A Land for All Reasons
Horizon - 1978
In this episode, Horizon examines the need for an objective approach to land management in Britain.
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Living Machines
Horizon investigates how biologists and engineers are pooling their ideas to understand how nature's machines work.
A Land for All Reasons
In this episode, Horizon examines the need for an objective approach to land management in Britain.
I Don't Want to Be a Burden
Horizon explores community and residential services available to the elderly in South Hampton, England.
Zero G
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The Message in the Rocks
Develops the theory that four and a half thousand million years ago the earth was formed thanks to the explosion of a huge star which provided the rocks, the minerals and the radioactivity from which life developed. These theories are based partly on analysis of a meteorite which dropped near a village in Mexico at the beginning of the seventies.
The Eddystone Lights
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The New Breadline
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Now the Chips Are Down
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Explosions in the Mind
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One Small Step
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The Tsetse Trap
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The Red Deer of Rhum
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