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  • Blue Sky

    Artificial Intelligence

    Broadcast
    2001 (5 mins)

    Chris Melhuish is has designed robots that work in conjuction with each other to sort plates into two different colours. He has taken his inspiration from ants. They work on distributed, de-centralised...

  • Opening Up Information, Culture, Technology & Sociology

    Well Connected

    Broadcast
    2001 (5 mins)

    The programme examines how technology and the Internet can be used as a tool of empowerment for citizens.The programme took examples of two stories - Jonah Peretti’s emails to Nike requesting a customised...

  • Opening Up Information, Culture, Technology & Sociology

    Well Connected

    Broadcast
    2001 (5 mins)

    The programme examines how technology and the internet can be used to help musicians. The programme tells the stories of two individuals - Malcolm Lindsay is a classical composer who uses ‘score...

  • Blue Sky

    Dancing in Space

    Broadcast
    2001 (5 mins)

    How dances could hold the key to recover after paralysis.

  • Blue Sky

    Spaced Out

    Broadcast
    2001 (284 mins)

    How artists might help mathematicians see things differently.

  • Blue Sky

    The Crocodile Cure

    Broadcast
    2001 (5 mins)

    How a TV producer’s interest in crocodiles initiated a discovery of potentially huge medical value.

  • Blue Sky

    Dirty Business

    Broadcast
    2001 (4 mins)

    Germs are bad for us, aren’t they? A bacteriologist explains why it seemed heretical to suggest otherwise, and why that was exactly what he began to do.

  • Blue Sky

    Running Rockets

    Broadcast
    2001 (5 mins)

    The way we get into space is based on 100 year old missile technology. A space scientist is considering an ambitious alternative. Could science fiction become science fact?

  • Opening Up Information, Culture, Technology & Sociology

    Well Connected

    Broadcast
    2001 (29 mins)

    In this edition of ‘Well Connected’, Mariella Frostrup discovers how new technology is making art more accessible to the public, and providing a new creative medium for artists. She meets British pop...

  • Opening Up Information, Culture, Technology & Sociology

    Well Connected 2

    Broadcast
    2001 (29 mins)

    In this edition of ‘Well Connected’, Mariella Frostrup investigates how amateur and academic historians are using technology to revolutionise their researches. She meets a professional singer who went...