Equinox

Docu-drama of what the media might be like by the year 2012. EQUINOX's first drama, set in the future, focuses on the facts behind the suspicious death of media mogul, Liam Keller, whose software applications have had a huge impact upon broadcast TV, earning him enemies around the world. In the late 1990s, Keller had devised `Gambit', a virus which enabled all technologies (the internet, television broadcasting, e-mail) to converge - to communicate with one another. Found floating in the Thames, a television current affairs programme sets out to explore how Keller might have met his death. Through Keller's life story this drama explores the consequences of future technology, reflecting on what might happen to our present day media over the next few years. The programme also includes interviews with leading futurologists, including British Telecom's Director of Research Peter Cochrane.

The programme investigates some of the scientific questions surrounding the mysterious force of gravity. This includes the difficulties involved in making a precise measurement of the gravitational constant and how new cosmological observations can lead to changes in scientific ideas about the forces acting in the Universe.

Exploring the use of sophisticated techniques of forensic science tried and tested in suburban Britain in the hunt for the body of a Royal Marine who disappeared in the Falkland Islands in August 1980.

An epidemiologist and a medical researcher travel from Egypt to Canada and across America in search of a scientific explanation of the Ten Plagues which, the Bible tells us, devastated Egypt some 4,000 years ago.

An assessment of a controversial new theory that dogs may have had a profound influence on the evolutionary success of Homo sapiens, and helped to domesticate their human owners.

Is it a boat? Is it a plane? The Ekranoplan is the brainchild of a Russian scientist who also invented the modern hydrofoil, and it may represent the future of intercontinental travel.