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Discovery Episodes

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    Mission to Mars

    Paul Arnold continues his series about expeditions with probably the biggest one of all

  2. Disaster in Waiting? Coastal flooding in England

    The most serious flooding ever to hit Britain happened in East Anglia in 1953

  3. Megalithic expedition in Spain

    Report from an archaeological dig at the Picos de Europa National Park in Spain

  4. Disaster in Waiting? The Vajont Dam

    The Vajont Dam Disaster in Italy 1963 remains the worst dam disaster of all time

  5. Disaster in Waiting? Mount Pelee eruption

    British geologist and hazard expert Bill McGuire explores three natural disasters

  6. Codex Alimentarius Commission

    The Codex Alimentarius Commission, or food safety scheme

  7. The Future of the Forests

    Report on the deforestation occurring in developing nations of the tropical world

  8. The Future of the Forests - Climate Change

    Examination of what climate change will mean for the world's forests

  9. The Future of the Forests

    Report on how deforestation depletes, degrades and destroys the planet's ecosystems

  10. The fourth dimension - more than meets the eye

    Documentary which explores the theory of a hypothetical universe

  11. Organic Chemistry

    Exploration into the work of organic chemists

  12. Spectrum - golden rice

    Report on the development of gene-altered rice

  13. Spectrum - the moon versus the oceans

    Comparing the amount we know of the surface of the moon to the surface of our own planet

  14. Gene therapy

    Disappointments following the promising development of gene therapy

  15. Origins part three - cave paintings

    Third programme in a series about human evolution

  16. Origins part two - the first humans

    Part two of a series examining human evolution

  17. Origins part one - Africa

    Report on the beginnings of human evolution in Africa

  18. Savant Syndrome

    Report on Savant Syndrome and the extraordinary mental abilities savants tend to have

  19. LIGO - going where no observatory has gone before

    Report on the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO)

  20. The inventor of the pill

    The inventor of the contraceptive pill, the novelist and playwright Carl Djerassi

  21. Synthetic Chemical Compounds

    The development of synthetic chemical compounds

  22. Theory of evolution

    A report on the debate of Darwin's Theory Of Evolution

  23. Genes - the shape of things to come

    A look at the pattern of gene formation in humans

  24. Islamic science

    What were the sources of strength in Islamic Science?

  25. Measuring time

    A look at time; how we measure minutes, weeks, months and years

  26. Seeing in colour

    How humans are able to see in colour, how much is biology and how much is cultural?

  27. The errors of metabolism

    A report on the heartbreak of metabolic degenerative diseases

  28. Life on the ocean floor

    An examination of the exotic life which exists at surprising depths in the world's oceans

  29. The rise of autoimmune diseases

    The human immune system, and how through inflammation it can itself cause disease

  30. Jordan's copper legacy

    Exploring the industrial past and hillocks of black slag left by copper-smelting in Jordan

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