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Wales: Who Do We Think We Are? With Huw Edwards
Episode 1
- Broadcast
- 2022 (59 mins)
Huw Edwards travels around Wales to find out how people’s identities have been shaped by the turbulent events of the past decade and by the challenges that the country currently faces. Ten years after the...
City of the Future - 50 Years On
City of the Future - 50 Years On
- Broadcast
- 2017 (59 mins)
Is Milton Keynes a soulless place or a utopian dream? It might be famous as the home of roundabouts and concrete cows but it’s also one of the most ambitious experiments ever in social engineering. The...
Don’t Panic: How To End Poverty in 15 Years
Don’t Panic - The Truth About Population
- Broadcast
- 2015 (59 mins)
With the world’s population at 7 billion and still growing we often look at the future with dread. In ‘Don’t Panic - The Truth About Population’, world famous Swedish statistical showman Hans Rosling...
Science Shack Series Two
How tall could you build a building?
- Broadcast
- 2003 (29 mins)
In a trip to the Millennium Dome, Adam Hart-Davis looks at the engineering and psychological challenges of making skyscrapers, while the scientists attempt to build the world’s tallest tower - out of paper.
Science Shack Series Two
Can you walk on water?
- Broadcast
- 2003 (29 mins)
Adam Hart-Davis and the Team turn their scientific eye on a miraculous biblical event as they investigate whether it’s really possible to walk on water. The amazing water-walking Jesus Christ Lizard...
Science Shack Series Two
Could you make yourself invisible?
- Broadcast
- 2003 (29 mins)
Adam challenges the team to turn science fiction into science fact by making him invisible. Looking at the latest technological and natural camouflage techniques they come up with some fantastic inventions...
Science Shack Series Two
Can you live Underwater?
- Broadcast
- 2003 (29 mins)
This week it’s life under pressure for Adam Hart-Davis, as the Science Shack team builds him a self-sustaining underwater habitat, and tries to discover whether it’s possible to live permanently beneath...
Science Shack Series Two
Could you fly like a bird?
- Broadcast
- 2003 (29 mins)
Adam Hart-Davis investigates the science of flying with flapping wings, and tries to find out why no human or engine powered machine has ever done it. Meanwhile, the resident engineers take a highly original...
Science Shack Series Two
How High can you Jump?
- Broadcast
- 2003 (29 mins)
Adam Hart-Davis takes on the world of athletics and challenges an assortment of skilled jumpers to leap over the Science Shack. Can science beat gymnasts and athletes, or even beat the grasshopper,...
Science Shack Series One
SHACK/01/02
- Broadcast
- 2001 (29 mins)
Adam HART-DAVIES pres 1st in new 6 part interactive series answering viewers’ science questions. Australian team investigate fly’s ability to walk upside down on the ceiling. Incl 1st ever film to...