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Dr Alice Roberts explains what cancer is and how it affects our cells.
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'Loot-box'' and game design | Darren McGarvey's Addictions
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1: Vaccines | Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer
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1: We Are What We Eat | The Secrets of Your Food
Michael Mosley and James Wong reveal the delicious science hidden inside our food. Michael begins by trying the first meal m...
2: A Matter of Taste | The Secrets of Your Food
Michael Mosley and James Wong reveal the science of our food. James visits the Peruvian Andes to learn how a bitter potato he...
2: Fighting For Survival | The Baby Makers
The technology, ethics and human stories of the assisted fertilization revolution.
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3: Data | Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer
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3: Hospice | Complex
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3: Unnatural Practices | The Baby Makers
4: Behaviour | Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer
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A Day at the Home | Further Education
A TeachersTV production showing the day of a carer in a retirement home.
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An example meal for people who "feast". Once they start, they don't stop so it is recommended the...
Alcohol and the brain | The Secrets of Your Food
Michael explains what happens to the brain when we drink alcohol.
Northamptonshire | Digging for Britain
Looking at the skeletons from 2023's Leicester Cathedral excavation, the burials become source material for a groundbreaking scientifi...
The perfect human? | Can science make me perfect? With Alice Roberts
What evolution has provided us with is a human body that works as a whole package: you can't replace ind...
Episode 1 | Britain's Biggest Dig
In advance of the construction of HS2, the biggest ever cemetery excavation in Britain reveals the forgotten stories of rich and poor in Ge...
Episode 2 | The Celts: Blood, Iron and Sacrifice with Alice Roberts and Neil Oliver
Series exploring the Celts looks at the golden age of the La Tene Celtic warrior. But by ...
Meat and protein | Britain's Favourite Foods - Are They Good for You?
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The Roman domination of the known world | A Timewatch Guide
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Waltons letters | The Secret Life of Books
Alice Roberts investigates Robert Walton's letters to his sister, which frame Mary Shelley's text.
What Makes a Human? | Horizon
Professor Alice Roberts investigates what exactly makes human beings different from the animal kingdom. What is it that truly makes us human?
Woolly Mammoth: Secrets from the Ice
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S2E5: The Ear, Nose and Throat | Dr Alice Roberts: Don't Die Young
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