Horizon

The World of Buckminster Fuller

Pesticides and Posterity

A Candle to Nature

Strangeness Minus Three

The Air of Science

The Knowledge Explosion

The Amateur Scientist

Tots and Quods and Woodgeries

Professor J.B.S. Haldane, Obituary

Science, Toys and Magic

Learning from Machines

The Technique of Change

Star Gazers

Science and Art

The Great Computer Scandal

Faster, Farther, Higher

Restless Genius

Other Side of the Pill

The Big Smoke

The Long Slide

Men and Sharks

The Sudden Light

Dr. Joseph Needham

Science Fiction: Science Fact?

Certain of Uncertainty

Time Stood Still

Fuel for the Future

Let Newton Be

Special Senses

An Affair of the Heart

10,000 Tombs

Toil, Sweat & Tears

The Big Dishes and the Living Stream

Boys on Bubbles

Windows of the Soul

The Troubled Mind

A Man of Two Visions

A Theory of the Earth

Route 128

The Beginning of Life

So You Want to Be an Inventor?

Chance and Decay

Towers of Ilium

Man in Space

Destination Mars

Man Meets Duck

Where Must the Money Go?

Genes in Action

The Lonely Children

Man of Science

The Dolphins That Joined the Navy

M.I.T's ABC

Ten Years in the Antarctic

The Athlete

From Peenemünde to the Moon

Sex-Change?

The Structure of Life

Hand Me My Sword, Humphrey

Sons of Cain

How Best to Make a Man, How Best to Make a Scientist

Dynamo - The Life of Michael Faraday

Migraine

How Safe is Surgery?

The Shape of War to Come

Memory

Masters of the Desert

Cancer - The Smoker's Gamble

Science and the Supernatural

Hypnosis

The War of the Boffins

Aspects of Alcohol

Lords of the Sea

Will Art Last?

Air Safety - The Unknown Factor

The Life and Death of the Pine Processionary

Koestler on Creativity

The World of Ted Serios

Professor in Toyland

An Ingenious Man - Sir H. John Baker

Man's Best Friend

Once a Junkie

Towns, Traffic and Tomorrow

The Man Makers

Man in Search of Himself

Investigating Murder

The Equation of Murder

The Lindemann Enigma

From Field to Factory

Comfort on Aging

Experiments in War

African Medicine

The Broken Bridge

Children Without Words

Computer Revolution

The Doctor's Dilemma

In the Matter of Dr. Alfred Nobel

Wheels Within Wheels

Black Man, White Science

Hidden World

The Talgai Skull

Phantasmagoria: The Magic Lantern

Inside Every Fat Man

If Only They Could Speak

The Miraculous Wonder: The Human Eye

The Years of the Locust

The Gifted Child

The Last of the Polymaths

Music and the Mind

Report on V.D.

A True Madness

Extra Sensory Perception

The Drift from Science

Powers of Persuasion

The View from Space

The Unborn Patient

King Solomon's Garden

Muck Today, Poison Tomorrow

Shark

Technology and Self-Determination

After Apollo

Discovery

Machines and People

Science on Safari

The Problem of Pain

Four Fast Legs and a Nose

Father of the Man

Master of the Microscope

C.E.R.N.

Snap, Crackle and Bang

Cancer Now

There's a Rhino in My Sugar

Fit to Live

Don't Cackle, Lay Eggs

How Much Do You Drink?

A Game of War

Bread

For the Safety of Mankind

Just Another World

Henry Royce, Mechanic

A Disease of Our Time - Stress

A Disease of Our Time - Heart Attacks

Sex and Sexuality

Whose Coast?

A Much Wanted Child

The Expert Witness

After the Iron Age

Let the Therapy Fit the Crime

The World Outside

In the Beginning Was the Word

The Drifting of the Continents

A Case of Priority

The Fretful Elements

One Man's Meat

Only Skin Deep

Wolves and Wolfmen

A Measure of Uncertainty

The Manhunters

Don't Get Sick in America

Crown of Thorns

Noah's Ark in Kensington

Virus

Water, Water

All Creatures Great and Small

Child for a Lifetime

Something for Our Children

Million Ton Tanker

The Insect War

The Savage Mind

Tanks

Mind the Machine

Square Pegs

The City That Waits to Die

The Man Who Talks to Frogs

The Gargantuan Triumph of Science

Wildlife - The Last Great Battle

Great Ormond Street

A Bulldozer Through Heaven

Rumors of War

I'm Dependent - You're Addicted

Kuru - To Tremble with Fear

Due to a Lack of Interest, Tomorrow Has Been Canceled

What Kind of Doctor?

Nice Sort of Accident to Have

The Wood

The Measure of a Man

Three Score Years and Then?

Darwin's Bulldog

The Secret

What Every Girl Should Know

Tastes of Food to Come

Looking for a Happy Landing

A Case of Depression

The Total War Machine

The Dinosaur Hunters

Your Country Needs You

Rheumatism

If at First You Don't Succeed...You Don't Succeed

One Liverpool or Two?

Rutherford, Cavendish

The Fierce People

The Men Who Painted Caves

The Crab Nebula

Can Venice Survive?

Willingly to School

Periscope War

Patently Absurd

The Missing Link

Navajo - The Last Red Indians

How Much Do You Smell?

Parasite of Paradise

The Day It Rained Periwinkles

Are You Doing This for Me, Doctor?

How They Sold Doomsday

For Love or Money

Whales, Dolphins and Men

What is Race?

Man-Made Lakes in Africa

Survival in the Sahara

Mind Over Body

Out of Volcanoes

The Wizard Who Spat on the Floor

Rail Crash

Do You Dig National Parks?

Sorry I Opened My Mouth

The Way We Move

The Life That Lives on Man

Sex Can Be a Problem

The Surgery of Violence

Hospital, 1922

When Polar Bears Swam in the Thames

The Making of the English Landscape

Shadows of Bliss

Billion Marsh

Do You Sincerely Want a Long Life?

The Making of a Natural History Film

Fire

Alaskan Pipe Dream

Their Life in Your Hands

Navigating Europe

Epidemic

Worlds in Collision

The Military Necessity

The Curtain of Silence

Crime Lab

When the Breeding Has to Stop

Science is Dead, Long Live Science

...And Where Will the Children Play?

Acupuncture: A Chinese Puzzle

What Time is Your Body?

Survival of the Weakest

Red Sea Coral and the Crown of Thorns

Lumbered with Back-Ache!

Airport

Do You Remember the Memory Man?

What a Waste!

The Laws of the Land

Do We Really Need the Railways?

The Telly of Tomorrow

The Rat Man

How Does It Hurt?

A Scientist Looks at Religion

In Search of Konrad Lorenz

Stretch Up Tall

Gilding the Lily

Black Holes of Gravity

What's So Big About Us?

The Steadfast Tin Soldier

Carry on Smoking

Air Crash Detective

An Element of Mystery

Digging Up the Future

Kula, a Reason for Giving

A Matter of Self-Defense

Bird Brain - The Mystery of Bird Navigation

Never Too Late to Learn

The Great Fish Hunt

Pedal Power

The Writing on the Wall

Where Did the Colorado Go?

The Future Goes Boom

Fusion: The Energy Promise

The First Ten Years

This Yankee Dodge Beats Mesmerism Hollow

The Hunting of the Quark

A Noah's Ark for Europe

Bridges: When It Comes to the Crunch

Search for Life

The Secrets of Sleep

Who Needs Skills?

