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- 18th century British clock maker and carpenter John Harrison invents a marine chronometer that allows ships to calculate longitude while at sea, preventing numerous shipwrecks, some of them involving the British Navy.
- A reconstruction of the operating conditions and methods of Charing Cross Hospital in 1922. These are compared with modern (1972) practice in the new Charing Cross Hospital. Has an interesting take on the benefits and disbenefits of medical advances in the latter half of the 20th Century. Essentially the beginning of Brian Gibson's subsequent career in Drama.
- In the UK there is a trend for teenagers to drop science subjects at school, and to concentrate on the arts. This programme looks at why there is a trend towards technophobia despite exciting technological imagery and scientific ideas in films and television programmes.
- Documentary with dramatic reconstructions about the life of Joey Deacon, a man whose severe Cerebral Palsy led him to be incarcerated in an asylum until people learned to understand him.
- Sir David Attenborough reveals the findings of an investigation into what is happening to our oceans, and looks at whether it is it too late to save their remarkable biodiversity.