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Horizon Season 2008

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2008x01 How to Kill a Human Being aired Jan 15, 2008

Michael Portillo looks at the science behind executions. Former Conservative MP, Michael Portillo pushes his body to the brink of death in an investigatio... read more

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2008x02 Total Isolation aired Jan 22, 2008

Psychologists subject six volunteers to a world without stimulation. For the first time in 40 years Horizon re-creates a controversial sensory deprivation... read more

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2008x03 What on Earth is Wrong With Gravity? aired Jan 29, 2008

Dr Brian Cox wants to know why the Universe is built the way it is. Particle physicist and ex D:Ream keyboard player Dr Brian Cox wants to know why the Un... read more

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2008x04 Is Alcohol Worse than Ecstasy? aired Feb 05, 2008

A trip through the highs and lows of the UK’s 20 most dangerous drugs. Recent research has analysed the link between the harmful effects of drugs relative... read more

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2008x05 How to Make Better Decisions aired Feb 12, 2008

Lifting the lid on the business of human choices in an exclusive guide to making better decisions. We are bad at making decisions. According to science, o... read more

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2008x06 How to Live to be 101 aired Feb 19, 2008

While scientists have been searching for the secrets of long life, a few isolated communities have stumbled across the answer. The quest to live longer ha... read more

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2008x07 Prof. Regan's Supermarket Secrets aired Feb 26, 2008

Friendly bacteria, superfoods, cholesterol busting spreads, 99% germ free, whiter than white...it's almost impossible to find a product in the supermarket to... read more

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2008x08 Are we Alone in the Universe? aired Mar 04, 2008

Use the Drake equation to calculate the number of civilisations in our galaxy. For fifty years, the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence has been sca... read more

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2008x09 How Much is Your Dead Body Worth? aired Mar 18, 2008

Horizon investigates the medical revolution that has created an almost insatiable demand for body parts . When veteran broadcaster Alistair Cooke died in ... read more

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2008x10 How Does Your Memory Work? aired Mar 25, 2008

Horizon journeys into the human memory, from how it emerges in childhood, develops through to adulthood, and fades in middle age. You might think that you... read more

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2008x11 The President's Guide to Science aired Sep 16, 2008

Horizon asks some of the biggest names in science to have a quiet word with the new American president. The United States president is quite simply the most ... read more

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2008x12 How Mad Are You? (1 of 2) aired Nov 11, 2008

First of a two-part special. Ten volunteers have come together for an extraordinary test. Five are 'normal' and the other five have been officially diagnosed... read more

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2008x13 How Mad Are You? (2 of 2) aired Nov 18, 2008

Second part of the special documentary considering where the line between sanity and madness lies as ten volunteers come together for an extraordinary test. ... read more

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2008x14 Jimmy's GM Food Fight aired Nov 25, 2008

Jimmy Doherty, pig farmer, one-time scientist and poster-boy for sustainable food production is on a mission to find out if GM crops really can feed the worl... read more

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2008x15 Do You Know What Time It Is? aired Dec 02, 2008

Particle physicist Professor Brian Cox asks, 'What time is it?' It's a simple question and it sounds like it has a simple answer. But do we really know what ... read more

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2008x16 Allergy Planet aired Dec 09, 2008

We are in the grip of an allergy epidemic. Fifty years ago one in 30 were affected, but in Britain today it is closer to one in three. Why this should be is ... read more

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2008x17 Where's My Robot? aired Dec 16, 2008

Danny Wallace really wants a robot. He wants it to walk like him and talk like him. It's what scientists have been promising us for generations but it's a pr... read more

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