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Fukushima Is Nuclear Power Safe

   2011    Technology
Professor Jim Al-Khalili sets out to discover whether nuclear power is safe. He begins in Japan, at the former Fukushima nuclear plant, where he meets some of the tens of thousands of people who have been evacuated from the exclusion zone. He travels to an abandoned village just outside the zone to witness a nuclear clean-up operation. Jim dr ...aws on the latest scientific findings from Japan and from the previous explosion at Chernobyl to understand how dangerous the release of radiation is likely to be and what that means for our trust in nuclear power.   Show More

Who is in Control

   2015    Medicine
‘Who Is in Control?’ explores the great deception that greets us each morning when we awake: it feels as though we are in conscious control of our lives but the truth is that we are not. Instead almost every action, every decision, every belief that we hold is driven by parts of the brain that we have no access to. ...   Show More
Series: The Brain with David Eagleman
Life in the Undergrowth

Life in the Undergrowth

2005  Nature
Top Gear

Top Gear

2012  Technology
Dirty Money

Dirty Money

2018  Culture
Dynamic Genomes Series

Dynamic Genomes Series

2019  Medicine
Tiger

Tiger

2020  History
Minimalism

Minimalism

2015  Culture