Hills of Promise

The Race for the Double Helix

The Immigrant Doctors

Mines, Minerals and Men

What Price Steak?

Listen and Be Loyal

Adam or Eve?

An Unholy Scramble

Do as You Are Told

The First Signs of Washoe

The Other Way

Joey

The Neglected Harvest

How on Earth Did They Do That?

The Lysenko Affair

The Cleanest Place in the World

The Killer Dust

A Time to Be Born

The Unsafe Sea

The Change of Life

Project Fido

The Long, Long Walkabout

The Overworked Miracle

Not the Cheapest, But the Best

A Spoonful of Roughage

Brain Poison

The Bulldog's Last Bark

Benjamin

The McMaster Experiment

The Glazed Outlook

The Three Chord Trick

The Cleanest Place in the World

Strange Sleep

The Greatest Advance Since the Wheel?

How Do You Read?

The Sickly Sea

Happy Catastrophe

To Die, to Live - The Survivors of Hiroshima

Cannabis

Meditation and the Mind

The Trobriand Experiment

The Transplant Experience

Intimate Strangers

A Fair Share of What Little We Have

The Incredible Machine

King Coal Revived

A Question of Trust

The Case of the Bermuda Triangle

The Lords of the Labyrinth

Inside the Shark

The Chemical Dream

The Edelin Affair

The World of Margaret Mead

The Pathway from Madness

Geronimo's Children

The Vision of the Blind

A Lesson for Teachers

Why Did Stuart Die?

The Planets

The Children of Peru

Dying

The Great British Drought

A Home Like Ours... A Story of Four Children

What's Wrong with the Sun?

The Bull's Eye War

The Hot-Blooded Dinosaurs

Billion Dollar Bubble

The Selfish Gene

A Child of Our Own

Secrets of a Coral Island

The Long Valley

Half-Way to 1984

The Mystery of King Arthur and His Round Table

A Smile for a Crocodile

The Pill for the People

The Ape That Stood Up

The Human Animal

The Guinea Pig and the Law

Hunters of the Seal

The Red Planet

One of Nature's Hotels

Dawn of the Solar Age

Genetic Roulette

The Amazing Doctor Newton

The Trouble with Medicine

Silent Speech

The Green Machine

Horizon 2002

The River That Came Clean

Blueprints in the Bloodstream

40 Years of Murder

Darwin's Dream

The Cry for Help

The Sunspot Mystery

The Rhine's Revenge

Icarus' Children

The Healing Nightmare

The Great Wine Revolution

Living Machines

A Land for All Reasons

I Don't Want to Be a Burden

Zero G

The Message in the Rocks

The Eddystone Lights

Light of the 21st Century

The New Breadline

Now the Chips Are Down

Explosions in the Mind

One Small Step

The Tsetse Trap

A Whisper from Space

Prisoners of Hope

On a Different Track

Careering Into Science

Cashing In on the Ocean

Bags of Life

Innocent Slaughter

The Beersheva Experiment

Divers Do It Deeper

The Big Sleep

The Vital Spark

The Red Deer of Rhum

The Forever Fuel

In Search of Pegasus

The Keys of Paradise

Sweet Solutions

Bronze Age Blast-Off

The Real Bionic Man

A Mediterranean Prospect

Elements of Risk

Mr. Ludwig's Tropical Dreamland

Where Nothing Happens Twice

Journey Through the Human Body

The Fight to Be Male

The Robots Are Coming

Mexican Oil Dance

Tracks on the Oregon Trail

The Race to Reshape Cars

Dragnet for Diabetes

The Lost Waters of the Nile

Survival of the Fastest

A Touch of Sensitivity

A Treasury of Trees

Darkness Visible

Uranium Goes Critical

The Fat in the Fire

Decade

The Ghost of the Amoco Cadiz

You Are Old, Father William

Cleared for Takeoff

A Sporting Chance

Cancer Detectives of Lin Xian

The Big If...

Cash from Trash

Encounter with Jupiter

Portrait of a Poison

Magnet Earth

Goodbye Gutenberg

Invasion of the Virions

Beyond the Milky Way

Little Boxes

The Other Kenya

Moving Still

The Way Out

The Dead Sea Lives

Once in a Million Years

Smoker's Luck

Behind the Horoscope

The Mondragon Experiment

The Spike

The Slatemakers

Anatomy of a Volcano

Spend and Prosper

A Whole New Medicine

The Qualyub Project

No-One Will Take Me Seriously

Living with Dying

A is for Atom, B is for Bomb

Who Will Deliver Your Baby?

West of Bangalore

Gentlemen, Lift Your Skirts

Hello Universe!

Voices from Silent Hands

Did Darwin Get It Wrong?

East of Bombay

Resolution on Saturn - The Rings

Resolution on Saturn - The Moons

Heads I Win, Tails You Lose

The Hunt for the Legion Killer

Breaking in Children

The Grid

Butterflies or Barley?

Science for the People

The Race to Ruin

Death of the Dinosaurs

The Pleasure of Finding Things Out

The Cornucopia

The Race Against Time

Painting by Numbers

The Secret of the Snake

Finding a Voice

The Sea Beyond the Dunes

Whatever Happened to the Energy Crisis?

Notes of a Biology Watcher

The Cline Affair

The Million Murdering Death

Shots in the Dark

The Victims

The Future - Made in Japan?

The Private Face of Medicine

The Fatal Bargain

The Miracle of Life

The Case of the UFOs

A Killing Rain

Intimate Relations

The Scientist and the Baby

Brave New Babies?

The Professor of Surgery

The Chopper

The State of the Planet

The Mysterious Mr. Tesla

Sizewell Under Pressure

The Tropical Time Machine

The Geneva Event

How Much Can You Drink?

Talking Turtle

What Little Girls Are Made of

British Science - On the Wrong Track?

The Great Plains Massacre

Hard Rock

Better Mind the Computer

Madness on Trial

Sixty Minutes to Meltdown

Killer in the Village

The Case of ESP

The Artificial Heart

Dr. Priestley and the Breath of Life

Professor Hawking's Universe

The Cruel Choice

A Child's Guide to Languages

China's Child

The Earthquake Connection

Prisoner or Patient?

Cancer - The Pattern in the Genes

The Academy

The Intelligence Man

Microworld!

A New Green Revolution?

Spies in the Wires

Valley of the Inca

The Conquest of Parasites

Reflections on a River

A Normal Face

Prisoners of Incest

Signs of the Apes, Songs of the Whales

Professor Bonner and the Slime Moulds

The Mind of a Murderer - The Case of the Hillside Strangler

The Mind of a Murderer - The Mask of Madness

A Cruel Inheritance

The Malvern Link

Contented Cows and Other Animals

Picking Winners

The Brain Puzzle

Global Village

Ivan

A Mathematical Mystery Tour

Supercharged

Colourful Notions

A World of Their Own

Decoding Danebury

A Mission to Heal

The Mystery of the Left Hand

The Theatre of War

The Careful Predator

What Einstein Never Knew

Eurekaaargh!

Careering On

How to Film the Impossible

The Food Allergy War

The Goddess of the Earth

IRAS - The Supercooled Eye

A Prize Discovery

Are You a Racist?

Genesis

Bitter Cold

The Mould, the Myth and the Microbe

Outbreak: The Microbe Masters the Mould

The Wrong Stuff

Science...Fiction?

The Children of Eve

The New Face of Leprosy

Hi-Tech a la Francaise

In the Wake of HMS Sheffield

AIDS: A Strange and Deadly Virus

The Case of the Frozen Addicts

Nice Guys Finish First

The Men Who Bottled a Cow

Twice Five Plus the Wings of a Bird

What Makes an Animal Smart?

