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Horizon
Horizon tells amazing science stories, unravels mysteries and reveals worlds you've never seen before.
- Language:
- English
- Country:
- United Kingdom
- Network:
- BBC Two
Episode guide
Seasons
1981
Episodes
Episode 1
Spend and Prosper
1981-01-05 · 60mHorizon presents a portrait of the renowned economist John Maynard Keynes, Cambridge Don, and Bloomsbury intellectual.
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A Whole New Medicine
1981-01-12 · 60mThis episode of Horizon is about holistic medicine, health for the whole person, which uses unorthodox therapies.
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The Qualyub Project
1981-01-19 · 60mHorizon explores the research of Egyptian doctors in trying to control bilharzia, a disease caused by parasitic worms.
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No One Will Take Me Seriously
1981-01-26 · 60mHorizon investigates the reports about a number of scientists who do not conform to contemporary scientific theories.
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Living with Dying
1981-02-02 · 60mHorizon investigates the care given to the terminally ill by hospices.
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A Is for Atom, B Is for Bomb
1981-02-09 · 60mIn this episode, Horizon presents a portrait of Dr. Edward Teller, whose opinions about nuclear war are highly controversial.
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Who Will Deliver Your Baby?
1981-02-16 · 60mHorizon reports on the changing role of the community midwife in Britain as more births take place in hospital.
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West of Bangalore
1981-03-02 · 60mA group of scientists are trying to solve public utility problems in Mysore, India.
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Gentlemen, Lift Your Skirts
1981-03-09 · 60mHorizon examines the design of Formula One racing cars with a particular reference to the aerodynamic 'skirt'.
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Hello Universe!
1981-03-16 · 60mHorizon explores probabilities of whether we have any intelligent neighbors in space.
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Voices from Silent Hands
1981-03-23 · 60mHorizon presents a documentary on deaf children and their struggle to learn the sign language.
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Did Darwin Get It Wrong?
1981-03-30 · 60mIn this episode, Horizon explores the new evolutionary theory that there are sudden, vs. gradual, evolutionary changes from one species to another.
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East of Bombay
1981-04-06 · 60mThis show is a Horizon documentary about the training by two doctors from India, Rajnikant and Mabelle Arole, who are trying to combat the curable diseases. These diseases are common killers in Indian communities. Also, a report on Salubai, one of these native health workers and her work at Kamkhed in Western India.
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Resolution on Saturn - The Rings
1981-04-11 · 60mHorizon presents a two part documentary on NASA's unmanned Voyager 1 spacecraft and the data it has sent back from the planets Jupiter and Saturn.
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Resolution on Saturn - The Moons
1981-04-13 · 60mHorizon presents the second episode of a two part documentary on NASA's unmanned Voyager 1 spacecraft and the data it has sent back from the planets Jupiter and Saturn.
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Heads I Win, Tails You Lose
1981-09-28 · 60mIn this documentary on nuclear energy, Horizon looks at three experts with regard to the prospect of a nuclear power station sited for construction near where they live.
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The Hunt for the Legion Killer
1981-10-05 · 60mHorizon investigates Legionnaires disease and the research being carried out in the USA to try find a cause and cure.
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Breaking in Children
1981-10-12 · 60mIn this story, Horizon follows the efforts of two mothers who attempt gain control over their very disobedient children.
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The Grid
1981-10-19 · 60mHorizon presents a followup episode of Gentlemen, Lift Up Your Skirts, covering the Formula One racing season while investigating the way the William's racing team fought the fierce competition of the French and Italian racings teams by finding ways around new rulings to make their cars first on the grid.
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Butterflies or Barley?
1981-10-26 · 60mHorizon reports on the conflict between the farmers and the conservationists over the English countryside.
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Science for the People
1981-11-02 · 60mHorizon presents a two part documentary looking at the science and technology inside the Soviet Union. In this episode, we look at why the Russians might need to import a chemical processing plant from the UK and computers from the USA when they have a quarter of the world's scientists and still give science and research the highest priority.
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The Race to Ruin
1981-11-09 · 60mThis is the second part of the Horizon documentary on the Soviet Union. In this report, we examine the basis for the space arms race between USA and USSR. Are the US efforts for the extensive space defense system to match the Russians based on a misconception of the USSR war effort from space?
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Death of the Dinosaurs
1981-11-16 · 60mHorizon investigates theories about the mystery of why the dinosaurs disappeared 65 million years ago.
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The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
1981-11-23 · 60mRichard Feymann was one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists and original thinkers or the 20th century. He rebuilt the theory of quantum electrodynamics, and it was for this work that he won the Nobel Prize in 1965. In this documentary he talks about his motivations to be a scientist and a teacher of science.
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The Cornucopia
1981-11-30 · 60mHorizon explores the Common Agricultural Policy of the EEC that produces mountains of food. We look at the position which many European farmers occupy in western European economies which leads to the creation of overproduction of agricultural products. Do they need to reform the policy?
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A Race Against Time
1981-12-07 · 60mHorizon reports on the efforts of the British Advanced Passenger Train (APT) engineering team trying to prepare the new APT for its first run.
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Painting by Numbers
1981-12-21 · 60mHorizon presents a documentary on the advances of computer graphics and its multiple uses in simulating reality in industry and science. It looks at the manipulation of 3-D images to paint, animate, design, and test scientific hypothesis.
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