Mapping It out

Synopsis: A series of six programmes in which five scientists are marooned, with very basic equipment, on the Caribbean island of Carriacou, just north of Granada, where they are challenged to use their scientific knowledge as survival skills. The participants are Mike Bullivant (chemist), Kathy Sykes and Jonathan Hare (physicists), Mike Leahy (virologist) and Ellen McCallie (ethnobotanist).

In this first programme they are given just three days in which to develop the means of recording the sounds and sights of their tropical island. To make an accurate scale map, the scientists have first to make instruments including a metre stick, protractor and even a telescope before ‘measuring’ the island and checking on local rock formations and the environment. They must make paper and ink from local, natural ingredients - which includes fashioning a quill pen from a bird’s feather. Their efforts are compared with the ‘real’ map.
Sound recording involves producing a mechanical design similar to Edison’s original recording device and making a loud noise to record.
Series: Rough Science, Series 2, Course Xs003
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Year of release: 2002
Year of production: 2001
Notes: Broadcast on BBC2 on 7/5/02
Subjects: Science
Keywords: applied science; cartography; paper-making; sound recordings

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