A Handful of Sugar with a Pinch of Salt

Uranus Encounter

Who Built Stonehenge?

Battered Baby - From Generation to Generation

Battered Baby - Breaking the Chain

Doctors to Be

The Twentyfive Hour Clock

The Search for the Disappeared

The Blind Watchmaker

Riding the Stack

Bruno Bettelheim: The Man Who Cared for Children

Bruno Bettelheim: A Sense of Surviving

Energy from Outer Space

The Return of the Osprey

Can AIDS Be Stopped

Police Stress: The John Wayne Syndrome

To Engineer is Human

The Magma Chamber

Broken Images

Trial Babies

After Chernobyl - Closer to Home

Life Story

Making Sex Pay

The Anthropic Principle

Aircrash: The Burning Issue

The Riddle of the Joints

To Catch a Falling Star

In the Light of New Information

Janice's Choice

The Transplanted Brain

Death of a Star

Playing with Madness

The Canal in the Jungle

Death of the Working Classes

The Greenhouse Effect

Struggling for Control

Thinking

Patients on Trial

Purple Warrior - Rules of Engagement

Purple Warrior - Limited War

The Heart of Another

Easter Island - The Secrets

Easter Island - The Story

Doctors to Be - Trial by Interview

Doctors to Be - The Knowledge

Doctors to Be - Welcome to the Real World

Cancer at Bay

Traces of Murder

The Hope of Progress

A Newsday Revolution

A Good Test?

Superconductor - The Race for the Prize

Believe Me

The Quest for Tannu Tuva

The Book of Man

The Poison That Waits

Perils of the Deep

Smart Weapons

Wasting the Alps

In the Last Resort

Gaze in Wonder

In My Lifetime?

Concerto

Black Schizophrenia

Trial in the Jungle

Who Will Make Me Better?

A Wonderful Life

Why Buildings Make You Sick

Jubilee

Crash

The New Sixth Sense

Clive Sinclair: The Anatomy of an Inventor

Newpin: A Lifetime

Time of Darkness

Oil Spill

Medicine 2000

Food Irradiation: Would You Buy It?

From Earth to Miranda

Encounter with Neptune

Guess What's Coming to Dinner?

The First 14 Days

The 10,000 Year Test

Hurricane!

The Britannic Greenhouse

Cold Fusion

The Quake of '89 - The Final Warning?

The Sharpest Show of the Universe

The Company of Ants and Bees

The Intelligent Island

Legacy of a Volcano

Do Cows Make You Mad?

The Child Mothers

Signs of Life

AIDS: A Quest for a Cure

Sudden Death

Keen as Mustard

Smokers Can Harm Your Health

Coming In from the Cold

Small Problems with the Mirror

Two Weeks to Save the Earth

California Dreaming

The Day the Earth Melted

The Curse of Karash

Playing at Noah

Cashing in on Paradise

The Terracotta Time Machine

Measuring the Roof of the World

The First Americans

Inside Chernobyl's Sarcophagus

Colonising Cyberspace

Emerging Viruses

Camelford - A Bitter Aftertaste

Of Big Bangs, Stick Men and Galactic Holes

Food for Thought

The Long Road to the West

Half Hearted About Semi-Skimmed

T-Rex Exposed

The Shadow of Breast Cancer

Pest Wars

Molecules with Sunglasses

In Search of the Noble Savage

Malaria: Battle of the Merozoites

The Black Sun

Hitler's Bomb

An Expensive Theology

The Strange Life and Death of Dr. Turing

Hot Jam in the Doughnut

A Diet for a Lifetime

Before Babel

The Man Who Moved the Mountains

Iceman

Taking the Credit

Fast Life in the Food Chain

Dodging Doomsday

A Question of Sport...

Genes R Us

Awakening the Frozen Addicts

Cheating Time

TB - The Forgotten Plague

No Ordinary Genius (1)

No Ordinary Genius (2)

Mars Alive

Suggers, Fruggers and Data-Muggers

The Pyramid Builders

Here Be Monsters

Iceman (Update)

Whatever Happened to Star Wars

Resurrecting the Dead Sea Scrolls

Dante Goes to Hell

Ghosts in the Dinosaur Graveyard

The New Alchemists

Allergic to the 20th Century

Wot U Looking At?

The Electronic Frontier

A Vital Poison

Chimp Talk

Life is Impossible

Small Arms, Soft Targets

The Last Mammoth

The Man Who Made Up His Mind

Genie

Death Wish - The Untold Story

Air Crash - The Deadly Puzzle

Hunt for the Doomsday Asteroid

Hubble Vision

Some Like It Hot

Too Close to the Sun

Sir Walter's Journey

After the Flood

Against the Clock

The Blueprints of Genocide

Ulcer Wars

Deaf Whale, Dead Whale

Whispers of Creation

The Predator

Close Encounters

Orange Sherbet Kisses

Designer Wines

Tibet - The Ice Mother

Russia's Deep Secrets

Bones of Contention

Siamese Twins

Too Big Too Soon?

Farewell Fantastic Venus

Exodus

The Betrayers

Icon Earth

The I-Bomb

Foetal Attraction

Cracks in the Crust

Hearing Voices

Liar

The Human Laboratory

Nanotopia

Hunt for the Doomsday Asteroid (Update)

A Code in the Nose

AIDS: Behind Closed Doors

The Runaway Mountain

The Butchers of Boxgrove

Fermat's Last Theorem

A Miracle for Cancer ?

Nature's Numbers

The Gene Race

Masters of the Ionosphere

Assault on the Male (revisited)

Death by Design

The Planet Hunters

Inside Chernobyl's Sarcophagus (Update)

Fallout from Chernobyl

TV is Dead, Long Live TV

Aliens from Mars

Living Death

The Time Lords

Noah's Flood

Psychedelic Science

Fat Cats, Thin Mice

Shipwreck

Genius of the Jet

Smallpox on Death Row

Silent Children, New Language

Turned On by Danger

A Perfect Oil Spill

The Great Balloon Race

Crater of Death

Mind Over Body

Out of Asia

The Virus That Cures

The Man Who Lost His Body

Dawn of the Clone Age

Saddam's Secrets

Dr Miller and the Islanders

The Rainmaker

Hopeful Monsters

The Limits to Birth

Overkill

The Curse of Vesuvius

Mir Mortals

The Computer That Ate Hollywood

Magic Bullet

The Gulf War Jigsaw

Sexual Chemistry

Chimps on Death Row

Dinosaurs in Your Garden

Mosquito!

The Life and Times of Life and Time

Thalidomide: A Necessary Evil

Beyond a Joke

From Here to Infinity

Pandemic

Elephants or Ivory

Electric Heart

Sudden Death

New Star in Orbit

New Asteroid Danger

Skeleton Key

Wings of Angels

Mistaken Identity

Volcanoes of the Deep

Anatomy of an Avalanche

The Midas Formula

Breath of Life

Sheila Loughran has cystic fibrosis. This leaves her brother and sister, Damian and Josephine, with a terrible choice. Do they watch her die, or do they try to save her by donating part of their own lungs, a dangerous procedure that, at best, will leave them maimed? The harrowing decisions facing the siblings highlight the debate over the ethics of living donor transplants.

Lost City of Nasca

The Diamond Makers

Supervolcanoes

Miracle in Orbit

Complete Obsession - Body Dysmorphia

Is GM Safe?

