Season 4 · Episode 21 — The Life and Death of the Pine Processionary
Horizon reports on the problem of exterminating the pine processionary caterpillars infestation from the pine forests of Provence, Canada.
Season 4 episodes
E1Horizon probes into whether aggressiveness is our birthright and can society live without violence?
E2Medical advances have made it possible for 'life' to be maintained in an unconscious patient who has irrevocable brain damage and who might…
E3In this episode, Horizon looks at a new school of mathematics and physics near Novosibirsk in Siberia, Russia. This school uses a competiti…
E4Horizon profiles the life of the greatest physical scientist: Michael Faraday. Crucial events of his scientific career in science are recon…
E5Horizon looks at some research recently carried out into the migraine headache and the means to provide treatment for it.
E6Horizon probes in the danger of germs and infection in the operating theater and the methods currently used to prevent contamination.
E7Joel, a healthy young American, is reduced to a restless neurotic state after being deprived of his dreams for three nights. Mr Bates, an e…
E8Will the next major war be fought with biological and chemical weapons? What are the available weapons? What is the horror they can cause?…
E9Horizon explores the part of the human brain devoted to memory.
E10Horizon reports on the methods being used to irrigate the Negev Desert, making it fertile based on the methods of ancient civilizations.
E11In this the first of two programmes dealing with cancer, Horizon looks at the intensive search now going on to discover whether a virus is…
E12Why is there doubt in so many people's minds about the relationship between lung cancer and smoking? Tonight's programme examines the lates…
E13Horizon explores the work in the developmental field of Extra Sensory Perception (ESP).
E14Horizon explores the misconceptions that people have about what hypnosis is and looks at the medical implications of what it can do.
E15During the human struggles between the British and German air forces ... another conflict was going on step by step, month by month. This w…
E17Horizon looks at a Scottish chemist's unusual application for whisky: a measure of radioactive carbon 14 used for determining how old an ob…
E18Horizon looks into how man is learning to survive in the oceans.
E19In this episode, Horizon reports on new materials that are being used as art media by gaining inspiration from factory and industrial proce…
E20Horizon investigates air navigation and flight safety.
E21Horizon reports on the problem of exterminating the pine processionary caterpillars infestation from the pine forests of Provence, Canada.
E22Arthur Koestler talks about the psychological theories of creativity and the role of the mind in science and art.
E23Horizon looks into the life of Ted Serios who claims to have psychic powers and to be able to project images onto film using only his thoug…
E24Prof. J. Sumner-Miller asks some questions for enquiring minds on walking, singing, swimming, and flying toys.