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• Hurricane Rash

  Mon, 21 May 12

  Duration:
  19 mins

  Kevin Fong looks at the surprising and heroic origins of modern day plastic and reconstructive surgery, born not in the operating rooms of Hollywood, but in the great air-battles of World War II.

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• Science of Morality

  Mon, 14 May 12

  Duration:
  18 mins

  How fixed are our moral beliefs? Carinne Piekema investigates how advances in psychology and neuroscience are starting to shed light on our moral choices.

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• 1000 Days - A Legacy of Life

  Mon, 7 May 12

  Duration:
  18 mins

  Mark Porter explores the new idea that your health as an adult is partly determined by what happens to you in the womb.

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• Scott's Legacy: Programme 3 - Mars

  Mon, 30 Apr 12

  Duration:
  18 mins

  One hundred years ago, the first humans reached the South Pole of this planet. More than 40 years ago, man first walked on the moon. When will our species first set foot to explore the planet Mars? Kevin Fong seeks a likely launch date, and asks who will get us there and why we really need to explore the Red Planet. He talks to Elon Musk, founder of the rocket company SpaceX. The commercial space pioneer claims that he has worked out to take humans to Mars for $500,000 per passenger with a new kind of reusable spacecraft.

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• Scott's Legacy: Programme 2 - Moon

  Mon, 23 Apr 12

  Duration:
  19 mins

  100 years ago, Scott reached the South Pole. 50 years later, the first geologist briefly walked on the Moon. Kevin Fong asks if why we might want to return to the lunar surface and what will get us. He talks to that first lunar geologist of Apollo 17, Harrison Schmitt and NASA’s Chief Administrator Charles Bolden, among others.

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• Scott's Legacy: Programme 1 - Antarctica

  Mon, 16 Apr 12

  Duration:
  18 mins

  One hundred years ago, Robert Scott's bid to lead the first expedition to reach the South Pole may have ended in tragic failure but Kevin Fong argues the scientific discoveries were much more important than who won the polar race.

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• Titanic - In Her Own Words 09 Apr 12

  Mon, 9 Apr 12

  Duration:
  42 mins

  To mark the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, the BBC’s Sean Coughlan narrates one of the most authentic versions of events in existence. Using voice synthesis to re-create the strange, twitter-like, mechanical brevity of the original Morse code, this programme brings to life the tragedy through the ears of the wireless operators in the area that night.

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• Global Body 4 of 4 - Sydney 02 Apr 12

  Mon, 2 Apr 12

  Duration:
  27 mins

  In the last of the Global Body series, Lynne Malcolm is joined by a panel of experts to discuss the future of the health of the human body.

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• Global Body 3 of 4 - Los Angeles 26 Mar 12

  Mon, 26 Mar 12

  Duration:
  27 mins

  In Global Body, Lynne Malcolm discovers if the Hollywood dream is really true for the health of millions of LA immigrants.

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• Global Body 2 of 4 - Manila 19 Mar 12

  Mon, 19 Mar 12

  Duration:
  27 mins

  Global Body goes to Manila to look at the health consequences of moving from the countryside to the city.

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