Thanks for the Memories: How Children Remember
Do our brains store experiences from our first few months of life? What happens to children who witness disturbing events before age two? How does being unwanted affect a baby? This program explores the personal significance of memory and examines t...
Bauhaus: the face of the 20th century
This stunning program looks at the development of the Bauhaus and at the key figures involved in it - including the founder Walter Gropius, his successor Mies van der Rohe, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, and Josef Albers. The program also sets the history of t...
The Chewing Gum War: A Case Study in Market Share
Cadbury Schweppes, Britain’s biggest confectioner, has ventured into the chewing gum market—taking on the might of Wrigley’s, the long-time global industry leader. This program examines Cadbury’s multipronged product launch and Wrigley’s c...
Order
In this profile of the psychology of leadership, a new prisoner joins the group in lockup, a master set of the guards' keys is stolen, and the two most forceful prisoners go head-to-head in a struggle for authority. Contains harsh, inflammatory, and...
The Truth about Fat
Surgeon Gabriel Weston wants to find out why we’re getting fatter—and she doesn’t believe that it’s simply a failure of self-control. From the power of hormones on our appetite to stomach surgery, genetics, and the impact of a pregnant woman...
India: A Dangerous Place to Be a Woman
In December 2012, a young medical student was brutally gang-raped on board a bus in Delhi. Horrified by the attack, 28-year-old British Asian Radha Bedi travels to India to uncover the reality of life for young women there. Radha has been to India b...
The future of life: searching for solutions
At the current rate of resource depletion, humankind stands to lose fully half of Earth's remaining species over the next 100 years. At this crucial point in world history, a choice must be made: will coming generations inhabit a healthy planet or, ...
Mary Shelley: the birth of Frankenstein
Her father was philosopher William Godwin. Her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, was feminism's founder. By pedigree and experience, Mary Shelley was uncannily equipped to write the gothic masterpiece, Frankenstein. This program offers a fresh exploratio...
Peter Singer: A Dangerous Mind
Dr. Peter Singer has been called the most influential living philosopher. He has also been called a monster. In this thought-provoking program, he faces his critics and discusses his ideas on euthanasia, abortion, and infanticide. The program follow...
The day we learned to think: the evolution of language and cognition
Was there a "big bang" in human language and cognitive development, or did speech and abstract thought evolve slowly - perhaps across 200,000 years or so? Surveying prehistoric burial sites and other archaeological finds, including what might be the...