Duration: 58'24''
Professor Brian Cox investigates the building blocks of life.
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Liz Bonnin joins a scientific team aboard the research vessel the Alucia on an expedition across the Galapagos Islands.
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1: Travelling | The Private Life of Plants
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10: Primates | Life
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10: Themes and Variations | Life On Earth
David Attenborough looks at some of the huge variety of mammals. The tree shrew has attracted great interest as it shows how mammal...
11: The Hunters and the Hunted | Life On Earth
David Attenborough explores the eternal duel between the hunters and the hunted - one of the driving forces of evolution.
12: Life in the Trees | Life On Earth
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13: The Compulsive Communicators | Life On Earth
David Attenborough seeks to explain how we came to dominate life on earth, tracing the African origins of humans to nearly t...
2: Building Bodies | Life On Earth
Sir David Attenborough presents a revised version of the original wildlife series about the remarkable evolution of life on our planet. Th...
2: Civilisations | H2O: The Molecule That Made Us
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2: Growing | The Private Life of Plants
David Attenborough continues his incredible journey into the world of plants. Remarkable time-lapse photography reveals how new leave...
2: Land Invaders | Life in Cold Blood
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2: Lost Worlds | Madagascar
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2: Method and Madness | In Search of Science
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4: Ice Worlds | Solar System
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2: Order out of Chaos | Wonders of the Solar System
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2: The Two Sisters - Earth and Mars | The Planets
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The Entire Universe
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The genetic modification debate | Science Britannica - Learning Zone
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How are elements made? | Wonders of the Universe
Brian Cox explains what elements are and how they are formed, including the importance of carbon.
A Night with the Stars
Professor Brian Cox takes an audience of famous faces, scientists and members of the public on a journey through some of the most challenging concepts...
Horizon: 40 Years on the Moon
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The Big Bang Machine
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