Horizon - 2013-2014

Run Time: 60 mins
Air Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2013
Average Rating: ⭐ 7.4 (33 votes)
BBC Two11 Episodes

Monitor Me
Season 51 - Episode 1
Dr Kevin Fong explores a medical revolution that promises to help us live longer, healthier lives. Inspired by the boom in health-related ap...

Defeating the Hackers
Season 51 - Episode 2
Exploring the murky and fast-paced world of the hackers out to steal money and identities and wreak havoc with people's online lives, and th...

Dinosaurs: The Hunt for Life
Season 51 - Episode 3
The hunt for life within the long-dead bones of dinosaurs may sound like the stuff of Hollywood fantasy - but one woman has found traces of ...

Sugar v Fat
Season 51 - Episode 4
What's worse for us: sugar or fat? To answer the hottest question in nutrition, twin doctors Chris and Xand Van Tulleken go on month long h...

Swallowed by a Sink Hole
Season 51 - Episode 5
In February 2013, a hole opened up beneath a home in Florida, and swallowed a man. Jeff Bush was asleep when a sinkhole opened up beneath h...

Man on Mars - Mission to the Red Planet
Season 51 - Episode 6
Horizon goes behind the scenes at Nasa to discover how it is preparing for its most ambitious and daring mission: to land men - and possibly...

The Power of the Placebo
Season 51 - Episode 7
As they contain no active ingredient, placebo medicines and pills should not really work, but they are now being shown to be effective in he...

How You Really Make Decisions
Season 51 - Episode 8
Horizon uncovers the truth about how you really make decisions. Every day you make thousands of decisions, big and small, and behind all th...

Living with Autism
Season 51 - Episode 9
When pioneering developmental psychologist Professor Uta Frith started her training back in the 1960s, she met a group of beautiful, bright-...

Where is Flight MH370?
Season 51 - Episode 10
Horizon tells the inside story of the search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. With access to the key players on the frontline in the sout...

What's Wrong with Our Weather?
Season 51 - Episode 12
Over the last few years, our weather in Britain has become more extreme. Last winter was the wettest ever recorded, as deadly storms batter...