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The inventor of the pill

The inventor of the contraceptive pill, the novelist and playwright Carl Djerassi

• 23 mins

LIGO - going where no observatory has gone before

Report on the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO)

• 23 mins

Savant Syndrome

Report on Savant Syndrome and the extraordinary mental abilities savants tend to have

• 23 mins

Origins part one - Africa

Report on the beginnings of human evolution in Africa

• 23 mins

Origins part two - the first humans

Part two of a series examining human evolution

• 23 mins

Origins part three - cave paintings

Third programme in a series about human evolution

• 23 mins

Gene therapy

Disappointments following the promising development of gene therapy

• 23 mins

Spectrum - the moon versus the oceans

Comparing the amount we know of the surface of the moon to the surface of our own planet

• 24 mins

Spectrum - golden rice

Report on the development of gene-altered rice

• 23 mins

Organic Chemistry

Exploration into the work of organic chemists

• 24 mins

The fourth dimension - more than meets the eye

Documentary which explores the theory of a hypothetical universe

• 24 mins

The Future of the Forests

Report on how deforestation depletes, degrades and destroys the planet's ecosystems

• 23 mins

The Future of the Forests - Climate Change

Examination of what climate change will mean for the world's forests

• 24 mins

The Future of the Forests

Report on the deforestation occurring in developing nations of the tropical world

• 24 mins

Codex Alimentarius Commission

The Codex Alimentarius Commission, or food safety scheme

• 23 mins

Disaster in Waiting? Mount Pelee eruption

British geologist and hazard expert Bill McGuire explores three natural disasters

• 24 mins

Disaster in Waiting? The Vajont Dam

The Vajont Dam Disaster in Italy 1963 remains the worst dam disaster of all time

• 23 mins

Megalithic expedition in Spain

Report from an archaeological dig at the Picos de Europa National Park in Spain

• 24 mins

Disaster in Waiting? Coastal flooding in England

The most serious flooding ever to hit Britain happened in East Anglia in 1953

• 24 mins

Mission to Mars

Paul Arnold continues his series about expeditions with probably the biggest one of all

• 24 mins

Performance clothing

Can sports clothing and equipment make a difference to an athlete's performance?

• 23 mins

Circadian rhythms

The importance of the human body's natural clock or circadian rhythms

• 24 mins

The shape of the universe

The science of cosmology, which involves measuring the unmeasurable

• 23 mins

Three years after Kyoto

A look at what has happened since the Kyoto agreement on climate change 3 years ago

• 24 mins

Conservation and consumerism

A report on conflicting priorities in conservation

• 24 mins

Life story - the Cambrian period

A look at life in the Cambrian period, 500 million years ago

• 24 mins

Life Story - the Proterozoic era

A look at life in the pre-Cambrian era, more than half a billion years ago

• 24 mins

Life Story - flying dinosaurs

How dinosaurs learned to fly

• 24 mins

Living computers

Living computers - a combination of technology and living organic tissue

• 24 mins

Gene Pioneers - part three

Discussion on gene therapy with guest Dr Inda Vermer

• 24 mins