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Report on research into biological body clocks, which can effect emotional and physical health and well-being.
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Episode 1 - The Twenty-Five Hour Clock
Episode 1 - The Twenty-Five Hour Clock Episode 2 - The Search for the Disappeared Episode 3 - The Blind Watchmaker Episode 4 - Riding the Stack Episode 5 - Bruno Bettelheim: The Man Who Cared for Children Episode 6 - Bruno Bettelheim: A Sense of Surviving Episode 7 - Energy from Outer Space Episode 8 - The Return of the Osprey Episode 9 - Can AIDS Be Stopped? Episode 10 - Police Stress: The John Wayne Syndrome Episode 11 - To Engineer Is Human Episode 12 - The Magma Chamber Episode 13 - Broken Images Episode 14 - Trial Babies Episode 15 - After Chernobyl - Closer to Home Episode 16 - Making Sex Pay Episode 17 - The Anthropic Principle Episode 19 - Aircrash: The Burning Issue Episode 20 - The Riddle of the Joints Episode 21 - To Catch a Falling Star Episode 22 - In the Light of New Information Episode 23 - Janice's Choice
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S24 • E1
The Twenty-Five Hour Clock
Report on research into biological body clocks, which can effect emotional and physical health and well-being.
1987-01-05
S24 • E2
The Search for the Disappeared
Report on how forensic scientists ae identifying individual victims amongst the people murdered by Argentina's military juntas, by examination and genetic testing of their remains.
1987-01-12
S24 • E3
The Blind Watchmaker
In this interview by Horizon, zoologist Richard Dawkins investigates an attack on evolution by scientific creationists, based on the book of the same name by the famous zoologist.
1987-01-19
S24 • E4
Riding the Stack
Astronauts and space shuttle designers talk about the risks of space flight, in the light of the space shuttle disaster of January 1986.
1987-01-26
S24 • E5
Bruno Bettelheim: The Man Who Cared for Children
Two part documentary on psychologist Bruno Bettelheim and his work with emotionally disturbed children.
1987-02-02
S24 • E6
Bruno Bettelheim: A Sense of Surviving
Two part documentary on psychologist Bruno Bettelheim and his work with emotionally disturbed children.
1987-02-09
S24 • E7
Energy from Outer Space
Report on exploration into releasing energy sources which came from outer space during the formation of the earth, 4,500 million years ago, and have lain dormant under the earth's crust. In Sweden a five mile deep drill hole was made to unleash this energy.
1987-02-16
S24 • E8
The Return of the Osprey
Documentary on the Osprey in north east America, where its natural habitat was being damaged by the use of DDT, but after some conservation work the Osprey is returning to the area.
1987-02-23
S24 • E9
Can AIDS Be Stopped?
Report on the development of the AIDS virus, and current research into vaccines to combat the disease.
1987-03-02
S24 • E10
Police Stress: The John Wayne Syndrome
Documentary on the increasing pressure put on the British police resulting in stress and psychological disorders, and also on the work of Dr. Douglas Duckworth, a psychologist at Leeds University who has worked with the police on these problems.
1987-03-09
S24 • E11
To Engineer Is Human
Engineer Henry Petroski explains why engineering can never be an exact science and looks at examples of engineering failures.
1987-03-16
S24 • E12
The Magma Chamber
Report on the research into volcanoes by British scientists Professor Geoff Brow n and Dr. Hazel Rymer, who have developed a technique of exploring the magma chambers of volcanoes and predicting when they will erupt.
1987-03-23
S24 • E13
Broken Images
Report on two sufferers of visual agnosia. The condition affects their ability to impose order on the visual world, even though they are not blind, but it does reveal a great deal about normal perception.
1987-03-30
S24 • E14
Trial Babies
Report on the different tests done on pregnant women to detect abnormalities in the foetus, with investigation of why these tests are not available in all pregnancies.
1987-04-06
S24 • E15
After Chernobyl - Closer to Home
Report on the safety of UK nuclear power stations, following the accident at Chernobyl in the USSR in 1986. The programme focuses on the nuclear installation at Hartlepool on Teeside, which has the smallest evacuation zone in the western world.
1987-04-13
S24 • E16
Making Sex Pay
James Gould, Professor of Biology at Princeton University, lectures on the mating habits of animals and humans.
1987-05-11
S24 • E17
The Anthropic Principle
Discussion of the Anthropic Principle, a scientific theory for man's place in th e Universe.
1987-05-18
S24 • E19
Aircrash: The Burning Issue
Report on the need for improved safety features on airplanes in particular the desirability of smoke hoods, plus an interview with a survivor of the 1985 Manchester aircrash.
1987-06-01
S24 • E20
The Riddle of the Joints
Report on research into rheumatoid arthritis.
1987-06-08
S24 • E21
To Catch a Falling Star
Report on the future and commercial benefit of research into astronomy conducted by the Royal Greenwich Observatory and other scientific institutions in Great Britain.
1987-05-15
S24 • E22
In the Light of New Information
Report on the evolution of laser light technology for communication in the 21st century, with a dramatised account of the effect of the technology on our daily lives.
1987-06-22
S24 • E23
Janice's Choice
Janice Blenkharn's mother died of Huntington's Chorea, which any child of a victim has a 50-50 chance of inheriting. Janice is faced with the choice of having a test, developed after research in South America, to see if she has this incurable genetic disease.
1987-06-29