Horizon - 1992
Run Time: 60 mins
Air Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1992
Average Rating: ⭐ 7.4 (33 votes)
BBC Two19 Episodes
The Shadow of Breast Cancer
Season 29 - Episode 1
Horizon presents a new study that has highlighted the case of breast cancer.
Pest Wars
Season 29 - Episode 2
Horizon examines the advantages and disadvantages of biological pest control.
Molecules With Sunglasses
Season 29 - Episode 3
About the original discovery in 1985 of a third form of solid carbon, named Buckminsterfullerene after the architect who invented geodesic d...
In Search of the Noble Savage
Season 29 - Episode 4
Horizon explores the ecological track record of the North American Indians.
Malaria: Battle of the Merozoites
Season 29 - Episode 5
In this episode, Horizon look at attempts to persuade major respected organizations to do controlled trials on a synthetic malaria vaccine.
The Black Sun
Season 29 - Episode 6
Horizon follows five teams of scientists on the island of Mauna Kea in Hawaii as they wait for a solar eclipse.
Hitler's Bomb
Season 29 - Episode 7
Horizon investigates how in 1939, the Nazis led the race for the atomic bomb. Did scientific errors rob Hitler of a victory over the allies?
An Expensive Theology
Season 29 - Episode 8
This episode of Horizon looks at Britain's science spending and how it is falling behind it's competitors.
The Strange Life and Death of Dr. Turing
Season 29 - Episode 9
Horizon presents the life and work of mathematician Dr. Alan Turing.
Hot Jam in the Doughnut
Season 29 - Episode 10
This episode of Horizon is about how nuclear fusion has been heralded as the power of the future with the promise of clean affordable energy...
A Diet for a Lifetime
Season 29 - Episode 11
Horizon presents a story about what a women eats before and during pregnancy can determine the diseases her children may suffer from later i...
Before Babel
Season 29 - Episode 12
Horizon explores the development of languages all over the world and attempts to reconstruct the first spoken words.
The Man Who Moved the Mountains
Season 29 - Episode 13
In this report, Horizon presents that scientific observations have shown that the landscape is constantly moving.
Iceman
Season 29 - Episode 14
Horizon reports on the investigation into a well-preserved human corpse found frozen in an Alpine glacier.
Taking the Credit
Season 29 - Episode 15
Horizon investigates the claims by rival American and French scientists as to who first discovered the HIV virus.
Fast Life in the Food Chain
Season 29 - Episode 16
In this story, Horizon presents an investigation into the research to make livestock and poultry grow bigger and stronger.
Dodging Doomsday
Season 29 - Episode 17
Horizon brings you this report to explain when animal communities exceed carrying capacities of their environments, they crash spectacularly...
A Question of Sport...
Season 29 - Episode 18
Horizon presents the current evidence of a massive sporting fraud in the former Eastern Germany that has now been uncovered. The evidence sh...
Genes R Us
Season 29 - Episode 19
This Horizon program looks at the stereotyped image of the scientist.