Planet Hunters

Constant Craving: The Science of Addiction

Moon Children

Mega-Tsunami: Wave of Destruction

Conjoined Twins

The Lost World of Lake Vostok

Vanished: The Plane That Disappeared

The Secret Treasures of Zeugma

The Valley of Life or Death

Extreme Dinosaurs

Supermassive Black Holes

The Boy Who Was Turned Into a Girl

Atlantis Reborn Again

The Mystery of the Miami Circle

The Missing Link

Killer Algae

Ecstasy and Agony

Snowball Earth

Taming the Problem Child

The Mystery of the Persian Mummy

The Ape That Took Over the World

Life Blood

The Death Star

Cloning the First Human

Helike - The Real Atlantis

Volcano Hell

Fatbusters

The Lost Pyramids of Caral

Death of the Iceman

Parallel Universes

The Dinosaur That Fooled the World

The Fall of the World Trade Center

Archimedes' Secret

The Mystery of the Jurassic

Killer Lakes

The A6 Murder

The England Patient

Freak Wave

Stone Age Columbus

Homeopathy: The Test

The Day the Earth Nearly Died

The Secret of El Dorado

The Mystery of Easter Island

Living Nightmare

Averting Armageddon

Dirty Bomb

Sexual Chemistry (Update)

The Day We Learned to Think

Trial and Error

Earthquake Storms

Life on Mars (Update)

The Secret Life of Caves

God on the Brain

Flight 587

SARS: The True Story

The Big Chill

The Bible Code

Last Flight of the Columbia

The Hunt for an AIDS Vaccine

Percy Pilcher's Flying Machine

Time Trip

The Demonic Ape

The Moscow Theatre Siege

The Atkins Diet

Secrets of the Star Disc

The Dark Secret of Hendrik Schön

Thalidomide - A Second Chance?

Diamond Labs

T-Rex - Warrior or Wimp?

Project Poltergeist

The Truth of Troy

The Truth About Vitamins

King Solomon's Tablet of Stone

Derek Tastes of Earwax

What Really Killed the Dinosaurs?

Making Millions the Easy Way

Saturn - Lord of the Rings

The Hunt for the Supertwister

Dr. Money and the Boy with No Penis

Global Dimming

Einstein's Unfinished Symphony

Einstein's Equation of Life and Death

Living with ADHD

Neanderthal

An Experiment to Save the World

Who's Afraid of Designer Babies?

The Lost Civilisation of Peru

The Next Megaquake

Does the MMR Jab Cause Autism?

Malaria: Defeating the Curse

Tsunami: Naming the Dead

The Hawking Paradox

The Mystery of the Human Hobbit

The Doctor Who Makes People Walk Again?

Can Fish Make My Child Smart?

Madagascar - A Treetop Odyssey

Titan. A Place Like Home?

The 7/7 Bombers: A Psychological Investigation

The Ghost in Your Genes

The Life and Times of El Niño

Space Tourists

Waiting for a Heartbeat

A War on Science

The Lost City of New Orleans

Most of Our Universe is Missing

Winning Gold in 2012

The Woman Who Thinks Like a Cow

The Genius Sperm Bank

Bye Bye Planet Pluto

We Love Cigarettes

Nuclear Nightmares

Tutankhamun's Fireball

Survivors Guide to Plane Crashes

Chimps Are People Too

The Worlds First Face Transplant

Human v2.0

The Great Robot Race

Pandemic

We Are the Aliens

My Pet Dinosaur

The Elephant's Guide to Sex

Prof Regan's Beauty Parlour

Mad But Glad

Moon for Sale

Battle of the Brains

Skyscraper Fire Fighters

The Six Billion Dollar Experiment

How to Commit the Perfect Murder

How to Kill a Human Being

Total Isolation

What on Earth is Wrong with Gravity?

Is Alcohol Worse Than Ecstasy?

How to Make Better Decisions

How to Live to Be 101

Prof. Regan's Supermarket Secrets

Are We Alone in the Universe?

How Much is Your Dead Body Worth?

How Does Your Memory Work?

The President's Guide to Science

How Mad Are You? (1 of 2)

How Mad Are You? (2 of 2)

Jimmy's GM Food Fight

Do You Know What Time It Is?

Allergy Planet

Where's My Robot?

Why Are Thin People Not Fat?

Cannabis: The Evil Weed?

Why Do We Dream?

Can We Make a Star on Earth?

The Secret Life of Your Bodyclock

What's the Problem with Nudity?

How to Survive a Disaster

Who Do You Want Your Child to Be?

Why Can't We Predict Earthquakes?

Alan and Marcus Go Forth and Multiply

How Violent Are You?

Do I Drink Too Much?

The Secret You

Fix Me

Who's Afraid of a Big Black Hole?

Why Do We Talk?

How Long is a Piece of String?

How Many People Can Live on Planet Earth?

Naturalist Sir David Attenborough investigates whether the world is heading for a population crisis. In his lengthy career, Sir David has watched the human population more than double from 2.5 billion in 1950 to nearly seven billion. He reflects on the profound effects of this rapid growth, both on humans and the environment. While much of the projected growth in human population is likely to come from the developing world, it is the lifestyle enjoyed by many in the West that has the most impact on the planet. Some experts claim that in the UK consumers use as much as two and a half times their fair share of Earth's resources. Sir David exam…

The Secret Life of the Dog

Why Do Viruses Kill?

Pill Poppers

Don't Grow Old

To Infinity and Beyond

What Makes a Genius?

Did Cooking Make Us Human?

Is Everything We Know About the Universe Wrong?

Back from the Dead

The Death of the Oceans

What Happened Before the Big Bang?

Is Seeing Believing?

Miracle Cure? A Decade of the Human Genome

Asteroids - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Deepwater Disaster - The Untold Story

What is One Degree?

What is Reality?

Science Under Attack

The Secret World of Pain

Surviving a Car Crash

How to Mend a Broken Heart

Are We Still Evolving?

Predators in Your Backyard

Do You See What I See

Seeing Stars

The Nine Months That Made You

The Core

Are You Good or Evil?

Fukushima: Is Nuclear Power Safe?

Playing God

The Truth About Exercise

Solar Storms: The Threat to Planet Earth

Out of Control?

The Truth About Fat

Global Weirding

The Hunt for AI

Marcus Du Sautoy wants to find out how close we are to creating machines that can think like us: robots or computers that have artificial intelligence. His journey takes him to a strange and bizarre world where AI is now taking shape. Marcus meets two robots who are developing their own private language, and attempts to communicate to them. He discovers how a supercomputer beat humans at one of the toughest quiz shows on the planet, Jeopardy. And finds out if machines can have creativity and intuition like us. Marcus is worried that if machines can think like us, then he will be out of business. But his conclusion is that AI machines may sur…

Defeating Cancer

The Transit of Venus

Liz Bonnin presents a Horizon special about a rare and beautiful event in our solar system, one that we should all be able to see for ourselves - the transit of Venus across the face of the sun. It will start just before midnight of the 5th of June, and won't happen again for more than a century. Liz is joined by Lucie Green and Helen Czerski to show why the transit is such a remarkable event - transforming our understanding of our own solar system as well as helping scientists hunt for alien life on distant planets, hundreds of light years away.

