Pain, Pus and Poison: The Search for Modern Medicines

Sex Map of Britain

December 2024 •English

Meeting people for whom sex, sexuality and having children is less than straightforward.

Dr Alice Roberts: Don't Die Young

December 2024 •English

Health documentary series with anatomist Dr Alice Roberts

Food Detectives

December 2024 •English

Scientist Prof Alice Roberts, chef Tom Kerridge and journalist Sean Fletcher are keen to improve your cooking, your health and your bank balance by dishing up the plain facts about our food.

The Viral Delusion

December 2024 •English

n 2019, the virologists took center stage, and for the first time on film, their methods, miscues and tragedy they have wrought are put under the spotlight, revealing the extraordinary leaps of fantasy buried in their methodology, the contradictions quietly acknowledged in their papers, their desperate effort to change language to justify their findings, the obvious incongruence of their conclusions and the extraordinary stakes for our entire society in whether we continue to blindly follow their lead into a full-scale war against nature itself.

The Truth About Food

December 2024 •English

Series examining how what we eat can change our lives.

Junior Paramedics

December 2024 •English

Series following the lives of nine student paramedics as they go on their first ever placement with the East Midlands Ambulance Service.

What's the Right Diet for You? A Horizon Special

December 2024 •English

This ground-breaking three-part series takes 75 dieters and employs the latest science to fashion a diet tailor-made to counteract the main reason they put on weight.

From Handsaw to Scalpel

December 2024 •French

A fascinating insight into the evolution of modern medicine as we explore the medical treatments for certain issues from past to present, seeing just how much we have learned through trial and error. The series is also a chance to see how medical advancements are currently used to treat problems in the fields of oncology, ophthalmology, dentistry, neurology, obstetrics and orthopaedics, and to see what the future may hold.

The Twinstitute

December 2024 •English

Doctors Chris and Xand van Tulleken put competing health theories to the test with the help of 30 other pairs of identical twins.

Toxique

December 2024 •French

Fatal Experiments: The Downfall of a Supersurgeon

December 2024 •Swedish

The series investigates Paolo Macchiarini’s claims to have invented a ground-breaking method to create new organs. His method using plastic tracheas sown with stemcells has been operated on patients in the US, Russia, Sweden and the UK. So far, unfortunately, the track record of his plastic organs is not very good. Almost all patients are dead. And several of his former surgeon colleagues in Sweden claim that not only does the method not work, but that his scientific claim to fame is based on falsified and misrepresented data. Some even claim that his patients have been used as human guinea-pigs.

The Body in Question

December 2024 •English

The Body in Question is a landmark British medical documentary series of 13 shows made for the BBC. It was a groundbreaking show, being the first to ever televise an autopsy (in the final show on 29 Jan 1979). Dr Jonathan Miller considers the functioning of the body as a subject of private experience. He explores our attitudes towards our bodies, our ignorance of them, and our inability to read our body's signals. The first episode starts with vox populi asking where various organs in the body are located. By the final episode we are left in no doubt. Taking as his starting point the experience of pain, Dr Miller analyses the elaborate social process of "falling ill", considers the physical foundations of "disease" and looks at the types of individuals humankind has historically attributed with the power of healing. The series was nominated for two 1979 BAFTAs: Best Factual Television Series and Most Original Programme/Series.

Victorian Pharmacy

December 2024 •English

Victorian Pharmacy is a historical documentary TV series in four parts, first shown on BBC Two in July 2010. It was made for the BBC by independent production company Lion Television. It was filmed at Blists Hill Victorian Town in Shropshire. It is a historical documentary that looks at life in the 19th Century and how people attempted to cure common ailments. Since some of the ingredients of Victorian remedies are now either illegal or known to be dangerous, Nick Barber often uses his modern pharmaceutical knowledge to produce similar products without those ingredients. The other main presenters are Tom Quick, a PhD student, and Ruth Goodman, a domestic historian who also appeared in Tales from the Green Valley, Victorian Farm and Edwardian Farm.

Toc Toc Docteur

December 2024 •French

Celebrity Fit Club UK

December 2024 •English

Celebrity Fit Club is a reality television series that follows eight overweight celebrities as they try to lose weight for charity. Split into two competing teams of four, each week teams are given different physical challenges, and weighed to see if they reached their target weights. They are monitored and supervised by a team that includes a nutritionist, a psychologist, and a physical trainer, the latter of which is former U.S. Marine Harvey Walden IV.

Britain's Fat Fight with Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

December 2024 •English

With Britain becoming the most obese country in western Europe, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall is on a mission, asking food producers, restaurants and the government to confront the crisis.

Body Invaders

December 2024 •English

Body Atlas

December 2024 •English

Explore the mysterious regions inside the human body. See how vital organs interconnect to make human life possible. Learn how skeletons fit together. Witness the lightness and strength of bone, how muscles work as levers, what it takes to achieve the "perfect" body. See how the heart functions, and learn the roles of white and red blood cells. Discover the complex systems controlling breathing, digestion, glandular changes, and hearing.

La macchina meravigliosa

December 2024 •Italian

A long journey in 8 episodes to discover the human body, with Piero Angela who closely observes our organism, focusing each time on a theme: the eye, the ear, taste and smell, the stomach and the intestine, liver, bones, lungs and heart. How does our "wonder machine" work? To make each explanation direct and clear, the program uses films, animations and photographs developed with the scanning electron microscope.

Michael Mosley's Science of You

December 2024 •English

Journalist, Physician, Producer, TV Presenter – Michael Mosley is a multi-talented communicator of bold and original ideas. With insight, intelligence and passion, the creator of the landmark series Inside the Human Body takes you on a fascinating journey through the mysterious worlds of biology and medicine.