The Immune System

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Duration: 29 minutes

Dr Alice Roberts is put through a terrifying experience in the interests of testing how well her immune system will respond to threat. Only marginally less terrifying are the swabs taken by a microbiologist on a shared student house as Dr Alice is joined in her investigation into how the immune system works by a group of teenagers.

They want to find out why they're so often ill ...could their party lifestyle and laid back approach to housework be a problem? Using all the means at her disposal - dissections, drawings, paint ball guns and even cakes... Dr Alice explains the fantastic complexity of our immune system.

Last on

Tue 26 Aug 2008 02:15 BBC One only on Channel Islands, North East & Cumbria, Oxfordshire, South, West Midlands, Yorks & Lincs, Yorkshire

See all previous episodes for Dr Alice Roberts: Don't Die Young

Credits

Presenter
Dr Alice Roberts
Executive Producer
William Lyons
Unknown
Sarah Eglin
Unknown
Joanna Brame

Broadcasts

  • Thu 21 Aug 2008 20:30 BBC Two

  • Tue 26 Aug 2008 00:45 BBC One only on Cambridgeshire, East, East Midlands, London, North West, Northern Ireland, South East, South West, West

  • Tue 26 Aug 2008 01:45 BBC One only on Scotland

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