Season 1

1. What Is Out There?

How we came to understand our planet was not at the centre of everything in the cosmos.

2010-04-27 • 60 min

2. What Is the World Made Of?

How atomic theories and concepts of quantum physics underpin modern technology.

2010-05-04 • 60 min

3. How Did We Get Here?

Michael Mosley tells how scientists came to explain the diversity of life on earth.

2010-05-11 • 60 min

4. Can We Have Unlimited Power?

The story of how power has been harnessed from wind, steam and from inside the atom.

2010-05-18 • 60 min

5. What Is the Secet of Life?

The story of how the secret of life has been examined through the prism of the human body.

2010-05-25 • 60 min

6. Who Are We?

The sciences of brain anatomy and psychology have offered different visions of who we are.

2010-06-01 • 60 min