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Season 47 Episode 3: What Happened Before the Big Bang?

59 SeasonsOct 27, 2009TV-PG1h7.8

Horizon follows the emotional journey of three young people with currently untreatable conditions to see if, within their lifetime, they can be cured. Sophie Morgan is determined not to spend the rest of her life in a wheelchair. She is tempted by the online claims of unregulated private clinics promising a cure using stem cells. Anthony Bath was just 20 when his right leg was amputated after a botched pinning procedure. In Finland, Anthony witnesses one of the world's first operations i...

Season 47 Episodes:

Episode 1 Back from the Dead

1. Back from the Dead

Aired: Oct 13, 2009

Alcohol is by far the most widely used drug - and a dangerous one at that. So...

Episode 4 Is Seeing Believing?

4. Is Seeing Believing?

Aired: Nov 3, 2009

Black holes are one of the most destructive forces in the universe, capable o...

Episode 8 What Is One Degree?

8. What Is One Degree?

Aired: Jan 13, 2010

Just months ago, the world stood in fear of an emerging new disease that thre...

Episode 9 What is Reality?

9. What is Reality?

Aired: Jan 20, 2010

Over a person's lifetime they are likely to be prescribed more than 14,000 pi...

Episode 10 Science Under Attack

10. Science Under Attack

Aired: Feb 3, 2010

Nobel Prize winner Sir Paul Nurse examines why science appears to be under at...

Info about Horizon

Current Status: Returning Series

Network: BBC Two

Production Country: United Kingdom

Genres:Documentary