The Truth About Looking Younger

Mission to Mars

Horizon goes behind the scenes at Nasa as they count down to the landing of a 2.5 billion-dollar rover on the surface of Mars. The nuclear-powered vehicle - the size of a car - will be winched down onto the surface of the red planet from a rocket-powered crane. That's if things go according to plan - Mars has become known as the Bermuda Triangle of space because so many missions there have ended in failure. The Curiosity mission is the most audacious - and expensive - attempt to answer the question of whether there is life on Mars.

Eat, Fast and Live Longer

How Big is the Universe?

How Small is the Universe?

Defeating the Superbugs

The Creative Brain: How Insight Works

How to Avoid Mistakes in Surgery

The Truth About Taste

The Age of Big Data

The Secret Life of the Cat

Little Cat Diaries

Fracking: The New Energy Rush

Swallowed by a Black Hole

What Makes Us Human?

The Truth About Personality

Monitor Me

Defeating the Hackers

Dinosaurs: The Hunt for Life

Sugar vs. Fat

Swallowed by a Sink Hole

Man on Mars - Mission to the Red Planet

The Power of the Placebo

How You Really Make Decisions

Living with Autism

The £10 Million Challenge

Where is Flight MH370?

What's Wrong with Our Weather?

Over the last few years, our weather in Britain has become more extreme. Last winter was the wettest ever recorded, as deadly storms battered the country for weeks on end. But previous winters have seen bitter lows of -22, as Britain was plunged into a deep freeze. What everyone wants to know now is: why is our weather getting more extreme, can we expect to see more of it in the future, and has it got anything to do with climate change? In this episode of Horizon, physicist Dr Helen Czerski and meteorologist John Hammond make sense of Britain's recent extreme weather and discover that there is one thing that connects all our recent extreme w…

Should I Eat Meat? - The Big Health Dilemma

Should I Eat Meat? - How to Feed the Planet

Allergies: Modern Life and Me

Inside the Dark Web

Ebola - The Search for a Cure

Is Your Brain Male or Female?

Secrets of the Solar System

Aftershock: The Hunt for Gravitational Waves

Dancing in the Dark - The End of Physics?

70 Million Animal Mummies: Egypt's Dark Secret

Is Binge Drinking Really That Bad?

The Trouble with Space Junk

Are Health Tests Really a Good Idea?

First Britons

OCD: A Monster in My Mind

Which Universe Are We In?

Cosmic Dawn: The Real Moment of Creation

Are Video Games Really That Bad?

The Immortalist

This episode tells the story of how one Russian internet millionaire is turing to cutting-edge science to try to unlock the secret of living forever.

Project Greenglow - The Quest for Gravity Control

The story of an extraordinary scientific adventure - the attempt to control gravity. For centuries, the precise workings of gravity have confounded the greatest scientific minds, and the idea of controlling gravity has been seen as little more than a fanciful dream. Yet in the mid 1990s, UK defence manufacturer BAE Systems began a groundbreaking project code-named Greenglow, which set about turning science fiction into reality. On the other side of the Atlantic, Nasa was simultaneously running its own Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Project. It was concerned with potential space applications of new physics, including concepts like 'faster-th…

The Mystery of Dark Energy

The effects of dark energy were discovered in 1998 but physicists still don't know what it is. Worse, its very existence calls into question Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity - the cornerstone of modern physics. The hunt for the identity of dark energy is on. Experiments on earth and in space generate data that might provide a clue, but there are also hopes that another Einstein might emerge - someone who can write a new theory explaining the mystery of the dark energy.

Oceans of the Solar System

The oceans define the earth. They are crucial to life and we used to think that they were unique to our blue planet. But we were wrong.It has recently been discovered that there are oceans all over our solarsystem and they are very similar to our own. And now scientists are going on an epic journey in search of new life in places that never seemed possible. Nasa is even planning to dive to the depths of a strange, distant ocean in a remarkable submarine.Horizon discovers that the hunt for oceans in space is marking the dawn of a new era in the search for alien life.

The End of the Solar System

The story of how our solar system will be transformed by the aging sun before coming to a spectacular end in about eight billion years. Astronomers can peer into the far future to predict how it will happen by analysing distant galaxies, stars and even planets in their final moments. In this film, Horizon brings these predictions to life in a peaceful midwestern town that has a giant scale model of the solar system spread out all over the city. As it ages, the sun will bloat into a red giant star, swallowing planets... as well as half the town. The fate of the Earth itself hangs in the balance. How will the solar system end?

Should We Close Our Zoos?

Liz Bonnin presents a controversial and provocative episode of Horizon, exploring how and why zoos keep animals, and whether they need to change to keep up with modern science, or ultimately be consigned to history. Should zoos cull their animals to manage populations? Liz travels to Copenhagen Zoo to witness their culling process first hand. They think it is a natural part of zoo keeping that is often swept under the carpet. Should some animals never be kept in captivity? In a world exclusive, Liz visits SeaWorld in Florida and asks if captivity drove one of their orcas to kill his trainer. But could zoos be the answer to conserving endange…

How to Find Love Online

Mathematician Dr Hannah Fry uses Dr Xand Van Tulleken as her guinea pig to test whether the algorithms that dating sites use to match people actually work. While Hannah builds a dating site, Xand meets the scientists investigating online dating - and learns what pictures to use and what to write in his profile. He tries out a 'bot' that has automated a swiping app and has an MRI scan to find out whether his brain is equipped for love. 50 members of the public take part in some mini experiments at a date night - and Xand goes on various dates to test whether the algorithm is better than him choosing randomly.

Ice Station Antarctica

BBC weatherman Peter Gibbs makes an emotional return to Antarctica, years after he lived and worked at the British Antarctic Survey's Halley Research Station. During his time, the station was key to the discovery of the ozone hole, and upon his return, Peter is delighted to see the cutting-edge science being done at Halley today.

Curing Alzheimer's

Horizon investigates a new era of Alzheimer's research, which is bringing hope to millions across the world. New scanning and gene technology is allowing scientists to identify the disease at its earliest stages, often 15 years before symptoms appear. A series of new drugs trials in Colombia, the USA and Europe are showing startling success in reducing beta amyloid, the protein which is a hallmark of the disease. It is becoming clear that changes in lifestyle can prevent the development of the disease. A new system inside the brain has been discovered which clears amyloid when we are in deep sleep, but allows it to accumulate if we don't sle…

E-Cigarettes: Miracle or Menace?

Michael Mosley investigates the dramatic rise in e-cigarettes. They are everywhere these days, but what does the latest scientific research on them reveal? Michael reveals what e-cigarettes are really doing to your health. Are they really better for you than cigarettes? What is actually in them? Is passive vapour harmful? And can they really stop you from smoking? Michael meets some of the scientists around the world studying them, asks a group of volunteers to try to give up smoking regular cigarettes using them, and even takes up 'vaping' himself, smoking an e-cigarette every day for a month to see the effects on his own health - no easy t…

Why Are We Getting So Fat

Sports Doping - Winning at Any Cost?

