Horizon Season 48 Episodes

Episode 1

What Makes Us Clever? A Horizon Guide to Intelligence

Dallas Campbell delves into the Horizon archive to discover how our understanding of intelligence has transformed over the last century. From early caveman thinkers to computers doing the thinking for us, he discovers how clever we are.

Episode 2

What Is One Degree?

Ben Miller investigates scientific accuracy. He meets researchers working with extremes of temperature, and experiences some of the strangest effects of quantum physics.

Episode 3

What is Reality?

The quest to explain the nature of reality is one of the great scientific detective stories. Are we are part of a cosmic hologram? Do we exist in an infinity of parallel worlds?

Episode 4

Science Under Attack

60 mins

Nobel Prize winner Sir Paul Nurse examines why science appears to be under attack, and why public trust in key scientific theories has been eroded.

Episode 5

The Secret World of Pain

Series exploring topical scientific issues. Featuring the latest research into pain, one of the most common and mysterious human experiences.

Episode 6

Surviving a Car Crash

Meet the scientists working to make fatal car crashes a thing of the past. A remarkable fusion of mechanical engineering and biology promises to save countless lives across the world.

Episode 7

How to Mend a Broken Heart

Science series. Dr Kevin Fong meets some of the people who have undergone pioneering heart operations and the scientists who are pushing the limits of cardiac treatment.

Episode 8

Are We Still Evolving?

Dr Alice Roberts asks one of the great questions about our species: are we still evolving? There's no doubt that we're a product of millions of years of evolution. But thanks to modern technology and medicine, did we escape Darwin's law of the survival of the fittest? Alice follows a trail of clues from ancient human bones, to studies of remarkable people living in the most inhospitable parts of the planet, to the frontiers of genetic research to discover if we are still evolving - and where we might be heading.

Episode 9

Predators in Your Backyard

Wed, Jan 30, 2013

Across the world scientists are releasing predators, including panthers, bears and wolves, close to where people live. Horizon meets the scientists behind this radical scheme.

Episode 10

Japan Earthquake: A Horizon Special

Professor Iain Stewart examines the powerful geological forces that unleashed the devastating Japanese earthquake, bringing Japan to the brink of a nuclear meltdown.

Episode 11

Stuff: A Horizon Guide to Materials

Engineer Jem Stansfield looks back through the Horizon archives to find out how scientists have come to understand and manipulate the materials that built the modern world.

Episode 11

The Space Shuttle: A Horizon Guide

Documentary which brings together coverage from three decades of BBC programmes to present a biography of the space shuttle, from triumph to tragedy, and considers its legacy.

Episode 12

The End of the World? A Horizon Guide to Armageddon

Dallas Campbell delves into the Horizon archive to discover how scientists have tried to predict an impending apocalypse, and asks if science will save us when Armageddon arrives.

Episode 13

Do You See What I See?

If you have ever wondered if you see the same thing as the next person this episode of Horizon will help put your mind at rest. You may think a rose is red, the sky is blue and the grass is green, but it now seems that the colors you see may not always be the same as the colors I see. Your age, sex and even mood can affect how you experience colors.

Episode 14

Carrot or Stick? A Horizon Guide to Raising Kids

Child psychologist Laverne Antrobus delves into the Horizon archive to find out how science has shaped our approach to parenting and education over the last 50 years.

Episode 15

Seeing Stars

59 mins

Horizon follows the astronomers pushing the limits of science and engineering with a new generation of super-telescopes in the hunt for mysterious objects in the universe. Covering not only the spectrum of visible and invisible light, but also the spectrum of telescopes from deep space, aircraft based telescope, high altitude land based, right down to sub-aquatic .

Episode 16

The Nine Months That Made You

Horizon examines how the nine months you spend in the womb could have more lasting effects than lifestyle or genes.

Episode 17

The Core

For centuries people have dreamt of reaching the centre of the Earth. Now scientists are uncovering a bizarre and alien world that lies 4,000 miles beneath our feet.

Episode 18

Are You Good or Evil?

Horizon meets researchers studying psychopathic killers to try to determine what makes people good or evil. One such scientist believes he has found the 'moral molecule'.

Episode 19

Fukushima: Is Nuclear Power Safe?

Six months after the explosions at the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan, Professor Jim Al-Khalili sets out to discover whether nuclear power is safe.

Episode 20

Extinct: A Horizon Guide to Dinosaurs

Dallas Campbell delves into the Horizon archive to find out how our ideas about dinosaurs have changed over the past 40 years and how the mystery of their disappearance was solved.