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The Crowning of Everest - Episode 1
1953 Britain prepares to crown a new Queen and waits to hear if Everest has been conquered
Bad Blood - 6. Newgenics
Could powerful genetic technologies usher in a new eugenic era?
Bad Blood - 5. The Curse of Mendel
Mendel's insights are taken up by the eugenicists.
Bad Blood - 4. Rassenhygiene
The Nazis build a eugenic state.
Bad Blood - 3. Birth Controlled
The battle to control birth in 20th-century USA.
Bad Blood - 2. You Will Not Replace Us
In Jazz Age USA, the wealthy political elite embrace eugenic ideas with gusto.
Bad Blood - 1. You鈥檝e Got Good Genes
Eugenics is born in Victorian Britain and swiftly builds an international following.
The Susurrations of the Sea
The sounds of the sea, the words of people who listen to them, and new poetry.
A Bad Guy with a Gun
America's relationship with guns - told through archive.
Falling Stars
Poet Dr Sam Illingworth looks at our shifting relationship with scientific language.
