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Mon, May 21
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Discovery: Hurricane Rash
Kevin Fong looks at the surprising and heroic origins of modern day plastic and reconstructive surgery, born not in the operating rooms of Hollywood, but in the great air-battles of World War II.
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Mon, May 14
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Discovery: Science of Morality
How fixed are our moral beliefs? Carinne Piekema investigates how advances in psychology and neuroscience are starting to shed light on our moral choices.
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Mon, May 7
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Discovery: 1000 Days - A Legacy of Life
Mark Porter explores the new idea that your health as an adult is partly determined by what happens to you in the womb.
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Mon, Apr 30
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Discovery: Scott's Legacy: Programme 3 - Mars
One hundred years ago, the first humans reached the South Pole of this planet. More than 40 years ago, man first walked on the moon. When will our species first set foot to explore the planet Mars? Kevin Fong seeks a likely launch date, and asks who will get us there and why we really need to explore the Red Planet. He talks to Elon Musk, founder of the rocket company SpaceX. The commercial space pioneer claims that he has worked out to take humans to Mars for $500,000 per passenger with a...
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Mon, Apr 23
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Discovery: Scott's Legacy: Programme 2 - Moon
100 years ago, Scott reached the South Pole. 50 years later, the first geologist briefly walked on the Moon. Kevin Fong asks if why we might want to return to the lunar surface and what will get us. He talks to that first lunar geologist of Apollo 17, Harrison Schmitt and NASA’s Chief Administrator Charles Bolden, among others.
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Mon, Apr 16
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Discovery: Scott's Legacy: Programme 1 - Antarctica
One hundred years ago, Robert Scott's bid to lead the first expedition to reach the South Pole may have ended in tragic failure but Kevin Fong argues the scientific discoveries were much more important than who won the polar race.
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Mon, Apr 9
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Discovery: Titanic - In Her Own Words 09 Apr 12
To mark the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, the BBC’s Sean Coughlan narrates one of the most authentic versions of events in existence. Using voice synthesis to re-create the strange, twitter-like, mechanical brevity of the original Morse code, this programme brings to life the tragedy through the ears of the wireless operators in the area that night.
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Mon, Apr 2
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Discovery: Global Body 4 of 4 - Sydney 02 Apr 12
In the last of the Global Body series, Lynne Malcolm is joined by a panel of experts to discuss the future of the health of the human body.
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Mon, Mar 26
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Discovery: Global Body 3 of 4 - Los Angeles 26 Mar 12
In Global Body, Lynne Malcolm discovers if the Hollywood dream is really true for the health of millions of LA immigrants.
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Mon, Mar 19
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Discovery: Global Body 2 of 4 - Manila 19 Mar 12
Global Body goes to Manila to look at the health consequences of moving from the countryside to the city.
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Mon, Mar 12
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Discovery: Global Body 1 of 4 - Sri Lanka 12 Mar 12
Lynne Malcolm reports on how the modern world is affecting our biology. This week, rural life in Sri Lanka.
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Mon, Feb 27
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Discovery: Beyond The Abyss 2 of 2 27 Feb 12
Rebecca Morelle reports on what scientists have discovered in the deepest parts of the oceans.
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Mon, Feb 20
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Discovery: Beyond The Abyss 1 of 2 20 Feb 12
Rebecca Morelle meets the explorers building submersibles to return to the deepest point of the ocean, the Mariana Trench.
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Mon, Feb 13
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Discovery: Time 13 Feb 12
Science writer Zeeya Merali joins an international group of scientists as they gather to discuss the nature of time.
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Mon, Feb 6
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Discovery: Smart Streets 06 Feb 12
Angela Saini explores the revolution taking place in the streets beneath our feet as she reveals the story behind a new urban design movement called shared space
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Mon, Jan 30
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Discovery: Depression 30 Jan 12
Geoff Watts meets researchers trying to find a new way to fight depression by studying those who never get it.
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Mon, Jan 23
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Discovery: Depression 23 Jan 12
Geoff Watts meets researchers looking for clues to the origins of depression as a way of finding new solutions to treating it.
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Mon, Jan 16
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Discovery: SETI, prog 2, 16 Jan 11
Documentary series exploring the past, present and future of SETI
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Mon, Jan 9
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Discovery: SETI, prog 1, 09 Jan 12
Documentary series exploring the past, present and future of SETI
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Mon, Jan 2
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Discovery: Hypersonic Flight 2 Jan 12
Flying at many times the speed of sound has been an elusive goal of aeronautical engineers for many years. Gareth Mitchell looks at how near we are to achieving hypersonic flight.
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Mon, Dec 26 2011
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Discovery: Spooklights 26 Dec 11
Chemist Andrea Sella investigates things that go flash in the dark.
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Fri, Dec 23 2011
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Discovery: Exchanges At The Frontier 2011: Steven Pinker
AC Grayling in conversation with Steven Pinker, one of the world's leading authorities on language and the mind.
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Mon, Dec 19 2011
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Discovery: Higgs particles at CERN 19 Dec 11
Higgs particles at CERN. Roland Pease gets to meet the scientists and hears whether they’ve made a discovery.
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Sat, Dec 17 2011
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Discovery: Exchanges At The Frontier 2011: Gebisa Ejeta
AC Grayling in conversation with Gebisa Ejeta, a World Food Prize Laureate and an advisor to President Barrack Obama.
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Mon, Dec 12 2011
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Discovery: Antivirals 12 Dec 11
Antivirals. Kevin Fong looks at new techniques aiming to cure all viral infections
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Fri, Dec 9 2011
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Discovery: Exchanges At The Frontier 2011: Valerie Mizrahi
Valerie Mizrahi is the Director of the Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine at the University of Cape Town, where she has done ground-breaking work on tuberculosis. Join her in conversation with AC Grayling, where she talks about her zeal for medical research and her determination to bring life saving innovations to the developing world.
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Mon, Dec 5 2011
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Discovery: Crucial role of Leptin in the body
Leptin, a hormone produced by fat cells, failed to be a wonder solution to obesity 20 years ago. But now scientists believe it's critical to how the body works. Vivienne Parry investigates.
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Fri, Dec 2 2011
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Discovery: Exchanges At The Frontier 2011: Vilayanur Ramachandran
Vilayanur Ramachandran has been called the Marco Polo of neuroscience. Join him in conversation with AC Grayling, as he demonstrates some of the simple experiments which reveal hidden truths about all of our brains.
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Mon, Nov 28 2011
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Discovery: Antarctic subglacial lake exploration
One hundred years since humans first ventured to the South Pole, we are on the verge of a new era in Antarctic exploration. In Discovery Andrew Luck-Baker talks to scientists who’ll soon be entering the last untouched realms on the planet. They’re poised to drill into ancient lakes trapped beneath thousands of metres of polar ice. The scientists will search for unique forms of life in them and their efforts might ultimately lead to finding life on other worlds.
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Fri, Nov 25 2011
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Discovery: Exchanges At The Frontier 2011: Sir Paul Nurse
Sir Paul Nurse is a Nobel Prize-winning cell biologist and the new President of The Royal Society, the oldest science establishment in the world. Join him in conversation with AC Grayling, about the cell cycle, trying to cure cancer and his thoughts for the future of science.
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