Past Programs
Science and Technology - 2007
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Mormonism's Lost Tribes Read Transcript
30/12/2007
The Book of Mormon spells out the origins of Mormonism, based on the belief that the Lost Tribes of Israel sailed to the American continent and became identified by European explorers as the American Indians. Using the latest DNA findings Simon Southerton questions this belief.
Galileo Read Transcript
21/10/2007
In 1632 the greatest scientist of his time, Galileo Galilei, was forced by the Roman Catholic church to recant his doctrine that the Earth revolved around the Sun. But according to Galileo's biographer, Michael White, there was much more at stake than astronomical theories.
The Astrolabe in Medieval Islam Read Transcript
16/09/2007
The astrolabe was the most accurate high-tech equipment in the Muslim world during the medieval period. Its use for navigation is well known, but it had many important domestic applications, including casting horoscopes and finding the direction of Mecca.
Henrietta and Hubble Read Transcript
01/07/2007
Henrietta Leavitt, the daughter of an American Congregationalist minister, identified the variable luminosity of stars which enabled astronomer Edwin Hubble to make his great discovery of other galaxies.
Mormonism's Lost Tribes Read Transcript
25/03/2007
The Book of Mormon spells out the origins of Mormonism, based on the belief that the Lost Tribes of Israel sailed to the American continent and became identified by European explorers as the American Indians. Using the latest DNA findings Simon Southerton questions this belief.
