Episode guide
Look Around You: Series 1
8 episodes · premiered Oct 10, 2002
In the first series, the episodes satirise and pay homage to late 1970s and early 1980s educational films and school programmes such as ITV's "Experiment" series and BBC's "For Schools and Colleges". A different scientific subject is covered in each episode.
- Episode 1: Maths Oct 10, 2002 · 9m Maths can help us in our daily lives - for example, in cooking pasta, in calculating the correct moment for starting a conversation, or (if you can fly) in working out where to land. Queen…
- Episode 2: Water Oct 17, 2002 · 9m In this episode we learn about the amazing igloo-building skills of ants and the surprising ability of water to boil eggs.
- Episode 3: Germs Oct 24, 2002 · 9m You need to know something about Germs. You really do. And Professor Miles can help you...
- Episode 4: Ghosts Oct 31, 2002 · 9m Why can't ghosts whistle? Well, let's hear from a ghost.
- Episode 5: Sulphur Nov 7, 2002 · 9m Sulphur is revealed, and the story is not really about brimstone.
- Episode 6: Music Nov 21, 2002 · 9m A brief investigation of the world of music, from its Neolithic beginnings...
- Episode 7: Iron Dec 4, 2002 · 9m Iron (Fe) is not quite all it's cut up to be... The use of magnets is strictly prohibited during this episode.
- Episode 8: The Brain Dec 11, 2002 · 9m The team investigates the human brain and meets a man who is addicted to Electronic Brain Enhancements. What happens if you probe the brobe? How many nuts are there in a jar? And what are…