Basic Info
First Air: March 18, 2010
Status: Ended
Seasons & Episodes
Seasons: 1
Episodes: 6
Last Episode
Name: A Collection for the Future
Season: 1, Episode: 6
Air Date: 2010-04-22
Jimmy Doherty and the team go behind the scenes at the Natural History Museum to see how science taking place today will impact on all of us in the future. Beetles inspire new technologies, the latest scanner allows scientists to take a trip inside a shark, and ancient specimens are called into the battle to help prevent extinction.
Museum of Life
2010
1 seasons
6 episodes
Overview
Museum of Life is a 2010 BBC2 documentary, that takes a look behind the scenes at the British Museum of Natural History. It is introduced and co-presented by Jimmy Doherty, who was a volunteer at the Natural History Museum ten years previously. Other presenters are Kate Bellingham, Liz Bonnin, Mark Carwardine, and Chris Van Tulleken. The six-part program ranges over topics such as the care and maintenance of the Museum's 70 million specimens, and the relevance of research by the Museum scientists to contemporary problems such as biodiversity loss and the spread of tropical disease.
Genres
Documentary
Production Countries
- United Kingdom
Spoken Languages
- English en
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Cast
Jimmy Doherty
Self
Crew
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