008 - English narration



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First broadcast: Tuesday 22nd January 2008, 21:00, BBC Two

For the first time in 40 years Horizon re-creates a controversial sensory deprivation experiment. Six ordinary people are taken to a nuclear bunker and left alone for 48 hours. Three subjects are left alone in dark, sound-proofed rooms, while the other three are given goggles and foam cuffs, while white noise is piped into their ears.

The original experiments carried out in the 1950s and 60s by leading psychologist Prof Donald Hebb, was thought by many in the North American political and scientific establishment to be too cruel and were discontinued.

Prof Ian Robbins, head of trauma psychology at St George's Hospital, Tooting, has been treating some of the British Guantanamo detainees and the victims of torture who come to the UK from across the world. Now he evaluates the volunteers as their brains undergo strange alterations.


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1) Further Information
 * BBC Horizon - Total Isolation page

2) Related Documentaries
 * Jihad Rehab
 * The Human Mind
 * Unconstutional - The War on Our Civil Liberties
 * The Farm: Life Inside Angola Prison
 * Brain Story


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thank you

Thanks m8 !

Merged with the one and only BB Horizon thread. And let's keep it the one and only thread, please.

What on Earth is Wrong with Gravity

Science Documentary published by BBC broadcasted as part of BBC Horizon series in 2008 - English narration



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First broadcast: Tuesday 29th January 2008, 21:00, BBC Two

Particle physicist and ex D:Ream keyboard player Dr Brian Cox wants to know why the Universe is built the way it is. He believes the answers lie in the force of gravity. But Newton thought gravity was powered by God, and even Einstein failed to completely solve it. Heading out with his film crew on a road trip across the USA, Brian fires lasers at the moon in Texas, goes mad in the desert in Arizona, encounters the bending of space and time at a maximum security military base, tries to detect ripples in our reality in the swamps of Louisiana and searches for hidden dimensions just outside Chicago.


Further Information
 * BBC Horizon What on Earth is Wrong with Gravity? page

Related Documentaries
 * Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives
 * The Six Billion Dollar Experiment
 * Black Holes
 * Atom


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Is Alcohol Worse than Ecstasy

Health-Medical, Sociopolitical Documentary published by BBC broadcasted as part of BBC Horizon series in 2008 - English narration



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First Broadcast: Tuesday 5th February 2008, 21:00, BBC Two

Recent research has analysed the link between the harmful effects of drugs relative to their current classification by law with some startling conclusions. Perhaps most startling of all is that alcohol, solvents and tobacco (all unclassified drugs) are rated more dangerous than ecstasy, 4-MTA and LSD (all class A drugs). If the current ABC system is retained, alcohol would be rated a class A drug and tobacco class B.

The scientists involved, including members of the government's top advisory committee on drug classification, have produced a rigorous assessment of the social and individual harm caused by 20 of the UK's most dangerous drugs and believe this should form the basis of future ranking. They think the current ABC system is arbitrary and not based on any scientific evidence.

The drug policies have remained unchanged over the last 40 years so should they be reformed in the light of new research?


Further Information
 * BBC Horizon page
 * Live Debate following the broadcast

Related Documentaries
 * The Prince of Pot
 * Cocaine City
 * Hooked: Illegal Drugs and How they Got that Way
 * The Truth about Binge Drinking
 * The Meth Epidemic
 * Taboo Drugs
 * The Ice Age (Meth Addiction in Australia)

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Fermat's Last Theorem



Fermat's last Theorem: There is no positive integers x, y, z, and n > 2 such that x n+ yn = zn

was broadcast on 15 January 1996

At the age of ten, browsing through his public library, Andrew Wiles stumbled across the world's greatest mathematical puzzle. Fermat's Last Theorem had baffled mathematicians for over 300 years. But from that day, little Andrew dreamed of solving it. Tonight's HORIZON tells the story of his obsession, and how, thirty years later, he gave up everything to achieve his childhood dream.

