Horizon - Season 33 / Year 1996

Horizon - Season 33 / Year 1996

Season 33 / Year 1996

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Episodes16
DatesJan. 8, 1996 - Dez. 16, 1996
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Episodes

The Butchers of Boxgrove
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
Fermat's Last Theorem
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
A Miracle for Cancer ?
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
Nature's Numbers
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
The Gene Race
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
Masters of the Ionosphere
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
Assault on the Male (revisited)
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
Death by Design
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.
März 4, 1996
The Planet Hunters
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
März 11, 1996
Inside Chernobyl's Sarcophagus (Update)
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.
März 25, 1996
Fallout from Chernobyl
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
TV is Dead, Long Live TV
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
Aliens from Mars
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
Living Death
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
The Time Lords
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.
Dez. 2, 1996
Noah's Flood
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.
Dez. 16, 1996

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