Dr Xand van Tulleken investigates the world of performance-enhancing drugs - from the athletes seeking the rewards of fame, glory and lucrative sponsorship deals to the hundreds of thousands of people in the UK now regularly taking anabolic steroids to look good and buff up. What are these drugs? What do they do to the body? And is it worth it? Xand's investigation reveals the extraordinary gamble dopers take with their health. Long-term effects include kidney failure, cognitive impairment and testicular shrinkage and Xand witnesses how users are self-experimenting with drugs that have not yet been approved for human use. Horizon uncovers th…

Special - Inside Cern

With exclusive behind-the-scenes access, Horizon follows the highs and lows of an extraordinary story in particle physics. In June 2015, teams at CERN started running the large hadron collider at the highest energy ever. Rumours quickly emerged that they were on the brink of a huge discovery. A mysterious bump in some data suggested a first glimpse of a brand new particle that could change our understanding of how the universe works. A new particle could hint at extra dimensions and help us understand the very beginning of the universe - but first the team has to find it. Horizon follows the scientists as they hunt for the elusive signals th…

My Amazing Twin

The acerbically witty and severely facially disfigured broadcaster Adam Pearson presents a personal film about genetics. He and his twin brother Neil are genetically identical and both share the same genetic disease, Neurofibromatosis 1 (Nf1) - yet they are completely different. Adam's face is covered with growths, whereas Neil looks completely normal. Neil has short term memory loss, whereas Adam is razor sharp.How can the same genetic disease affect identical twins so differently?Adam is on the cusp of a successful film and television career, but the disease has left tumours on his face that are growing out of control and he could lose his…

Jimmy Carr and the Science of Laughter

Comedian Jimmy Carr takes over Horizon for this one-off special programme, produced as part of BBC2's sitcom season. Jimmy turns venerable documentary strand Horizon into a chat show, with eminent laughter scientists as guests and a studio audience to use as guinea pigs. Jimmy and his guests try to get to the bottom of what laughter is, why we enjoy it so much and what, if anything, it has to do with comedy. Between them, and with the help of contributions from other scientists on film, Jimmy and guests discover that laughter is much older than our species, and may well have contributed to making us human. With professors Sophie Scott, Robin…

The Lost Tribes of Humanity

Alice Roberts explores the latest discoveries in the study of human origins, revealing the transformation that has been brought about in this field by genetics. Traditional paleo-anthropology, based on fossils, is being transformed by advanced genome sequencing techniques. We now know that there were at least four other distinct species of human on the planet at the same time as us - some of them identified from astonishingly well-preserved DNA extracted from 50,000-year-old bones, others hinted at by archaic sections of DNA hidden in our modern genome. What's more, we now know that our ancestors met and interacted with these other humans, i…

The Wildest Weather in the Universe

We love talking about the weather - is it too hot or too cold, too wet or too windy? It's a national obsession. Now scientists have started looking to the heavens and wondering what the weather might be like on other planets. Today, we are witnessing the birth of extra-terrestrial meteorology, as technology is allowing astronomers to study other planets like never before. They began with our solar system, sending spacecraft to explore its furthest reaches, and now the latest telescopes are enabling astronomers to study planets beyond our solar system.Our exploration of the universe is revealing alien worlds with weather stranger than anyone …

Clean Eating - The Dirty Truth

Dr Giles Yeo investigates the latest diet craze and social media sensation - clean eating. In a television first, Giles cooks with Ella Mills, the Instagram entrepreneur behind Deliciously Ella, one of the most popular brands associated with clean eating, and examines how far her plant-based cooking is based on science. Giles sifts through the claims of the Hemsley sisters, who advocate not just gluten-free but grain-free cooking, and Natasha Corrett, who popularises alkaline eating through her Honestly Healthy brand. In America, Giles reveals the key alternative health figures whose food philosophies are influencing the new gurus of clean. …

Hair Care Secrets

The Horizon team have gathered together a team of scientists and doctors to investigate the incredible, natural material that is growing out of our heads - our hair. With access to the research laboratories of some of the world's leading hair care companies, including L'Oreal and ghd, the team explore the latest cutting-edge research and technology designed to push the boundaries of hair and hair care.

ADHD and Me with Rory Bremner

Comedian and impressionist Rory Bremner is on a personal mission to uncover the science of ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder), a condition which he has suspected he has. In this film, Rory learns about the science of ADHD, goes for a diagnosis, and tries the drug methylphenidate (also known as Ritalin) for the first time - just before walking on stage.

Why Did I Go Mad?

Following three people living with voices, hallucinations and paranoia to explore what causes them, examining the impact of social, biological and environmental influences.

Strange Signals from Outer Space!

For decades some have suspected that there might be others out there, intelligent beings capable of communicating with us, even visiting our world. It might sound like science fiction, but today scientists from across the globe are scouring the universe for signals from extraterrestrials.In 2006, husband and wife team Duncan Lorimer and Maura McLaughlin discovered a enigmatic signal from space, known as a fast radio burst. It was a pulse of radiation so bright, it didn't appear to be caused by any known object in the universe. Explanations ranged from colliding neutron stars to communication signals from an alien civilisation far more advanc…

Volcanoes of the Solar System

Volcanoes have long helped shape the Earth. But what is less well known is that there are volcanoes on other planets and moons that are even more extraordinary than those on our own home planet. Horizon follows an international team of volcanologists in Iceland as they draw fascinating parallels between the volcanoes on Earth and those elsewhere in the solar system. Through the team's research, we discover that the largest volcano in the solar system - Olympus Mons on Mars - has been formed in a similar way to those of Iceland, how a small moon of Jupiter - Io - has the most violent eruptions anywhere, and that a moon of Saturn called Encela…

Antarctica - Ice Station Rescue

Britain's state-of-the-art Antarctic research base Halley VI is in trouble. Built on the Brunt Ice Shelf, it sits atop a massive slab of ice thatextends far beyond the Antarctic shoreline. But the ice is breaking apart and just 6km from the station is a ginormous crevasse, which threatens to separate Halley from the rest of the continent, setting the £28 million base adrift on a massive iceberg.So Halley needs to move. But this is probably the toughest moving job on Earth, and the team of 90 who have been tasked with the mission aren't just architectural or engineering experts. They are plumbers, mechanics and farmers from across the UK and …

Cyber Attack - The Day the NHS Stopped

A few weeks ago, the National Health Service was hit by a widespread and devastating cyber attack - Horizon tells the inside story of one of the most challenging days in the history of the NHS.On the morning of 12 May the attack started. Appointment systems, pathology labs, x-rays and even CT Scanners were infected - putting not just data but patients lives at risk, and on every screen a simple - some may even say polite - message appeared. 'Ooops, your files have been encrypted!'But what followed was far from civilised. It was very clear that all the data on an infected machine was now scrambled and only the hackers could unscramble it. For…

10 Things You Need to Know About the Future

This episode of Horizon looks at the issues that will change the way we live our lives in the future. Rather than relying on the minds of science fiction writers, mathematician Hannah Fry delves into the data we have today to provide an evidence-based vision of tomorrow. With the help of the BBC's science experts - and a few surprise guests - Hannah investigates the questions the British public want answered about the future.Hannah tries to discover whether we could ever live forever or if there will ever be a cure for cancer. She finds out how research into the human brain may one day help with mental health, and if it is possible to ever d…

Dawn of the Driverless Car

The car has shrunk the world, increased personal freedom and in so many ways expanded our horizons, but there is a flipside. Fumes from car exhausts have helped to destroy our environment, poisoned the air we breathe and killed us in far more straightforward ways. But all that is going to change.This episode of Horizon enters a world where cars can drive themselves, a world where we are simply passengers, ferried about by wholesome green compassionate technology which will never ever go wrong. And it is almost here. Horizon explores the artificial intelligence required to replace human drivers for cars themselves, peers into the future drive…

Dippy and the Whale

Over the last two years, the BBC's science strand Horizon has been behind the scenes at London's Natural History Museum, following thedramatic replacement of the iconic Dippy the Dinosaur skeleton cast with the real skeleton of a blue whale - the world's biggest animal.Narrated by Sir David Attenborough, this special film follows the teams involved in what has to be one of the world's most unique engineering challenges.Replacing Dippy is brave and bold - it is the first thing visitors see when they enter the grand Hintze Hall, but the Natural History Museum is changing, and the installation of the colossal blue whale skeleton is the start of…

What Makes a Psychopath?

