Since the beginning of time, human beings all over the world have made use of plants for healing purposes. These three documentaries, that can be show separately, tell the story of medicinal plants.

This programme explores the rich heritage of knowledge in both southern and northern countries in the field of traditional medicine and healing plants.

A new way of working with Third World countries. New forms of healing and inventories of local plant-based medicines are opening up a huge market for producer countries...

Spiralling health costs and the limitations of the treatments available, plant medicine will play a larger part in medicine in the future.

The history of AZT -the first anti-HIV drug- is the story of a fight against fate...

This ultimate object of desire...the Higgs boson.

An alarming documentary that investigates biology's latest discoveries, and the scope they offer in the area of sport.

Professor Marescaux and his team present the surgery of the future - techniques such as computer-assisted tele-surgery and virtual-reality simulations.