Horizon - 2008
Run Time: 60 mins
Air Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008
Average Rating: ⭐ 7.4 (33 votes)
BBC Two17 Episodes
How to Kill a Human Being
Season 45 - Episode 1
Michael Portillo looks at the science behind executions. Former Conservative MP, Michael Portillo pushes his body to the brink of death in ...
Total Isolation
Season 45 - Episode 2
Psychologists subject six volunteers to a world without stimulation. For the first time in 40 years Horizon re-creates a controversial sens...
What on Earth is Wrong With Gravity?
Season 45 - Episode 3
Dr Brian Cox wants to know why the Universe is built the way it is. Particle physicist and ex D:Ream keyboard player Dr Brian Cox wants to ...
Is Alcohol Worse than Ecstasy?
Season 45 - Episode 4
A trip through the highs and lows of the UK’s 20 most dangerous drugs. Recent research has analysed the link between the harmful effects of...
How to Make Better Decisions
Season 45 - Episode 5
Lifting the lid on the business of human choices in an exclusive guide to making better decisions. We are bad at making decisions. Accordin...
How to Live to be 101
Season 45 - Episode 6
While scientists have been searching for the secrets of long life, a few isolated communities have stumbled across the answer. The quest to...
Prof. Regan's Supermarket Secrets
Season 45 - Episode 7
Friendly bacteria, superfoods, cholesterol busting spreads, 99% germ free, whiter than white...it's almost impossible to find a product in t...
Are we Alone in the Universe?
Season 45 - Episode 8
Use the Drake equation to calculate the number of civilisations in our galaxy. For fifty years, the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligen...
How Much is Your Dead Body Worth?
Season 45 - Episode 9
Horizon investigates the medical revolution that has created an almost insatiable demand for body parts . When veteran broadcaster Alistair...
How Does Your Memory Work?
Season 45 - Episode 10
Horizon journeys into the human memory, from how it emerges in childhood, develops through to adulthood, and fades in middle age. You might...
The President's Guide to Science
Season 45 - Episode 11
Horizon asks some of the biggest names in science to have a quiet word with the new American president. The United States president is quite...
How Mad Are You? (1 of 2)
Season 45 - Episode 12
First of a two-part special. Ten volunteers have come together for an extraordinary test. Five are 'normal' and the other five have been off...
How Mad Are You? (2 of 2)
Season 45 - Episode 13
Second part of the special documentary considering where the line between sanity and madness lies as ten volunteers come together for an ext...
Jimmy's GM Food Fight
Season 45 - Episode 14
Jimmy Doherty, pig farmer, one-time scientist and poster-boy for sustainable food production is on a mission to find out if GM crops really ...
Do You Know What Time It Is?
Season 45 - Episode 15
Particle physicist Professor Brian Cox asks, 'What time is it?' It's a simple question and it sounds like it has a simple answer. But do we ...
Allergy Planet
Season 45 - Episode 16
We are in the grip of an allergy epidemic. Fifty years ago one in 30 were affected, but in Britain today it is closer to one in three. Why t...
Where's My Robot?
Season 45 - Episode 17
Danny Wallace really wants a robot. He wants it to walk like him and talk like him. It's what scientists have been promising us for generati...