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    E01 Sons of Cain

    Jan 17, 1967 · 1h

    Horizon probes into whether aggressiveness is our birthright and can society live without violence?

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    E02 When Is a Body Dead? / How to Win Friends and Influence People

    Jan 31, 1967 · 1h

    Medical advances have made it possible for 'life' to be maintained in an unconscious patient who has irrevocable brain damage and who might also be dependent on artificial aids to circulation and respiration. Is it now meaningless to define 'death' as the cessation of a heart beat? Why do so many people have difficulty In communicating, or in simply getting-on with other people? Psychologists have now begun to analyse aspects of social behaviour in a way which they believe will lead to more pleasant and more effective human relationships.

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    E03 How Best to Make a Man / How Best to Make a Scientist

    Feb 14, 1967 · 1h

    In this episode, Horizon looks at a new school of mathematics and physics near Novosibirsk in Siberia, Russia. This school uses a competition held for Russian school children to qualify new students.

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    E04 Dynamo - The Life of Michael Faraday

    Feb 28, 1967 · 1h

    Horizon profiles the life of the greatest physical scientist: Michael Faraday. Crucial events of his scientific career in science are reconstructed.

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    E05 Migraine

    Mar 14, 1967 · 1h

    Horizon looks at some research recently carried out into the migraine headache and the means to provide treatment for it.

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    E06 How Safe Is Surgery?

    Mar 28, 1967 · 1h

    Horizon probes in the danger of germs and infection in the operating theater and the methods currently used to prevent contamination.

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    E07 Sleep and Dreams

    Apr 11, 1967 · 1h

    Joel, a healthy young American, is reduced to a restless neurotic state after being deprived of his dreams for three nights. Mr Bates, an eighty-four-year-old ex-milk man, has never dreamed in his life, or so he says until he is woken by scientists in the middle of a dream trip to New York.

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    E08 The Shape of War to Come

    Apr 25, 1967 · 1h

    Will the next major war be fought with biological and chemical weapons? What are the available weapons? What is the horror they can cause? Is there any moral justification for their use?

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    E09 Memory

    May 9, 1967 · 1h

    Horizon explores the part of the human brain devoted to memory.

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    E10 Masters of the Desert

    May 23, 1967 · 1h

    Horizon reports on the methods being used to irrigate the Negev Desert, making it fertile based on the methods of ancient civilizations.

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    E11 Cancer - The Search for the Virus

    Jun 6, 1967 · 1h

    In this the first of two programmes dealing with cancer, Horizon looks at the intensive search now going on to discover whether a virus is one of the causes of cancer in humans and at the implications of this search in the treatment for such killer diseases as leukemia.

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    E12 Cancer - The Smoker's Gamble

    Jun 20, 1967 · 1h

    Why is there doubt in so many people's minds about the relationship between lung cancer and smoking? Tonight's programme examines the latest scientific evidence in detail.

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    E13 Science and the Supernatural

    Jul 4, 1967 · 1h

    Horizon explores the work in the developmental field of Extra Sensory Perception (ESP).

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    E14 Hypnosis

    Jul 18, 1967 · 1h

    Horizon explores the misconceptions that people have about what hypnosis is and looks at the medical implications of what it can do.

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    E15 The War of the Boffins

    Sep 12, 1967 · 1h

    During the human struggles between the British and German air forces ... another conflict was going on step by step, month by month. This was a secret war whose battles were lost or won unknown to the public: and only with difficulty is it comprehended even now by those outside the smalt high scientific circles concerned.

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    E17 Aspects of Alcohol

    Sep 26, 1967 · 1h

    Horizon looks at a Scottish chemist's unusual application for whisky: a measure of radioactive carbon 14 used for determining how old an object is.

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    E18 Lords of the Sea

    Oct 10, 1967 · 1h

    Horizon looks into how man is learning to survive in the oceans.

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    E19 Will Art Last?

    Oct 24, 1967 · 1h

    In this episode, Horizon reports on new materials that are being used as art media by gaining inspiration from factory and industrial processes.

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    E20 Air Safety: The Unknown Factor

    Nov 17, 1967 · 1h

    Horizon investigates air navigation and flight safety.

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    E21 The Life and Death of the Pine Processionary

    Nov 21, 1967 · 1h

    Horizon reports on the problem of exterminating the pine processionary caterpillars infestation from the pine forests of Provence, Canada.

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    E22 Koestler on Creativity

    Dec 5, 1967 · 1h

    Arthur Koestler talks about the psychological theories of creativity and the role of the mind in science and art.

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    E23 The World of Ted Serios

    Dec 12, 1967 · 1h

    Horizon looks into the life of Ted Serios who claims to have psychic powers and to be able to project images onto film using only his thoughts.

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    E24 Professor in Toyland

    Dec 24, 1967 · 1h

    Prof. J. Sumner-Miller asks some questions for enquiring minds on walking, singing, swimming, and flying toys.

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