LOOK AROUND YOU. Look around you. Just look around you. What do you see? A tree. A weather-vane. A discarded lollipop-wrapper. A traffic shop. All of these things, and any other things you may care to mention, have one thing in common. Can you work out what it is?
LOOK AROUND YOU. Look around you. Just look around you. What do you see? A tree. A weather-vane. A discarded lollipop-wrapper. A traffic shop. All of these things, and any other things you may care to mention, have one thing in common. Can you work out what it is?
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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.
E1 · Maths
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 Elizabeth I…
E2 · Water
In this episode we learn about the amazing igloo-building skills of ants and the surprising ability of water to boil eggs.
E3 · Germs
You need to know something about Germs. You really do. And Professor Miles can help you...
E4 · Ghosts
Why can't ghosts whistle? Well, let's hear from a ghost.
E5 · Sulphur
Sulphur is revealed, and the story is not really about brimstone.
E6 · Music
A brief investigation of the world of music, from its Neolithic beginnings...
E7 · Iron
Iron (Fe) is not quite all it's cut up to be... The use of magnets is strictly prohibited during this episode.
E8 · The Brain
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 brain flakes…
The second series of Look Around You is presented in the pop-science vein of programmes such as Tomorrow's World.
E1 · Music 2000
We visit the Look Around You Music 2000 Competition, a search for the sounds people will be listening to in the year 2000. Three contestants have half a minute each to perform what they think will be …
E2 · Health
The team looks at advances in healthcare, and Jack Morgan goes under the knife as Dr Fu supervizes the efforts of a robot-surgeon called Medibot to create the perfect face. Other presenters try out a …
E3 · Sport
This week, the team looks at advances in sporting technology. The world 400,000-metre champion, Ros Lamb, demonstrates a new serum (based on caramel-flavoured rocket fuel) which is said to help her to…
E4 · Food
The team looks at advances in food science and technology, and the world's one and only vegetable orchestra, led by Teddy Clarke, gives us a live performance in the studio. We meet Andy Gough, Slimmer…
E5 · Computers
The team looks at the hottest new computer technology and meets an e-boffin who has officially changed his name to Computer Jones (Paul Jerrico). Computer introduces the UK's most powerful computer, c…
E6 · Live Final
The Look Around You Invention of the Year Award comes to you live from BBC Television Centre in Shepherd's Bush, London. Six leading inventors are in the studio hoping to take the big trophy. The fina…
