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Material scientist Zoe Laughlin has been obsessed with the material world all her life. From her workshop in the heart of London, Zoe explains the science behind new materials that will change six key aspects of our lives. Innovation in healthcare, construction, fashion, transport, defense, and communication are driving society forward. Zoe takes us on a journey like no other, meeting the scientists and entrepreneurs who want to use fungus to grow...
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Mathematician Dr. Hannah Fry explores the mystery of math. It underpins so much of our modern world that it's hard to imagine life without its technological advances, but where does math come from? In this episode, Hannah travels down the fastest zip wire in the world to learn more about Newton's ideas on gravity, follows the trail of perhaps one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th century, Georg Cantor, to Halle, and explores the contributions...
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Journalists Babita Sharma and Adnan Sarwar are beginning their epic journey along the still-contentious border that divides India and Pakistan. 70 years after the partition of India along religious lines and the creation an independent Hindu majority India and a new Muslim majority state of Pakistan, the pair are travelling either side of the 2000 miles border to discover the realities of the lives of those living there.
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Frankie and her expert team of troll trackers meet with a group of celebrities and ordinary citizens to track down the cyber-bullies and cyber-stalkers that have continued to fill their lives with anguish. Using the latest surveillance technology, the team track down the trolls, who until this point have had the luxury of hiding behind their screens, to expose them in a dramatic face-to-face confrontation.
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Mathematician Dr. Hannah Fry explores the mystery of math. It underpins so much of our modern world that it's hard to imagine life without its technological advances, but where does math come from? In this episode, Hannah explores a paradox at the heart of modern math, discovered by Bertrand Russell. These flaws suggest that math is not a true part of the universe but might be a human language. Hannah argues that Einstein's theoretical equations and...
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In this episode, Frankie Bridge and her expert team track down a troll who has spent the last two years harassing model and Reality TV start Nicola McLean. What is perhaps most shocking, is that the troll is a woman, desperate to forge her own modeling career, whose abuse has become increasingly threatening. Nicola, known for never backing out of an argument, is desperate to confront her troll and give her a piece of her mind. While the team begin...
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The British Library is the greatest storehouse of our history and culture. On its shelves are British works ranging from the thousand year old Beowulf to handwritten drafts of James Bond. Now Julia Donaldson has been given the chance of a lifetime, to explore six great Treasures of the British Library. Julia is the one of the UK's best loved and bestselling authors, creator of The Gruffalo, Zog, Snail and the Whale and many other spellbinding characters....
8) Meera Syal
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The British Library--a unique cultural treasure trove that holds everything from great novelist's first drafts to a world-class collection of sound recordings, the world's oldest Bibles to Kenneth William's diaries. Now actor, writer and novelist Meera Syal is exploring this staggering collection, searching for six truly inspiring and moving Treasures. Guided by key personal themes she wants to explore, Meera discovers everything from Jane Austen's...
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Mathematician Dr. Hannah Fry explores the mystery of math. It underpins so much of our modern world that it's hard to imagine life without its technological advances, but where does math come from? In this episode, Hannah goes back to the time of the ancient Greeks to find out why they were fascinated by the connection between beautiful music and math. She also meets experts who study the structure of viruses, experiment with infant understanding,...
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Journalists Adnan Sarwar and Babita Sharma are on the second part of their epic journey taking them both through the province of Punjab, along the volatile border that divides India and Pakistan. This lush, densely populated region was split in two at Partition and nowhere is the division more keenly felt.
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The experiment to stage the first ever computer-generated hit musical in London's West End steps up a gear, as a cast and creative team come on board to rehearse the new musical - 'Beyond the Fence'. Will the music and lyrics generated by computer be fit for the West End Stage? Will an audience of musical theatre diehards at a secret workshop for the show, who have no idea of the show's computer origins, spot anything unusual about the piece? How...
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This second episode uncovers the roots of an essential ingredient of any relationship - the art of conversation. The presenters come face-to-face with a whole range of creations - from one of the first talking robots, Alpha a 1930s gun-toting womaniser; and the one-sided conversations with Siri; or Valkyrie - a heroic female robot designed to pave the way for us to set up home on Mars; to a little robot called Kirobo - designed to be a companion on...
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Part journey of personal discovery, part journey into the future of neuroscience, this program meets the revolutionaries, mavericks and ground-breaking scientists operating at the far-flung frontiers of human knowledge into our brain's functions and capacity and asks the question, if we can we make ourselves faster, smarter, better ... is it right to do so? If our brain embodies who we are then who do we become by manipulating it? Presented by Lotje...
15) Jamie Cullum
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The British Library--the greatest repository of our culture, history and society. In its archives are everything from stunningly beautiful handwritten Korans to Captain Scott's diary; Karl Marx's letters and Sir John Gielgud's scrapbooks. Now six of these Treasures will be chosen and uncovered by the acclaimed jazz musician Jamie Cullum. Drawing on his own passions, and aided by the expert British Library staff, Jamie will track down wonders as diverse...
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Alice Morrison treks across the Sahara via camelback. Her journey is halted by the closed border between Algeria and Morocco so she heads west on another trading route. She stops in Tamegroute, where she finds a hidden library of ancient books, before reaching Guelmim with its bustling livestock market. Border disputes halt Alice's journey on the salt roads and she flies to Mali, Bamako where she visits the source of Timbuktu's wealth. When she finally...
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Dr George McGavin and Dr Zoe Laughlin explore one of the UK's biggest sewage works, a hidden world we rarely get to see. Processing one billion litres of wastewater a day - including what 1.7 million people flush down the loo - the program reveals the mind-boggling science behind how sewage is treated and what it tells us about how we live today. McGavin and Laughlin also discover a radical revolution in the science of sewage that is beginning to...
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Gold was in high demand in North Africa, and its source was the gold mines in sub-Saharan Africa, resulting long routes being forged across the desert. Alice Morrison hitches a ride in a crowded taxi of locals, Alice passes through the Islamic city of Fes, where she stays in a caravanserai; catches the Marrakech Express to the market town of Marrakech, where she learns to treat leather; treks in snow and storms across the mighty Atlas Mountains dotted...
19) Joy Of Data
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This high-tech romp reveals exactly what data is and how it is captured, stored, shared, and made sense of. Meet Dr. Hannah Fry who sees data as the essential bridge between two universes; Claude Shannon, who devised a way to digitize all information and launched the 'information age'; and Donald Davies, the inventor of packet switching. Along the way the film reveals the connection between Scrabble scores and online movie streaming, explains why...
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Gold was in high demand in North Africa, and its source was the gold mines in sub-Saharan Africa, resulting long routes being forged across the desert. Alice Morrison hitches a ride in a crowded taxi of locals, Alice passes through the Islamic city of Fes, where she stays in a caravanserai; catches the Marrakech Express to the market town of Marrakech, where she learns to treat leather; treks in snow and storms across the mighty Atlas Mountains dotted...