William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice - "Michael Radford's adaptation of Shakespeare's play about a Jewish moneylender who seeks to forfeit a literal pound of flesh from his Christian nemesis."
Louis Theroux: Law and Disorder in Johannesburg - "Louis Theroux travels to Johannesburg, where the residents find themselves increasingly besieged by crime. Despairing of the capability of the police and the courts to protect them, many have turned to an industry of private security offering protection for a price. Are the sometimes brutal methods of these private police really a solution or just another part of the problem? ... "
Britain's Love Story - "A three-part series for ITV1, Britain’s Love Story charted the revolution in modern love, sex and marriage in Britain during the last 50 years."
Growing Babies - 2-part series - Part 1 "Laverne Antrobus investigates the theory of foetal-maternal conflict, an idea championed by Harvard evolutionary biologist Professor David Haig and controversially believed by some to be to blame for a wide range for a wide range of behavioural and psychological disorders such as Tourettes, depression and autism."
Part 2 - "Laverne Antrobus delves into the extraordinary world of foetal and infant neuropsychology as she tries to explain the curiosities of baby cognition. Babies just hours old can make complex inferences about people and objects, music and language, and even the principles of geometry and geography.
Antrobus asks how babies perceive the world around them, what they know and how they learn to process knowledge. She debates whether babies learn everything from experience or whether knowledge can be hardwired into their brilliant brains, an idea first postulated by psychologist Elisabeth Spelke when she unveiled theories about core knowledge."
Horizon: Allergy Planet - "We are in the grip of an allergy epidemic. 50 years ago one in 30 were affected, but in Britain today it is closer to one in three. Why this should be is one of modern medicine's greatest puzzles.
In search of answers, Horizon travels round the globe, from the remotest inhabited island to the polluted centres of California and the UK. We meet sufferers and the scientists who have dedicated their lives trying to answer the mystery of why we are becoming allergic to our world."
The Story of Asthma Island - "Documentary about how Tristan da Cunha, the most remote inhabited island in the world and a seven-day boat trip from Africa, could hold the key to unlocking one of the great mysteries of modern medicine - the genetic basis for asthma.
Featuring Napoleanic garrisons, volcanic eruptions and ship-wrecks, the film uncovers the extraordinary history of Asthma Island, its unique people and the scientist who has spent his career trying to unravel the secrets of their past."
True Stories: An Independent Mind - "An Independent Mind is a unique feature-length documentary inspired by one of the most fundamental and controversial of human rights: Freedom of Expression.The film features eight characters from around the world attempting to exercise their right to freely express themselves.Their stories include facing the threat of imprisonment for drawing a cartoon of the President, being sent to a labour camp for telling a joke, being tortured for writing a poem and being forced into exile for singing a song. These stories focus not just on the developing world but also on Western democracies."
The Medici: Makers of Modern Art - "Documentary in which Andrew Graham-Dixon reveals how the Medici family transformed Florence through sculpture, painting and architecture and created a world where masterpieces fetch millions today.
Without the money and patronage of the Medici we might never have heard of artists such as Donatello, Michelangelo or Botticelli, and Graham-Dixon examines how a family of shadowy, corrupt businessmen, driven by greed and ambition, became the financial engine behind the Italian Renaissance."
Panorama: I'll Die When I Choose - "Margo MacDonald, the firebrand, independent politician, is one of Scotland's most popular public figures. But she also has Parkinson's Disease and, earlier this year, she spoke openly of her desire to choose the moment of her death.
Now, in this deeply personal film, she uncovers the truth about assisted dying, meeting those with illnesses like hers who are desperate to die, and exploring how British law could be changed to allow them to choose when they can.
And she investigates the underground suicide movement in the UK, uncovering shocking evidence of "suicide hoods", and powerful veterinary drugs being used illegally.
In a moving interview, her life-long friend and leader of Scotland's Catholics, Cardinal Keith O'Brien, tries to persuade Margo against taking her own life."
Royal Institution Christmas Lectures 2006: Predictability - http://www.rigb.org/christmaslectures06/pdfs/lecture5_transcript.pdf
"Professor Marcus du Sautoy considers the question of predictability. He illustrates how mathematics can show what will happen next in the fields of weather forecasting and population growth, and demonstrates that not everything is quite so predictable."
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