Royal Institution Christmas Lectures

  • Premiered: Dec 1966
  • Episodes: 286
  • Followers: 4
  • Running
  • BBC Two
  • Daily at 20
  • Documentary

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Season 1995
1995x1
Planet Earth, On the Edge of the World
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 27, 1995
The first of five daily science lectures which are intended to be of particular interest to children. Dr James Jackson, a geologist from Cambridge University, looks for clues in what .. show full overview
1995x2
Planet Earth, Secrets of the Deep
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Air date
Dec 28, 1995
Dr James Jackson reveals that the key to understanding how the Earth moves lies not above the sea but deep in the oceans.
1995x3
Planet Earth, Volcanoes-Melting the Earth
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Air date
Dec 29, 1995
Dr James Jackson investigates how solid rock is turned to molten lava and explains how volcanoes are a planet's way of keeping cool. The lectures continue tomorrow and Sunday.
1995x4
Planet Earth, The Puzzle of the Continents
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Air date
Dec 30, 1995
Dr James Jackson draws on evidence from sunken cities and sea shells found high in mountain ranges to explain what happens when continents stretch and collide.
1995x5 Season finale
Planet Earth, Waterworld
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Air date
Dec 31, 1995
In his final lecture, Dr James Jackson describes how water has affected the history of Earth and looks at the moon, Venus and Mars to imagine what life would be like without it.

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