BUFVC Search
Current Search
Previous Searches
Canadian scientist Dr Graeme Mather, who work with cloud seeding in South Africa to prove that clouds could be made to rain by means of human intervention, believed that after 30 years he learned how to end...
Recounts how thalidomide, a drug that caused severe disabilities in thousands of children world-wide, is being reintroduced, with encouraging results, to treat conditions linked to arthritis, leprosy, skin...
Profiles Dr Polly Matzinger and her idea of the ‘danger model’ in biology, which has led to a man’s cancer being injected with bacteria and a mouse living with a rat’s heart. Matzinger believes that...
2: The mystery of what formed the Antarctic continent has obsessed explorers since Shackleton and Scott. Using evidence from the tiny amount of rock exposed above the ice, geologists have come up with a...
Looks at the evidence discovered in 1979 of an extra-terrestrial impact that obliterated the dinosaurs and much other life. After some 12 years of detective work, scientists have discovered the 200km-wide...
Tells how Dolly the sheep, the first cloned copy an adult mammal, came to be, looking at the experiments on cloning that went on before, and the scientific possibilities opened up by this development. Looks...
Looks at new approaches to weight loss, as one in seven people in Britain are reputed be clinically obese. Follows a women who underwent stomach-stapling surgery and looks at no-calorie fat (Olestra) and a...
In a unique interview shown for the first time, Sir Frank Whittle tells the story of his small band of engineers who, frustrated at every official turn, pursued the development of the jet engine. Tells how...
Follows three teams on three continents as they compete to be the first to circumnavigate the earth non-stop by balloon. Richard Branson’s balloon nearly crashes in the Sahara, a Swiss-Belgian balloon...
An account of the development of the Internet looking at key stages of its development, from its beginnings as the ARPA military information system. Includes interviews with Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the...
You are currently searching in Find DVD. Search all the BUFVC's collections for '"John Lynch"' in All fields.
Learning on Screen