Look Around You

8.1
200230m

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?

Trailers & Videos

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Look Around You - Casserole

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look around you season 2 ep 1 -- synthesizer patel

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AC/DC - Because it's Heavy Metal

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Thants & Blants

Seasons

8 Episodes • Premiered 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.

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1. 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 III and Queen Elizabeth IV are going to a party given by Queen Elizabeth V. QE3 has forty dresses to choose from, QE4 has four thousand, and QE5 has only one dress, but it can take the form of many dresses. Then, during the night, QE3's servant steals the plans for QE4's party dress and, working till dawn, makes four thousand exact copies... So can we reckon what the chance is that all of the Queens will be wearing the same dress at the party?

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2. Water

In this episode we learn about the amazing igloo-building skills of ants and the surprising ability of water to boil eggs.

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3. Germs

You need to know something about Germs. You really do. And Professor Miles can help you...

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4. Ghosts

Why can't ghosts whistle? Well, let's hear from a ghost.

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5. Sulphur

Sulphur is revealed, and the story is not really about brimstone.

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6. Music

A brief investigation of the world of music, from its Neolithic beginnings...

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7. Iron

Iron (Fe) is not quite all it's cut up to be... The use of magnets is strictly prohibited during this episode.

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8. 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? All of these questions are addressed, if not answered.

Cast

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Peter Serafinowicz

Peter Packard

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Robert Popper

Jack Morgan

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Olivia Colman

Pam Bachelor

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Josie D'Arby

Pealy Maghti

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