Horizon - 2014-2015
Run Time: 60 mins
Air Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2014
Average Rating: ⭐ 7.4 (33 votes)
BBC Two18 Episodes
Should I Eat Meat? The Big Health Dilemma
Season 52 - Episode 1
Michael Mosley investigates the alleged danger in eating red and processed meat, and does a one month test on himself, doubling his meat int...
Should I Eat Meat? How to Feed the Planet
Season 52 - Episode 2
Dr Michael Mosley seeks to establish the truth about meat. Every year, humans raise and eat 65 billion animals - nine animals for every pers...
Allergies: Modern Life and Me
Season 52 - Episode 3
Changes to the bacteria that live inside all of us are responsible for increasing the number of people with allergies, suggests new research...
Inside the Dark Web
Season 52 - Episode 4
Twenty-five years after the world wide web was created, it is now caught in the greatest controversy of its existence: surveillance. With ma...
Ebola - The search for a cure
Season 52 - Episode 5
The Ebola virus. No-one knows exactly where it comes from but one thing is certain - it's one of the most virulent infections known to scien...
Is your Brain Male or Female?
Season 52 - Episode 6
Dr Michael Mosley and Professor Alice Roberts investigate if male and female brains really are wired differently.
Secrets of the Solar System
Season 52 - Episode 7
New planets are now being discovered outside our solar system on a regular basis, and these strange new worlds are forcing scientists to rew...
Aftershock: The Hunt for Gravitational Waves
Season 52 - Episode 8
Horizon travels to the South Pole to tell the inside story of the greatest scientific quest of our time. In March 2014, a team of astronomer...
Dancing in the Dark - The End of Physics?
Season 52 - Episode 9
Scientists genuinely don't know what most of our universe is made of. The atoms we're made from only make up four per cent. The rest is dark...
70 Million Animal Mummies: Egypt's Dark Secret
Season 52 - Episode 10
The team investigate the use of modern medical technology to scan Egyptian animal mummies from museums across the world. By creating 3-D ima...
Is Binge Drinking Really That Bad?
Season 52 - Episode 11
How bad can our drinking pattern be for our health? Doctors and genetically identical twins Chris and Xand van Tulleken want to find out. Wi...
The Trouble with Space Junk
Season 52 - Episode 12
In 2014, the International Space Station had to move three times to avoid lethal chunks of space debris and there is an increasing problem o...
Are Health Tests Really A Good Idea?
Season 52 - Episode 13
Michael Mosley puts himself through a battery of health tests available to people who feel perfectly well. From an expensive heart scan to a...
First Britons
Season 52 - Episode 14
Horizon reveals how new archaeological discoveries are painting a different picture of the very first native Britons. For centuries it's bee...
OCD: A Monster In My Mind
Season 52 - Episode 15
Most of us think that Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is just over fussy tidying. But it's actually much more serious. Sophie has to che...
Which Universe Are We In?
Season 52 - Episode 16
Imagine a world where dinosaurs still walk the earth. A world where the Germans won World War II and you are President of the United States....
Cosmic Dawn: The Real Moment of Creation
Season 52 - Episode 17
Forget the big bang. The real moment of creation was the Cosmic Dawn - the moment of first light. This is the scientific version of the stor...
Are Video Games Really That Bad?
Season 52 - Episode 18
The video game industry is a global phenomenon. There are over 1.2 billion gamers across the planet, with sales projected soon to pass $100 ...