Horizon - Season 33 / Year 1996
Season 33 / Year 1996
Network
Episodes16
DatesJan 8, 1996 - Dec 16, 1996
Episodes
Year 1996Episode 160 min
The Butchers of Boxgrove
Investigates the case of the "Boxgrove Man". Follows archaeologist Mark Roberts who tries to piece together the history of the first Englishman, from a shin bone nearly 500,000 years old, discovered in Boxgrove in Sussex.
Jan 8, 1996
Year 1996Episode 260 min
Fermat's Last Theorem
Tells the story of mathematician Andrew Wiles who has made it his life's work to solve the puzzle of Fermat's last theorem that has baffled minds for three centuries.
Jan 15, 1996
Year 1996Episode 360 min
A Miracle for Cancer ?
Examines the latest research aimed at conquering cancer. Includes research into vaccines for prostate cancer and skin cancer.
Jan 22, 1996
Year 1996Episode 460 min
Nature's Numbers
Follows a group of biologists Conservation International who take a pragmatic approach to what species can be saved.They travel to the Bolivian rainforest to assess missing species.
Jan 29, 1996
Year 1996Episode 560 min
The Gene Race
Follows two teams of researchers, in Britain and USA as they use radically different genetic techniques in the race to find an effective treatment against cystic fibrosis.
Feb 5, 1996
Year 1996Episode 660 min
Masters of the Ionosphere
Recounts the history of scientific attempts from Marconi onwards to understand the atmospheric layer, known as the ionosphere. Discusses interest shown by the US Military in the region which has led to the establishment of HAARP (High Altitude Auroral Research Project) which will beam energy directly into the ionosphere.
Feb 12, 1996
Year 1996Episode 760 min
Assault on the Male (revisited)
Are changes in modern living increasing levels of oestrogen and threatening males of different species, from alligators to humans?
Feb 26, 1996
Year 1996Episode 860 min
Death by Design
In this Horizon documentary, we look at the notion that each cell in our body is programmed to die. Understanding this concept has major implications for research into disease.
Mar 4, 1996
Year 1996Episode 960 min
The Planet Hunters
Follows astronomers from Manchester, Switzerland and California as they search for planets with liquid water on them, the prerequisite for life
Mar 11, 1996
Year 1996Episode 1060 min
Inside Chernobyl's Sarcophagus (Update)
In this episode of Horizon, which is a follow-up to the 1991 documentary, we follow a group of soviet scientists on a suicide mission as they search for the missing nuclear fuel inside the remains of the nuclear reactor 4.
Mar 25, 1996
Year 1996Episode 1160 min
Fallout from Chernobyl
Reports on the work by scientists Dr Keith Baverstock and Sir Dillwyn Williams to confirm that the outbreak of thyroid cancer in children in Belarus and the Ukraine was due to the Chernobyl disaster.
Apr 1, 1996
Year 1996Episode 1260 min
TV is Dead, Long Live TV
In this documentary, Horizon compares the future of television with the years of experimentation before the first BBC broadcasts in 1936.
Nov 4, 1996
Year 1996Episode 1360 min
Aliens from Mars
An investigation into claims that life once existed on Mars. NASA scientists and their critics discuss the fossils discovered in a small meteoric rock in Antarctica earlier in 1996.
Nov 11, 1996
Year 1996Episode 1460 min
Living Death
Looks at new treatments for patients in a persistent vegetative state. Focuses on the case of Geoffrey Wildsmith who was misdiagnosed as being PVS. He had awoken from his coma but was totally paralysed and unable to communicate. After two years he was transferred and it was found he could communicate by using a buzzer connected to a highly sensitive pressure-switch.
Nov 25, 1996
Year 1996Episode 1560 min
The Time Lords
An investigation into claims by researchers that time travel is not only theoretically possible but is already happening.
Dec 2, 1996
Year 1996Episode 1660 min
Noah's Flood
Follows the work of geologists Bill Ryan and Walter Pitman, who for twenty five years have been investigating evidence for the location of the biblical flood and Noah's Ark.
Dec 16, 1996
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