Presented by psychologist Professor Uta Frith, this is an in-depth exploration of the psychopathic mind including one of the most notorious of all, Moors murderer Ian Brady. Through an ongoing correspondence between the Horizon team and Brady, the film features some of the very last letters he wrote. The film also features a series of candid interviews with prison inmates who not only describe their crimes but why they think they committed them.Horizon explores not only how each individual's crimes were shaped by their own life experiences, but also gives an insight in to how these people think and behave. Working with the world's experts in…

Mars - A Traveller's Guide

With the dream of sending humans to Mars closer than ever before, Horizon has gathered the world's leading experts on Mars and asked them where would they go, if they got the chance - and what would they need to survive? Using incredible real images and data, Horizon brings these Martian landmarks to life - from vast plains to towering volcanoes, from deep valleys to hidden underground caverns. This film also shows where to land, where to live and even where to hunt for traces of extra-terrestrial life. This is the ultimate traveller's guide to Mars.

Goodbye Cassini - Hello Saturn

Being Transgender

Film exploring what it means to be transgender and what happens when a person transitions psychologically, physically and biologically. How does a person know their gender? Do they see themselves as male or female, or somewhere in between? More and more people around the world do not identify with the gender they were assigned to at birth. Increasingly, people are expressing their gender identity outside of the 'norms', and the lines of gender are becoming more blurred than ever. We follow a number of transgender people going through their own transition. From a socially transitioning transwoman to two young transmen embarking on hormones, t…

My Amazing Brain: Richard's War

Horizon follows the story of Richard Gray and his remarkable recovery from a life-changing catastrophic stroke. The film shows the rarely seen journey back to recovery. Recorded by his documentary film-maker wife Fiona over four years, this film shows the hard work of recovery.

Teenagers vs Cancer: A User's Guide

What is it like to be young and find out you have got cancer? What you will find out in this film may surprise you.This film, narrated by actor and comedian Jack Whitehall, tells 11 inspirational stories, revealing how a range of young people have dealt with their cancer diagnosis and the treatment process. We hear, primarily in their own words, about their fears, their hopes and their experiences - affirming the view that 'the best therapist for a teenager with cancer... is another teenager with cancer.'

How to Build a Time Machine

Time travel is not forbidden by the laws of nature, but to build a time machine, we would need to understand more about those laws and how to subvert them than we do now. And every day, science does learn more. In this film Horizon meets the scientists working on the cutting edge of discovery - men and women who may discover how to build wormholes, manipulate entangled photons or build fully functioning time crystals. In short, these scientists may enable an engineer of the future to do what we have so far been only able to imagine - to build a machine that allows us travel back and forward in time at the touch of a button. It could be you! …

Spina Bifida & Me

One in every 1,000 pregnancies in Britain has a spine or brain defect like spina bifida. Thirty years ago, actress Ruth Madeley was one of them. Despite having spina bifida herself, it is a condition she doesn't fully understand. In this programme, Ruth sets out to discover why she has it, whether it could have been prevented and what it means for her future.Ruth meets the lord campaigning for a change in the law that he says could prevent thousands of birth defects. And she discovers that a pioneering surgery could offer a different future for babies diagnosed with spina bifida, by operating on them before they are even born. She discovers …

Jupiter Revealed

Scientists start to peel back the layers of Jupiter to reveal the wonders within, using information gained from Nasa's Juno mission.

Stopping Male Suicide

Suicide is the biggest killer of men under 50 in the UK - causing more deaths in this group than car accidents, and even more than cancer. This means that the most likely thing to kill Dr Xand Van Tulleken is himself. And he wants to know why. In this sensitive film, Xand finds out what we know about why people develop suicidal thoughts, and whether there is anything that we can do about it.

A Week Without Lying - The Honesty Experiment

Deception is an integral part of human nature and it is estimated we all lie up to nine times a day. But what if we created a world in which we couldn't lie? In a radical experiment, pioneering scientists from across Europe have come together to make this happen.Brand new technology is allowing them to rig three British people to make it impossible for them to lie undetected. Then they will be challenged to live for a whole week without telling a single lie. It is a bold social experiment to discover the role of deception in our lives - to investigate the impact lying has on our mental state and the consequences of it for our relationships, …

The Placebo Experiment: Can My Brain Cure My Body?

Could the power of fake pills be used to treat some of our most common medical complaints? To find out, Dr Michael Mosley embarks on Britain's largest ever trial to investigate the placebo effect. He is heading to Blackpool to gather 117 people suffering from backache - one of the leading types of chronic pain - before trying to treat them with nothing but fake pills and the power of the mind.

Body Clock: What Makes Us Tick?

We all have a biological clock ticking away inside us that governs our daily rhythms. This affects our health as much as our diet and whether we exercise. So what can we do to manage this internal clock better?To find out, evolutionary biologist Ella Al-Shamahi locks former commando Aldo Kane in an abandoned nuclear bunker with no way of telling the time - for ten days. Monitored around the clock by a team of scientists, he carries out a barrage of tests to uncover exactly what makes our body clock tick.

Avalanche: Making a Deadly Snowstorm

In March 2018 an international team of scientists gathered in a remote valley in the Canadian Rockies to conduct a unique experiment - to attempt to see into the heart of a massive avalanche to see if we can find ways to save lives in the future. Avalanches kill hundreds of people every year. Even in the UK 25 people have been killed by these forces of nature since the year 2000. But we know surprisingly little about them - why they happen or how they are able to produce destructive forces so powerful that they can flatten entire villages. Equally disturbing is the fact that climate change means that the pattern of avalanches is changing. Th…

Vitamin Pills: Miracle or Myth?

Nearly half of us take a vitamin or mineral supplement every day, but what are these pills sold on every high street actually doing? Digging deeper than the eye-catching words on the packaging, Dr Giles Yeo investigates who really needs a supplement by putting our diets to the test.

Diagnosis on Demand? The Computer Will See You Now

Dr Hannah Fry uncovers the inside story of a healthcare revolution, with behind-the-scenes access to Babylon Health, who want to prove that their AI is a match for human GPs.

The Contraceptive Pill: How Safe Is It?

In recent years a groundbreaking new study has been released into the effects of the contraceptive pill. Research from Denmark claimed women on the pill and other forms of hormonal contraception were 70% more likely to be diagnosed with depression than those who were not. And another study has found hormonal contraception was linked to a seemingly dramatic risk of breast cancer.Negative headlines are nothing new for the contraceptive pill - first introduced in 1961, it has had a chequered history with early versions linked to cancer risk and life-threatening blood clots. Yet hormonal contraception remains Britain's most popular form of birth…

We Need to Talk about Death

Dr Kevin Fong makes a personal journey through the moral questions about death that face not just the medical profession, but each and every one of us.

Alastair Campbell: Depression and Me

Britain's Next Air Disaster? Drones

Drones are transforming our world. We use them to deliver our medicines, clean our skyscrapers and even fight fires. But there is a dark side to this airborne revolution, from a shocking rise in drone-plane near misses above our heads to last year's sustained drone disruption at Gatwick – Britain's second largest airport – that ruined the Christmas plans of 140,000 people and cost millions.In this documentary, high-risk specialist and former Royal Marine Aldo Kane sets out to investigate the scale of the threat drones pose to our airports and skies – from rogue hobbyists to determined terrorist attacks. He explores what technologies are out …

The Honest Supermarket: What's Really in Our Food?

