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The Brits Who Built the Modern World
Ep3 - The Politics of Power
- Broadcast
- 2014 (59 mins)
The story of how an exceptional generation of British architects, led by Norman Foster and Richard Rogers, conquered the globe with their high tech vision. This third episode focuses on the period from the...
Everyday Miracles - The Genius of Sofas, Stockings and Scanners
Home
- Broadcast
- 2014 (57 mins)
Today, we all live like kings and queens! Our homes are comfortable pleasure palaces, filled with comfortable furniture, countless electronic gadgets and labour saving devices. There is light and heat at the...
Everyday Miracles - The Genius of Sofas, Stockings and Scanners
Away
- Broadcast
- 2014 (58 mins)
New materials have produced the everyday materials that have transformed our lives at home, but they’ve also had a huge impact on our ability to get around and explore our planet and even our universe. We...
The Challenger
Episode One
- Broadcast
- 2013 (89 mins)
When the Space Shuttle Challenger blew up in 1986, it was the most shocking event in the history of American spaceflight. The deaths of seven astronauts, including the first teacher in space Christa...
The Fantastic Mr Feynman
Episode 1
- Broadcast
- 2013 (61 mins)
Richard Feynman is one of the most iconic, influential and inspiring scientists of the 20th century. He helped design the atomic bomb, solved the mystery of the Challenger Shuttle catastrophe and won a Nobel...
Bang Goes The Theory Series 7
Plastic
- Broadcast
- 2013 (29 mins)
From food-fraud to flu, from plastics to poisons, and from superbugs to sugar, TV-science legend Maggie Philbin joins presenters Liz Bonnin and Jem Stansfield as the team investigate the science that makes...
Bang Goes The Theory Series 7
Britain Under Pressure
- Broadcast
- 2013 (29 mins)
This week the team look at Britain under Pressure. With the population of the UK topping 63 million, what are scientists and engineers doing to reduce the strain on our ageing infrastructure? Maggie heads 50...
Bang Goes The Theory Series 7
Air Pollution
- Broadcast
- 2013 (29 mins)
Air pollution is now second only to smoking as a killer in the UK...yet as a nation we are failing to meet targets on reducing emissions. The team investigate what air pollution is, where it comes from, and...
Light And Dark
Ep1 - Light
- Broadcast
- 2013 (59 mins)
The first in a two-part series about our quest to discover, understand and manipulate light and dark. The story of how we used light to reveal the cosmos begins in the 3rd century BC when, by trying to...
Light And Dark
Ep2 - Dark
- Broadcast
- 2013 (59 mins)
Professor Jim Al-Khalili tells the story of how we went from thinking we were close to a complete understanding of the universe to realising we had seen almost none of it. Today, our best estimate is that...