Horizon - 1996
Run Time: 60 mins
Air Date: Mon, 8 Jan 1996
Average Rating: ⭐ 7.4 (33 votes)
BBC Two16 Episodes
The Butchers of Boxgrove
Season 33 - Episode 1
Investigates the case of the "Boxgrove Man". Follows archaeologist Mark Roberts who tries to piece together the history of the first English...
Fermat's Last Theorem
Season 33 - Episode 2
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 ...
A Miracle for Cancer ?
Season 33 - Episode 3
Examines the latest research aimed at conquering cancer. Includes research into vaccines for prostate cancer and skin cancer.
Nature's Numbers
Season 33 - Episode 4
Follows a group of biologists Conservation International who take a pragmatic approach to what species can be saved.They travel to the Boliv...
The Gene Race
Season 33 - Episode 5
Follows two teams of researchers, in Britain and USA as they use radically different genetic techniques in the race to find an effective tre...
Masters of the Ionosphere
Season 33 - Episode 6
Recounts the history of scientific attempts from Marconi onwards to understand the atmospheric layer, known as the ionosphere. Discusses int...
Assault on the Male (revisited)
Season 33 - Episode 7
Are changes in modern living increasing levels of oestrogen and threatening males of different species, from alligators to humans?
Death by Design
Season 33 - Episode 8
In this Horizon documentary, we look at the notion that each cell in our body is programmed to die. Understanding this concept has major imp...
The Planet Hunters
Season 33 - Episode 9
Follows astronomers from Manchester, Switzerland and California as they search for planets with liquid water on them, the prerequisite for l...
Inside Chernobyl's Sarcophagus (Update)
Season 33 - Episode 10
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 the...
Fallout from Chernobyl
Season 33 - Episode 11
Reports on the work by scientists Dr Keith Baverstock and Sir Dillwyn Williams to confirm that the outbreak of thyroid cancer in children in...
TV is Dead, Long Live TV
Season 33 - Episode 12
In this documentary, Horizon compares the future of television with the years of experimentation before the first BBC broadcasts in 1936.
Aliens from Mars
Season 33 - Episode 13
An investigation into claims that life once existed on Mars. NASA scientists and their critics discuss the fossils discovered in a small met...
Living Death
Season 33 - Episode 14
Looks at new treatments for patients in a persistent vegetative state. Focuses on the case of Geoffrey Wildsmith who was misdiagnosed as bei...
The Time Lords
Season 33 - Episode 15
An investigation into claims by researchers that time travel is not only theoretically possible but is already happening.
Noah's Flood
Season 33 - Episode 16
Follows the work of geologists Bill Ryan and Walter Pitman, who for twenty five years have been investigating evidence for the location of t...