Showing posts with label Presenter: Brian Cox. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Presenter: Brian Cox. Show all posts

Friday, May 9, 2014

* Addicted to Pleasure (2012)

Revealing the rich and controversial past of sugar, alcohol, tobacco and opium, Hollywood actor Brian Cox embarks on a thought-provoking journey to uncover how the commercial exploitation of these products hooked the rest of the world on an appetite for a good time.

Episode 1:
Sugar

Episode 2:
Opium

Episode 3:
Tobacco

Episode 4:
Whisky

Wednesday, April 30, 2014

* Can We Make a Star on Earth? (2009)

Professor Brian Cox takes a global journey in search of the energy source of the future. Called nuclear fusion, it is the process that fuels the sun and every other star in the universe. Yet despite over five decades of effort, scientists have been unable to get even a single watt of fusion electricity onto the grid.

Brian returns to Horizon to find out why. Granted extraordinary access to the biggest and most ambitious fusion experiments on the planet, Brian travels to the USA to see a high security fusion bomb testing facility in action and is given a tour of the world's most powerful laser. In South Korea, he clambers inside the reaction chamber of K-Star, the world's first super-cooled, super-conducting fusion reactor where the fate of future fusion research will be decided.