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In this programme, George McGavin joins a team of specialist anatomists in the dissection room to unpick the secrets of human hands and feet. Starting with the skin, the series moves down through each...
This programme marks the two hundredth anniversary of the publication of homeopathy’s founding text ‘Samuel Hahnemann’s Organon of Rational Medicine’. It recognises that homeopathy remains deeply...
Dr Michael Mosley tells the story of how the world’s most useful and valuable drugs were created. The most poisonous toxin known to man, Botulinum, is now used as an anti-wrinkle drug called Botox. Yet it...
Video recording of a lecture held on 7 March 2012 in the series ‘The Lost Hospitals of London’ organised by Gresham College. (53 minutes) In 1739, Captain Thomas Coram was dismayed at the sight of...
This short film threads together the history of cardiac arrest treatment with the paradoxical discovery that stopping the heart can make it stronger. Shows how the resurrection of dead dogs in Russia in the...
A series of five 50-minute programmes on the history of surgery, presented by Dr Michael Mosley. He introduces audiences to the breathtaking, heroic and at times comically entertaining story of how surgeons...
Film dramatisation by Dennis Potter of the life of eighteenth century Viennese physician, Franz Anton Mesmer, who used unorthodox healing practices based on his theory of ‘animal magnetism’. After...
This film looks at the origins of homeopathy and how it works, if indeed it does. It was developed 200 years ago by Samuel Hahneman, a German physician and chemist, who was a contemporary of Mozart. He...
Documentary series about 20th century innovations. Separate programmes cover worldwide travel and communications, space exploration, how warfare drives ingenuity, emergence of the teenager, and urbanisation.
A compilation of three programmes exploring ‘The Romantics’. FROM REVOLUTION TO NATURE - This film traces the ‘birth’ of the individual in modern society. It begins with Jean Jacques Rousseau who...
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