DNA WEEK
Monday 26 April - Friday 30 April 2004
April 2003 marked the 50th anniversary of the publication of the scientific journal Nature in which three men - James Watson, Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins - announced the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA.
BBC Four celebrated this moment with a week of programmes on the people behind the discovery and the far ranging implications of what they found - the ones listed below are repeated in April 2004.
RICHARD DAWKINS: PROFILE Wednesday 28 April 2004; rpt Saturday 1 May (Fri night) Profile of the pioneering evolutionary biologist and author of the Selfish Gene.
DOUBLE
HELIX: THE DNA YEARS Ep 1: Wednesday 28 April 2004; Ep 2: Thursday 29 April The 50-year-old quest to discover the secret of human nature hidden in our DNA.
JOHN SULSTON: ONE MAN AND HIS WORM Tuesday 27 April 2004; rpt Saturday 1 May (Fri night)
The "nerd turned hippie" whose Nobel Prize-winning research helped map the human genome.
SUPERFLY Monday 26 April 2004
Award-winning documentary that takes a fly's-eye view of 100 years of genetics.
DNA'S DARK LADY Tuesday 27 April 2004
New documentary on the forgotten person in the DNA story, Crick and Watson's collaborator Rosalind Franklin.
BBC NEWS: DNA 50
Key stories, DNA timeline and a graphical guide
AUDIO INTERVIEWS From the BBC Archive
Hear DNA pioneers Francis Crick and James Watson
BBC Links
Gene Stories
Extensive site from bbc.co.uk/science
