Horizon

Season 2008

Danny Wallace really wants a robot. He wants it to walk like him and talk like him. It's what scientists have been promising us for generations but it's a promise so far unfulfilled. Danny circumnavigates the globe searching for robot nirvana and trying t

Horizon explores how the stories of John and Genevieve are helping scientists to understand the brain.

A cadaver can be sold for as much as $250,000 to medical science, creating an industry.

For fifty years, the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence has been scanning the galaxy for a message from an alien civilisation. So far to no avail, but a recent breakthrough suggests they may one day succeed. Horizon joins the planet hunters who've

The quest to live longer has been one of humanity's oldest dreams, but while scientists have been searching, a few isolated communities have stumbled across the answer.

We are bad at making decisions. According to science, our decisions are based on oversimplification, laziness and prejudice. And that's assuming that we haven't already been hijacked by our surroundings or led astray by our subconscious!

Horizon hits the drugs debate head-on as it examines the latest scientific evidence behind 20 of the country's most widely used drugs. A team of leading scientists has spent two years analysing the effects of these drugs and devising a scientifically rigo

Particle physicist and ex D:Ream keyboard player Dr Brian Cox wants to know why the Universe is built the way it is. He believes the answers lie in the force of gravity. But Newton thought gravity was powered by God, and even Einstein failed to completely

Horizon investigates the controversial science of sensory deprivation. Six ordinary people are taken to a nuclear bunker and subjected to a world without stimulation. Three subjects are left alone in dark, sound proofed rooms, while the other three are gi

Former Conservative MP, Michael Portillo pushes his body to the brink of death in an investigation into the science of execution. As the American Supreme Court examines whether the lethal injection is causing prisoners to die in unnecessary pain Michael