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Royal Institution Christmas Lectures: Season 2001

2001: The Secrets of Life 2001

  • 2001-12-26T20:00:00Z on BBC Two
  • 1h
  • 5h (5 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Documentary
The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures have been held in London annually since 1825. They serve as a forum for presenting complex scientific issues to a general audience in an informative and entertaining manner. In the mid 1820s Michael Faraday, a former Director of the Royal Institution, initiated the first Christmas Lecture series at a time when organised education for young people was scarce. He presented a total of 19 series, establishing an exciting new venture of teaching science to young people that was eventually copied by other institutions internationally.

5 episodes

Season Premiere

2001-12-26T20:00:00Z

2001x01 The Secrets of Life: What Is Life?

Season Premiere

2001x01 The Secrets of Life: What Is Life?

  • 2001-12-26T20:00:00Z1h

Explores the marvellous phenomenon of life from its origins to the present day.

Explores the miracle of life - how a body grows from a single cell into a body made up of one hundred million million cells.

Explores the passage of human evolution to discover how humans became the unique creatures they are today.

Explores what can go wrong with human genes and how we are slowly learning how to fix them

The series of lectures concludes with an odyssey into the not too distant future, to explore what our growing power to control life will mean for our species and for human individuals.

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