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7 Episodes 2009 - 2009
Episode 1
Wed, Jan 7, 2009 50 mins
Research scientist Mark Devlin and his team launch a revolutionary telescope with a NASA high-altitude balloon.
Episode 2
Fri, Apr 17, 2009 50 mins
Documentary, made by her great niece, about the British Jewish baroness who fell in love with the jazz genius Thelonious Monk.Pannonica Rothschild was born with everything, got married and had five children, but one track by a man she had never met inspired her to leave and start a new life in America.Helen Mirren is the voice of 'Nica', while Sonny Rollins, TS Monk Jr, the Duchess of Devonshire, Quincy Jones, Lord Rothschild, Roy Haynes, Chico Hamilton and others appear as themselves.
Episode 3
Mon, May 11, 2009 50 mins
High-school debaters are profiled as they train for competition.
Episode 4
Sun, Jun 7, 2009 50 mins
Set against the breathtaking backdrop of the Himalayas, this documentary follows the gripping adventure of six Tibetan teenagers on a climbing expedition up the 23,000 foot Lhakpa Ri, on the north side of Everest. A dangerous journey soon becomes a seemingly impossible challenge made all the more remarkable by the fact that the teenagers are blind.Believed by many Tibetans to be possessed by demons, the children are shunned by their parents, scorned by their villages and rejected by society.
Episode 5
Thu, Aug 13, 2020 50 mins
J Robert Oppenheimer was one of the most celebrated scientists of his generation. Shy, arrogant and brilliant, he is best known as the man that led the Manhattan Project to spectacular success.As the years progressed he also grew into a scientific statesman, leading a government agency, the Atomic Energy Commission, which was trying to develop ways to avoid a nuclear arms race. His attempts at politics, though, were a lot less successful than his scientific endeavours.
Episode 6
Mon, May 18, 2009 50 mins
Nati Baratz's documentary chronicles a former disciple's search for his reincarnated Tibetan master.After 26 years of isolated meditation in a mountain cave, Lama Konchog became one of the greatest Tibetan masters of our time. When he passed away in 2001 at 84, the Dalai Lama instructed his shy, devoted disciple Tenzin Zopa to search for his master's reincarnation. This 'unmistaken child' must be found within four years, before it becomes too difficult to remove him from his parents' care.
Episode 7
Thu, Apr 18, 2019 50 mins
Drama-documentary-animation hybrid starring Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite as a man living alone in the devastated world of 2055, watching archive footage from 2008 and asking why climate change wasn't stopped before it was too late.