Deep in our classroom memories lies the enduring notion that "the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides": Pythagoras's Theorem for right-angled triangles. Written down, it is also the simplest of mathematical equations: x 2+ y2 = z2

In 1637, a French mathematician, Pierre de Fermat said that this equation could not be true for x3 + y3 = z3 or for any equation xn + yn = zn where n is greater than 2. Tantalisingly, he wrote on his Greek text: "I have discovered a truly marvellous proof, which this margin is too narrow to contain." No one has found the proof, and for 350 years attempts to prove "F.L.T." attracted huge prizes, mistaken and eccentric claims, but met with failure.

Simon Singh and John Lynch's film tells the enthralling and emotional story of Andrew Wiles. A quiet English mathematician, he was drawn into maths by Fermat's puzzle, but at Cambridge in the '70s, FLT was considered a joke, so he set it aside. Then, in 1986, an extraordinary idea linked this irritating problem with one of the most profound ideas of modern mathematics: the Taniyama-Shimura Conjecture, named after a young Japanese mathematician who tragically committed suicide. The link meant that if Taniyama was true then so must be FLT. When he heard, Wiles went after his childhood dream again. "I knew that the course of my life was changing." For seven years, he worked in his attic study at Princeton, telling no one but his family. "My wife has only known me while I was working on Fermat", says Andrew. In June 1993 he reached his goal. At a three-day lecture at Cambridge, he outlined a proof of Taniyama - and with it Fermat's Last Theorem. Wiles' retiring life-style was shattered. Mathematics hit the front pages of the world's press.

Then disaster struck. His colleague, Dr Nick Katz, made a tiny request for clarification. It turned into a gaping hole in the proof. As Andrew struggled to repair the damage, pressure mounted for him to release the manuscript - to give up his dream. So Andrew Wiles retired back to his attic. He shut out everything, but Fermat.

A year later, at the point of defeat, he had a revelation. "It was the most important moment in my working life. Nothing I ever do again will be the same." The very flaw was the key to a strategy he had abandoned years before. In an instant Fermat was proved; a life's ambition achieved; the greatest puzzle of maths was no more.



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Amazing stuff guys, putting all these links up, Horizon has always been and still is a great favourite of mine, almost worth the TV license fee in itself

I wanted Fermat's Last Theorem for my son who is doing 'A' level advanced maths and borrowed a book from the teacher on Fermat's Last Theorem

How to Live to 101

Health-Medical Documentary narrated by Barbara Flynn and published by BBC broadcasted as part of BBC Horizon series in 2008 - English narration



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First Broadcast: Tuesday 19th February 2008, 9pm, BBC Two

The quest to live longer has been one of humanities oldest dreams, but while scientists have been searching, a few isolated communities have stumbled across the answer. On the remote Japanese island of Okinawa, In the Californian town of Loma Linda and in the mountains of Sardinia people live longer than anywhere else on earth.

In these unique communities a group of scientists have dedicated their lives to trying to uncover their secrets. Horizon takes a trip around the globe to meet the people who can show us all how to live longer, healthier lives.


1) Further Information
 * BBC Horizon page

2) Related Documentaries
 * Fight for Life
 * Rx for Survival
 * How Young Can I Get
 * To the Limit


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Great thread... keep up the good work

Prof Regan's Supermarket Secrets

Health-Medical, Science Documentary narrated by Peter Capaldi and published by BBC broadcasted as part of BBC Horizon series in 2008 - English narration



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Tuesday 26th February 2008, 9pm, BBC Two

Friendly bacteria, superfoods, cholesterol busting spreads, 99% germ free, whiter than white...it's almost impossible to find a product in the supermarket today that doesn't come with impressive claims...scientific claims...with an inflated price tag to match. Are they oversold? Or are they worth the extra cash?

Prof Lesley Regan has already exploded some of the myths behind beauty products in a previous Horizon. Now she's back, to see if the evidence behind these supermarket products stands up to her levels of scrutiny.

From organic farm produce to the billion dollar brands of the UK's major manufacturers Prof Regan asks tough questions and gets surprising answers. And there's no sitting on the fence: a product is either 'in' or 'out' of her scientifically backed supermarket trolley.


