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Elizabeth Ist’s most effective weapon was her spy network. But when her own doctor is accused of conspiring to kill her, whom should she believe? Dr. Rodrigo Lopez was not only the Queen’s doctor, a Jew...
For the last 550 years, it has been believed the Johannes Gutenberg was the inventor of movable type. This programme travels to Gutenberg’s hometown of Maintz in Germany to discover how Gutenberg lived and...
Lightning strikes 1,000 people a year and kills thirty per cent of them, with men are four times more likely to be hit than women. Adam Hart-Davis look at how buildings, vehicles and people can be protected...
The programme examines the role of fungi, especially mycorrhizal fungi, in sustaining the growth of forests. It explores the evidence that networks of ectomycorrhizal fungi may link tree with tree with...
A support video for the course, covering the following topics: Band 1: Investigating Life on a Small Scale - examines some of the special problems encountered by very small, i.e. unicellular, organisms,...
In 1611, Thomas Coryat published ‘Observations of Venice’, a travel guide which referred to the city as ‘the most glorious and heavenly view upon the water that ever any mortal eye beheld’. This view...
While leeches, bleeding and amputation with opium were commonplace practices in Renaissance medicine, it also had a surprisingly enlightened side. The Santa Maria Nuova hospital in Florence offered free...
A programme designed for teaching English for business purposes. Looks at market research and the launch of a new product. It begins by looking at how large-scale market research is conducted in the...
A programme designed for teaching English for business purposes. Looks at recruitment procedures. In particular it looks at how Voluntary Services Overseas (VSO), a charitable organisation based in the UK,...
Pete Goss’s ‘Team Philips’ was a catamaran built to an ultra-radical, high-tech design, and was supposed to be the fastest ever round-the-world yacht. This programme tells the story of the design, the...
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