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What Is Reality?

What Is Reality?

There is a strange and mysterious world that surrounds us, a world largely hidden from our senses. The quest to explain the true nature of reality is one of the great scientific detective stories. Clues have been pieced together...

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8.47

The Story of One

The Story of One

Our world is built on numbers and the first of these was the number 1. Starting with scratches on a bone and heading through the Greek philosophers to the development of the Roman Numerals and the Arabic number system that fed...

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7.30

Living on Mars

Living on Mars

On the surface, the red planet’s freeze-dried world of rocks, ice, and dust looks like an unlikely place to plant a garden. But rocks and minerals found by the Mars rovers show it must once have had warmer, habitable living...

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7.38

Adventures In Human Evolution

Adventures In Human Evolution

This landmark series about the evolution of man answers fundamental questions. Who were our ancestors? When did they first walk the earth? Why did man survive when other species became extinct? These questions have inspired...

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6.25

Universe: The Cosmology Quest

Universe: The Cosmology Quest

Most of us are intrigued by questions to do with the origin and evolution of the universe. Where do we come from? Where are we going? These are fundamental questions. But no one knows the answers. In the last few years there have...

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6.89

Is Seeing Believing?

Is Seeing Believing?

Horizon explores the strange and wonderful world of illusions - and reveals the tricks they play on our senses and why they fool us. We show how easy it is to trick your sense of taste by changing the colors of food and drink,...

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6.80

Cloning the First Human

Cloning the First Human

Doctors Panayiotis Zavos and Severino Antinori claim they are ready to embark on the greatest human experiment of our age. They say they will attempt to clone a human being. Most people think the objections to this are ethical...

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5.44

The Death of the Oceans

The Death of the Oceans

One gets the feeling that the decision to frame the title The Death of the Oceans? as a question may have been taken at the last minute in order to discourage immediate despair on the part of the viewer. If the programme itself...

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8.13

Extreme Archaeology

Extreme Archaeology

Series aiming to excavate difficult archaeological sites all over Britain, with the help of Dr Mark Davies and a team of young diggers. Bridge on the River Wye - Traveling to the site of a Roman bridge in the Wye Valley, South...

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7.25

Nice Guys Finish First

Nice Guys Finish First

Nice Guys Finish First is a 1986 documentary by Richard Dawkins which discusses selfishness and cooperation, arguing that evolution often favors co-operative behavior, and focusing especially on the tit for tat strategy of the...

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8.20