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Museum of Life


Thursday 2000 on BBC Two

Premier :: 2010-03-18

Genre :: Documentary
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Museum of Life - Show Summary

Jimmy Doherty goes behind the scenes at the Natural History Museum to join the people who are uncovering secrets, solving mysteries and making discoveries among the historic collections

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+ Series 1

+ Episode 6 - A Collection for the Future
Aired - 22 April 2010

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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.

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+ Episode 5 - The Power of Insects
Aired - 15 April 2010

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The team explore the great butterfly collection, meet the most stung man in the museum and discover how the museum is using insects to help at murder scenes.

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+ Episode 4 - Discovery
Aired - 08 April 2010

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Jimmy Doherty goes behind the scenes at the Natural History Museum to discover the lengths people go to to add new and rarely studied species to the collection. A colossal squid turns up at the museum, a team of scientists push through unexplored jungle in Panama and a pioneering project finds a new species at the bottom of the sea off the coast of Sweden.

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+ Episode 3 - All Creatures Great and Small
Aired - 01 April 2010

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Jimmy Doherty and the team go behind the scenes at the Natural History Museum to see work taking place on animals. They explore projects from the construction of a life-sized whale to a life-saving trip to Uganda. The true image of a dodo is revealed, and a nine-foot sturgeon turns up with the strangest tale of any object in the museum.

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+ Episode 2 - Digging Up the Past
Aired - 25 March 2010

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Jimmy Doherty and the team find out about the discovery of a new dinosaur, the latest thinking on the personality of a T Rex, and what scientists are learning from a human skull over a hundred thousand years old.

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+ Episode 1 - A Museum in a Modern World
Aired - 18 March 2010

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Jimmy Doherty gets to grips with Darwin's finches and Dippy the Diplodocus.

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