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Growing Children
Dyslexia
- Broadcast
- 2011 (59 mins)
In this programme Laverne looks into one of the most common problems for children - dyslexia. She uncovers some incredible developments in neuroscience that are showing how the dyslexic brain works. As many...
British Isles: A User’s Guide to Natural History
Episode 1 - Dinosaurs, Deserts and Volcanoes
- Broadcast
- 2004 (58 mins)
Chris Packham and the team discover evidence of dinosaurs, deserts and volcanoes. Needles, Isle of Wight, Scarborough Castle, dinosaur footprints, ammonites, nautilus
British Isles: A User’s Guide to Natural History
Episode 2 - Ice Age
- Broadcast
- 2004 (58 mins)
In this programme we look back through time at the periods of Ice Ages that Britain has been through during the last 2 million years and the warmer interglacial periods when hyenas, lions and hippos roamed...
British Isles: A User’s Guide to Natural History
Episode 3 - Island Britain
- Broadcast
- 2004 (59 mins)
In this programme we discover how a warmer climate and rising sea levels caused Britain to become an island with 18,000 km of coastline and a changing landscape.
British Isles: A User’s Guide to Natural History
Episode 4 - Taming the Wild
- Broadcast
- 2004 (58 mins)
In this programme we discover how just 8000 years ago humans make their first major impact on the land and see that by 1800 virtually every comer of Britain had been tamed and the population had grown to 9...
Cell City
City Life
- Broadcast
- 2002 (29 mins)
Introducing Cell City: with its outer boundary, power stations, factories,post offices, roads and communication networks, a biological cell is just like a city.
Cell City
City Works
- Broadcast
- 2002 (29 mins)
Likens the inner workings of cells to a city - a fun yet robust analogy- using this as a springboard into cell division and cancer research.
Cell City
Inter-City
- Broadcast
- 2002 (29 mins)
Extends the analogy of Cell City to the inter-relationship between cells - discussing diabetes, stem cell research and ageing.
Cell City
Cancer Pioneers
- Broadcast
- 2002 (14 mins)
The landmark work of Sir Paul Nurse, Tim Hunt and Lee Hartwell - winners of the 2001 Nobel Prize in medicine.