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Look Around You : Season 1
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Air date: 10 Oct '02 - 9 episodesIn the first series of Look Around You, the episodes satirise and pay homage to late 1970s and early 1980s educational films and school programmes such as ITV's "Experiment" series and BBC's "For Schools and Colleges", which were re-run for many years after they were made. A different scientific subject is covered in each episode.
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List of Episodes (9)
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Look Around You (2002)
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0. Calcium
This "module" was the Pilot Episode of this series.
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Look Around You (2002)
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1. Maths
10 Oct '02Maths can help us in our daily lives - for example, in cooking pasta, in calculating the correct moment for starting a conversation, or (if you can fly) in working out where to land. Queen Elizabeth III and Queen Elizabeth IV are going to a party given by Queen Elizabeth V. QE3 has forty dresses to choose from, QE4 has four thousand, and QE5 has only one dress, but it can take the form of many dresses. Then, during the night, QE3's servant steals the plans for QE4's party dress and, working til
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2. Water
17 Oct '02In this episode we learn about the amazing igloo-building skills of ants and the surprising ability of water to boil eggs.
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3. Germs
24 Oct '02You need to know something about Germs. You really do. And Professor Miles can help you...
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4. Ghosts
31 Oct '02Why can't ghosts whistle? Well, let's hear from a ghost.
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5. Sulphur
07 Nov '02Sulphur is revealed, and the story is not really about brimstone.
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6. Music
21 Nov '02A brief investigation of the world of music, from its Neolithic beginnings...
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7. Iron
04 Dec '02Iron (Fe) is not quite all it's cut up to be... The use of magnets is strictly prohibited during this episode.
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8. The Brain
11 Dec '02The team investigates the human brain and meets a man who is addicted to Electronic Brain Enhancements. What happens if you probe the brobe? How many nuts are there in a jar? And what are brain flakes? All of these questions are addressed, if not answered.
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