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  1. Type A Meet Type B!

    What makes people early or late risers?

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    The Island of Secrets

    Haunting sound portrait of Orford Ness in Suffolk, Europe's largest vegetated shingle spit

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  3. Malaria: Return to Fever Road

    Documentary about the harsh realities of malaria within a rural Kenyan village community.

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    Wasting Away in the Outback

    The Australian government's deal with an indigenous community to take their nuclear waste.

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  5. Hot Planet

    Professors Iain Stewart and Kathy Sykes look at global warming and the planet's future.

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  6. Oil Spill - The Exxon Valdez Disaster

    Documentary retracing the errors that led to the Exxon Valdez disaster in 1989.

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    Power Failure? The Story of the Battery

    Mark Miodownik explores the prospect of a new generation of highly poweful batteries.

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    Ludwig Koch and the Music of Nature

    Sean Street tells the story of Ludwig Koch, the David Attenborough of his day.

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    Remembrance of Smells Past

    Ian Peacock discovers why certain smells can transport us back to our childhood.

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  10. Hacked to Pieces

    Jolyon Jenkins investigates whether we have lost the war on cybercrime.

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  11. Kings of the Road

    Billy Kay tracks down the men at the heart of the M8 motorway's construction.

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  12. Who Killed the Honey Bee?

    How an affliction is wiping out bees worldwide, which may affect global food production.

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  13. Cloudspotting

    Drawing on science, meteorology and mythology for a trip through the world of clouds.

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  14. Six Degrees of Separation

    Documentary unfolding the science behind the idea of six degrees of separation.

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  15. When Wales Shook the World

    Documentary celebrating the beauty of some of Wales's iconic engineering achievements.

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    Biomimicry: Inspired by Nature

    Scientist and broadcaster Prof Trevor Cox explores a new wave of biomimicry.

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  17. Eye to the Telescope

    KT Tunstall explores our fascination with space and its influence upon musicians.

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  18. Dawn to Dusk Safari

    Jonathan Scott follows the game trail in Botswana's Okavango Delta.

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  19. The Horizon Guide to Pandemic

    Virologist Mike Leahy uses 50 years of 麻豆社 archive to explore the history of pandemics.

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  20. The Horizon Guide to Mars

    How the possibility of life on Mars has fuelled man's quest to visit the Red Planet.

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  21. Tempus Fugit

    Why does time seem to speed up the older you get? Ian Peacock explores time perception.

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  22. Wallace v Darwin

    Arbenigwyr yn trafod 'Y Cynllwyn Darwinaidd'. Experts discuss The Darwin Conspiracy.

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  23. The Environment Debate

    A panel discuss the issues surrounding The Age of Stupid, which explores climate change.

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  24. Legion of Swine

    The story of the 2009 swine flu epidemic from the point of view of the virus itself.

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  25. Diet: A Horizon Guide

    Dr Susan Jebb charts the shift from malnutrition of the past to today's obesity epidemic.

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  26. Moments of Genius

    Geoff Watts and guests discuss some of the past week's Moments of Genius choices.

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  27. The Secret Life of Chaos

    How chaos theory can answer the question of where intelligent life originated from.

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  28. Aristotle's Lagoon

    How Aristotle's fieldwork on the island of Lesvos helped found the science of biology.

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    2010: Space Odyssey to Europa

    Astronomer Paul Murdin asks if Jupiter's moon, Europa, might sustain biological life.

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  30. Science on Trial

    Allan Urry investigates what happens when writs meet scientific debate.

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  31. The Moral Code

    Is morality hard-wired in the brain or learnt? Adam Rutherford investigates.

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    Inside the Brain of a Five-Year-Old

    How neursocience is heading for the classroom.

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  33. Nuclear Waste

    Richard Black asks how the UK is going to store its radioactive waste.

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  34. The End of God?: A Horizon Guide to Science and Religion

    Thomas Dixon uses the 麻豆社's archive to explore the conflict between religion and science.

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  35. The Secret Science of Pee

    Sally Magnusson provides an extraordinary insight into the scientific applications of pee.

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  36. Foreign Bodies

    Why do foreign students come to study in Britain and is the dream different from reality?

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  37. The Book Burners: Salman Rushdie

    Mike Wooldridge hears from Muslims who protested against 'The Satanic Verses'.

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  38. Secrets of the Universe

    Greg Foot uses everyday objects to explain the mysteries of the universe.

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  39. Cumbria: After the Floods

    After the Floods: following Cumbria's recovery from its disastrous floods.

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  40. Bad Nature

    Jo Brand asks wildlife presenters what makes their flesh creep.

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    Power to Persuade: The Story of NLP

    The 'science of success'? William Little explores the history and techniques of NLP.

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  42. The Joy of Ceps

    Alan Bennell of the Royal Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh praises the humble mushroom.

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  43. Schrodinger's Quantum Kittens

    Robin Ince explores the legacy of Schrodinger's Cat - the paradox of quantum physics.

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  44. The Stunning Controversy

    An inquiry into why so many Americans die after being shot by 'safe' police stun guns.

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  45. The Parrot Sketch

    Tony Hawks hears from some talkative parrots and the people who choose to live with them

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  46. Behind the Beat

    An attempt to make sense of the pulses, throbs, ticks and beats measuring out life.

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    Do We Really Need the Moon?

    Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock explores the moon's relationship to our planet.

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    Scientists of the Subprime

    Ehsan Masood examines how science could help prevent future banking crises.

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  49. The End of the World? A Horizon Guide to Armageddon

    Dallas Campbell asks if science will save us when Armageddon arrives.

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  50. My Nights with Emma B

    Adam Thorpe wrestles with translating one of the world's greatest novels, Madame Bovary.

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