Royal Institution Christmas Lectures

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  • Premiered: Dec 1966
  • Episodes: 289
  • Followers: 5
  • Running
  • BBC Two
  • Daily at 20
  • Documentary

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Season 2001
2001x1
What Is Life?
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 26, 2001
Explores the marvellous phenomenon of life from its origins to the present day.
2001x2
How Do I Grow?
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Air date
Dec 27, 2001
Explores the miracle of life - how a body grows from a single cell into a body made up of one hundred million million cells.
2001x3
Who Am I?
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Air date
Dec 28, 2001
Explores the passage of human evolution to discover how humans became the unique creatures they are today.
2001x4
Can We Fix It?
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Air date
Dec 29, 2001
Explores what can go wrong with human genes and how we are slowly learning how to fix them
2001x5 Season finale
The Future of Life?
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 30, 2001
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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