1) Further Information
 * BBC Horizon page

2) Related Documentaries
 * Prof Regan's Beauty Parlour
 * Our Daily Bread
 * The Lie of the Land
 * We Feed the World
 * Exposed
 * Bacteria


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Are We Alone in the Universe

Plot Outline: Science Documentary hosted by Ian Holm and published by BBC broadcasted as part of BBC Horizon series in 2008 - English narration Tuesday 4th March 2008, 9pm, BBC Two For fifty years, the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence has been scanning the galaxy for a message from an alien civilisation. So far to no avail, but a recent breakthrough suggests they may one day succeed. Horizon joins the planet hunters who've discovered a new world called Gliese 581 c. It is the most Earth-like planet yet found around another star and may have habitats capable of supporting life. NASA too hopes to find fifty more Earth-like planets by the end of the decade, all of which dramatically increases the chance that alien life has begun elsewhere in the galaxy.

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Thanks!

Merged with BBC Horizon topic.

kundzia1, please make sure to post episodes of documentary series in their respective topic for now on. Thanks.

no problem I will do so

stoepsel, maybe this topic and discovery naked shall be sticky? then it would be easer to browse it

We don't want to sticky topics that contain links. We will only sticky collection topics. And there's already a collection topic for BBC documentaries with links to BBC Horizon episodes in it.

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Cloning the First Human

Plot Outline: Science Documentary published by BBC broadcasted as part of BBC Horizon series in 2001 - English narration Cloning the First Human BBC TWO 9.00pm Thursday 25 October 2001 Doctors Panayiotis Zavos and Severino Antinori claim they are ready to embark on the greatest human experiment of our age. They say they will attempt to clone a human being before the year is out. Most people think the objections to this are ethical - human cloning would create many moral dilemmas. There is another question that few ever ask: is the science actually ready yet for cloning healthy humans? Horizon follows the latest research, which has led many scientists to believe that Zavos and Antinori's plans to clone the first human could end in tragedy. The programme also meets couples like Matthew and Desir�e Racquer who think cloning offers them the only way to raise a child who is truly their own. For decades, cloning remained within the realms of science fiction. The idea that instead of combining a sperm and an egg, a new human could be made from a single cell taken from an adult, seemed completely absurd. But that all changed in February 1997, when the Roslin Institute introduced the world to Dolly the sheep - the first animal cloned from an adult. Ever since Dolly, scientists have been continuing to experiment with cloning animals. So far, they have succeeded in cloning sheep, cattle, pigs, goats and mice, fuelling the belief that humans could be next. An unreliable procedure But even Dolly's creator, Professor Ian Wilmut, is concerned that beneath the veneer of success lies a disturbing reality. Most cloning attempts on animals so far have resulted in failed implantation or abnormal foetuses. Of the animals born alive, some soon die of catastrophic organ failure. Others appear to be healthy for weeks or even months, then die suddenly, sometimes from bizarre new illnesses which do not occur in nature. Years of painstaking work are only now revealing some vital clues to what is going wrong. Horizon talks to the scientists who have uncovered new evidence, suggesting that the process of cloning itself causes subtle errors in the way genes function. These random errors may be like a timebomb inside every clone, causing some of the strange - often fatal - problems. There's no reason to think cloned human babies would fare any better. According to embryologist Dr Susan Avery, death might be the best outcome for many human clones. If they survived, they would suffer from catastrophic illnesses that modern medicine is powerless to prevent or cure. Test tube troubles Dr Zavos claims that these problems are the result of the still unsophisticated methods being used by animal researchers. Using advanced in vitro fertilisation ('test tube baby') techniques, he claims that he will strive to make human cloning safer than natural reproduction. Now though, it seems that some IVF procedures themselves are being investigated for possible harmful effects on the long term health of children. Professor Gerald Schatten of the University of Pittsburgh reveals evidence of these risks, which could be magnified in cloning. Most reproductive specialists believe that the danger to any human born by cloning is enormous. But the would-be human cloners are determined to clone a human baby. If they proceed, they may be courting tragedy.

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