For every pound we spend on food shopping, 77p goes to the supermarkets, giving them a huge influence over what we eat. But can we trust the supermarkets to tell us the truth about what we are buying and how it was produced? Or do their profits come first?In an experiment to discover the hidden truths about our everyday foods, Horizon has built the first ever truly ‘honest supermarket'. Drawing on the latest scientific research and leading experts from across the UK, the team have built a supermarket where the products are labelled with the real story of how they are produced and their effect on us and the environment. We invite the British …

Inside the Social Network: Facebook's Difficult Year

Following the teams inside Facebook, revealing a hidden technological playground. The film tackles difficult questions, like how our data is used, and also shows how Facebook works.

The 250 Million Pound Cancer Cure

Proton beam therapy is the one of the most technologically advanced though expensive cancer treatments in the world - but it has the potential to save the lives of children with otherwise incurable cancers.Over two years, Horizon follows the engineers, scientists and medics as they race to build two new centres, one at the Christie Hospital in Manchester and one at University College Hospital in London, as well as following as the first children awaiting the lifesaving treatment. This is one of the most complex challenges the NHS has ever attempted.

Cannabis: Miracle Medicine or Dangerous Drug?

Horizon investigates the very latest medical and scientific research into the effects of cannabis on the brain and the body, with the medicinal form of the drug now legal. A&E doctor Javid Abdelmoneim wants to find out whether it will help or harm patients. He meets the young epilepsy patient responsible for changing the law around medicinal cannabis in the UK, and sees the remarkable effect it has on his condition. He visits a medicinal cannabis farm in Denmark to learn how a company known for growing the recreational drug are now producing medicinal cannabis to be exported all over Europe. He also travels to Israel, hoping to find out …

Addicted to Painkillers? Britain's Opioid Crisis

Dr Michael Mosley immerses himself on the frontline of our prescription painkiller habit. In America, it is an epidemic. Now, new evidence raises concern about the UK's use of prescription opioids.

Chris Packham: 7.7 Billion People and Counting

Naturalist Chris Packham investigates the impact a growing human population is having on the planet, asking whether the earth can sustain predictions of ten billion people by 2050.

Toxic Town: The Corby Poisonings

The untold story of Britain's worst fetal poisoning scandal since thalidomide, when a group of ordinary mothers took on the establishment and won. Set in a post-industrial Northamptonshire town, the Corby Litigation Case was a landmark case with worldwide legal and medical ramifications - the first time ever that a court has recognised a link between airborne toxins and foetal development damage.

Coronavirus Special - Part 1

Investigating the scientific facts and figures behind the biggest public health crisis in living memory as a new coronavirus takes an unprepared world by storm.

The Restaurant that Burns Off Calories

Maitre d' and Extraordinary Places to Eat host Fred Sirieix and GP Zoe Williams open a restaurant with a difference, welcoming 20 unsuspecting diners for a slap-up meal. It all sounds normal enough, but this restaurant has something unexpected back of house - a functioning gym, where a group of fitness fanatics are poised on exercise bikes, treadmills and rowing machines, ready to burn off every single calorie ordered and consumed by the diners. This groundbreaking stunt for science strand Horizon is based on the latest scientific research, which suggests that when we are shown the astonishing amount of exercise required to remove excess cal…

Hubble: The Wonders of Space Revealed

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of its launch, this film tells the remarkable story of how Hubble revealed the awe and wonder of our universe and how a team of daring astronauts risked their lives to keep it working.

The Great British Intelligence Test

Mathematician Hannah Fry and doctor and broadcaster Michael Mosley join an Imperial College, London, experiment to assess the brainpower of the nation, putting members of the public to the test in a battle of wits as they pit young and old, males and females, and tech lovers and readers against one other. The results reveal new science about how people's intelligence changes through their lives, while Hannah and Michael examine groundbreaking new science on how lifestyle and love of technology is changing the human brain.

Coronavirus Special - Part 2

Dr Chris van Tulleken, Dr Hannah Fry and Michael Mosley examine the latest research and explore some of the big questions about Covid-19 and the pandemic it has created. Michael visits the UK government's high-security laboratory Porton Down, where vaccines are being tested. He also uncovers what the experience of the 2002 SARs epidemic reveals about this one. Both were caused by coronaviruses, but certain key changes to today's virus have allowed it to infect the world, where SARs was contained.

What's the Matter with Tony Slattery?

Tony Slattery was one of the most gifted TV comedians of the late 1980s and early 1990s, only to disappear from screens in 1996 amid rumours of a massive breakdown. As he approaches 60, he has been touring the country with a show that explores his past and his mental health. Although depression was diagnosed, he and his partner Mark Hutchinson are convinced he may have bipolar disorder, so Tony wants to have his mental health reassessed. But it will mean opening up about his addictions and a painful event in his childhood.

Pluto: Back From the Dead

The incredible story of how Pluto has been propelled from an unremarkable ball of ice on the edge of the solar system to a world of unimaginable complexity - where some form of alien life might exist.

Feast to Save the Planet

Gregg Wallace and mathematician Hannah Fry invite five special guests to a unique dinner party where they are scored on the environmental impact of every dish they choose.

Coronavirus Special - What We Know Now

Dr Chris Van Tulleken is joined by his brother Xand and Dr Guddi Singh to take us through the latest developments and answer current concerns.

Horizon Special: The Vaccine

With unique access to five vaccine teams around the globe, this is the extraordinary inside story of the unprecedented quest to develop and make vaccines to fight Covid-19.

How to Sleep Well with Michael Mosley

A third of the population regularly struggle with our sleep, which rose to one in two during the pandemic, the highest it's ever been. However, as more and more people seek help, an explosion in sleep science is enabling the study of sleep in ways not possible before. What's more, recent breakthroughs are uncovering what's happening in our brains and bodies while we're asleep, getting us closer than ever to understanding the importance of sleep for our health.Michael Mosley has struggled with his sleep for years and wants to know if the latest insights can help him and the millions like him. He discovers why cutting our sleep short can be li…

Making Sense of Cancer with Hannah Fry

Hannah Fry, a professor of maths, is used to investigating the world around her through numbers. When she's diagnosed with cervical cancer at the age of 36, she starts to interrogate the way we diagnose and treat cancer by digging into the statistics to ask whether we are making the right choices in how we treat this disease. Are we sometimes too quick to screen and treat cancer? Do doctors always speak to us honestly about the subject? It may seem like a dangerous question to ask, but are we at risk of overmedicalising cancer?At the same time, Hannah records her own cancer journey in raw and emotional personal footage, where the realities o…

Super Telescope: Mission to the Edge of the Universe

The inside story of the James Webb Space Telescope, following the Nasa team building the £8 billion device and the scientists taking its first image of distant stars and galaxies.

Confessions of a Brain Surgeon

Henry Marsh was one of Britain's leading neurosurgeons, operating on thousands of patients over a 40-year career, but after retiring he was diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer. As he awaits his own medical results, Henry tries to discover the lessons that can be learnt from a lifetime dedicated to neurosurgery, meeting the families of the patients who died in his care, as well as exploring the impact his work had on those closest to him, He reveals the huge emotional and personal challenges of a job where every day came with life-and-death decisions.

Artemis: To the Moon and Back

The inside story of the Artemis II mission - filmed over three and a half years at NASA. How did four astronauts travel to the moon, going deeper into space than ever before?