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  • Dateline

    The Baby Box

    The Baby Box

    (13:38)   Rating: 50 out of 5 stars

    More: Dateline | Genre: Interview, Current Affairs, Politics, Series

    Hundreds of babies are abandoned each year in South Korea, prompting a pastor to build a special baby box for them to be left in.

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  • My Life on a Post-It Note

    My Life on a Post-It Note

    (55:35)   Rating: 35 out of 5 stars

    Genre: Health, Documentary

    Follow the story of Christine Lyall-Grant who has early-onset dementia, and her daughter, Fiona, who is struggling to come to terms with her mother's reliance on her.

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  • World's Greatest Mysteries

    Butch Cassidy: Demise by Bullet or Old Age?

    Butch Cassidy: Demise by Bullet or Old Age?

    Season 1, Episode 4 (25:14)   Rating: 35 out of 5 stars

    More: World's Greatest Mysteries | Genre: Documentary, Series

    Were famous bank and train robbers Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid killed in a gun battle with Bolivian soldiers, or did they survive?

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  • The Secret Life of the Dog

    The Secret Life of the Dog

    (50:16)   Rating: 30 out of 5 stars

    Genre: Science, Documentary, Animals

    New research in canine recognition is revealing that dogs think like human babies. It raises the question whether they have emotions like we do? And how did the canine-human relationship develop? Could it be we are more like our pets than we ever realised?

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  • Where's My Robot?

    Where's My Robot?

    (48:39)   Rating: 25 out of 5 stars

    Genre: Documentary, Technology

    Embark on a fascinating journey to discover why the combined might of 21st Century human intellect has failed to deliver something for which there seems to be a universal appetite - the perfect domestic robot.

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  • What's Really In Our Food

    Milk

    Milk

    Season 4, Episode 3 (22:40)   Rating: 30 out of 5 stars

    More: What's Really In Our Food | Genre: Food, Series

    Is milk really a super food? Could some varieties trigger heart disease, diabetes and sudden infant death syndrome?

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  • Finding My Mind

    Finding My Mind

    (52:25)   Rating: 25 out of 5 stars

    Genre: Science, Health, Documentary

    For thousands of years philosophers have tried and failed to come up with satisfactory answers to questions such as who am I? and how does my brain make my subjective mind? - not neuroscientists are making some fascinating and unnerving discoveries.

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  • Tough Nuts

    The Sunshine Boy

    The Sunshine Boy

    Season 2, Episode 7 (55:47)   Rating: 35 out of 5 stars

    More: Tough Nuts | Genre: Crime, Series

    Multiple murderer, drug dealer, kidnapper extortionist and street hoon, Dino Dibra grew up in Sunshine - a tough working class suburb where he became lifelong friends with a group of boys at school who would all go on to make their marks in Melbourne's underworld.

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  • Don't Grow Old

    Don't Grow Old

    (49:20)   Rating: 25 out of 5 stars

    Genre: Health, Documentary

    A mysterious ageing process is underway inside every cell of our body. Now scientists are looking at this process and whether it could ultimately be manipulated?

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  • Naked Science

    Big Freeze

    Big Freeze

    Season 2, Episode 1 (50:22)   Rating: 35 out of 5 stars

    More: Naked Science | Genre: Science, Series

    The next Ice Age may still be in the distant future but Naked Science examines how abrupt climate change in the form of more frequent big freezes could spell disaster for life on Earth.

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  • Why Can't We Predict ...

    Why Can't We Predict Earthquakes?

    (51:54)   Rating: 25 out of 5 stars

    Genre: Science, Documentary

    Why hasn't science worked out how to predict when and where the next big quake is going to happen? Last century, earthquakes killed a million people. This century might see 10 times as many. Why is it so hard to know when and where an earthquake will happen next?

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  • Countdown to Delirium

    Countdown to Delirium

    (49:38)   Rating: 35 out of 5 stars

    Genre: Crime, Health

    Scientists have assessed the social and individual harm caused by some of the most addictive drugs, from alcohol to heroin. What's surprising is that some of the most dangerous are legal. Take a trip through the narcotics' top 20 to understand the pros and cons of the current classification system.

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