Season 19 · Episode 2 — Finding a Voice
An examination of computer-based communication aids for the severely speech impaired. Follows the trip to America of Dick Boydell, a cerebral palsy sufferer without the power of speech. At the Artificial Language Research Laboratory in Michigan, he tries out some of the machines developed the re to help him find his own voice.
Season 19 episodes
E1Profile of the snake, which presents a close-up look at how it kills and digests it's prey. Also shows how snake venom could be used in the…
E2An examination of computer-based communication aids for the severely speech impaired. Follows the trip to America of Dick Boydell, a cerebr…
E3Documentary which looks at the wildlife of Pleasant Bay in New England marshland s of the Eastern USA, and their habitat.
E4Horizon explores what might happen when fossil fuel sources are depleted.
E5Horizon documents how every one of us is owned and operated by other individuals; by hordes of hidden organisms.
E6Documentary on the first recorded instance of genetic engineering being carried out on a human, when in 1980, Dr. Martin Cline from Los Ang…
E7Documentary which looks at the way in which disease in the world fights back against modern scientific methods of controlling it, looking a…
E8An examination of the use of Depo-Provera in the Third World. The contraceptive is injected and prevents pregnancy for three months, but it…
E9Documentary which looks at the psychological effects of kidnapping and imprisonment on the victims,based on the psychological characteristi…
E10Examines the prospects for Japanese economic supremacy in the 1990s and asks whether Japan will be able to compete in the development of ne…
E11Documentary which looks at the boom in private medicine in GB and at the effects of this on the National Health Service in the country.
E12Documentary which looks at the outbreak of a new disease in Spain in 1981 which has affected 17,000 people, killing 300, and the confusion…
E13Documentary which shows the human reproductive cycle from conception to birth, through the use of microscopic cameras within the human body.
E14Documentary which looks at the phenomenon of the Unidentified Flying Object and the possible explanations behind their sighting and observa…
E15Documentary about acid rain. The effects of various forms of pollution caused by processes of everyday life, including the contamination of…
E16A look at current research into the causes and effects of divorce in the Western world.
E17Documentary which looks at the great advances in the performance of ante-natal operations on the human foetus and the implications of these…
E18Oxford moral philosopher Jonathan Glover introduces some of the new developments in genetic engineering, looks at the future possibilities…
E19An informal portrait of Prof. Ian McColl at work in Guy's Hospital, London, and in Kent. He discusses what makes a good surgeon; how he tea…
E20Traces the evolution of the helicopter, using rare archive footage of early pioneering flights. Also examines the latest research within th…
E21Documentary on the discussions at the second UN Environment Conference,in London in 1982,illustrating the points made in the debates on the…
E22Documentary about the little known Yugoslav-American scientist Nikola Tesla, whose experiments with electricity and wireless foreshadowed t…