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- David Hahn in the mid-nineties was a teenage boy scout working towards his merit badges. One badge in particular, the Atomic Energy Merit Badge, caught his imagination when it required him to make a model of a nuclear reactor out of cotton buds etc. David went further and sought out household sources of the materials he would need to make his reactor. Here he talks us through what he did and the surprising results he got.
- On the road with India's anti-superstition campaigners confronting fraudulent gurus and quacks. The film reveals the trickery behind pseudo-magical phenomena such as levitation, materialization and walking on fire and questions the credibility of leading "god men" such as Satya Sai Baba.
- Grandpa Chatterji is a comedy drama about a second generation Indian family living in the UK. Neetu and her brother Sanjay have a very strict and conventional grandfather - Grandpa Leicester - who makes their lives a misery by insisting on good manners, formal clothes and horrible food. But when their mother's father - Grandpa Chatterji - flies over from India to stay with them, their ideas about grandfathers are radically challenged. Grandpa Chatterji is eccentric, mystical and mad about cooking: he also appears to have magical powers.
- State-of-the-art robots talk, dance, fight and play football with their designers, the world's leading cyber-scientists. So when are they going to take over?
- How great scientists - Darwin, Faraday, Hubble, Mendel, Mendeleev - changed the world with their revolutionary insights.
- Mike the Midwife is a hapless male who has strayed into a world run by women. How did such an unreconstructed bloke ever manage to become a health care professional?
- Space is becoming a danger zone as old rockets and satellites orbiting around Earth at ten of thousands of miles an hour disintegrate, explode and crash into each other. Will the vast mass of accumulating debris turn our planet into a prison?
- On 13th March, 1989, a sun storm wreaked havoc in Canada, causing widespread power cuts across Quebec, with many people left in darkness for days. How are these storms caused? Can we do anything to prevent them?