Look Around You (2002–2005)
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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? The first series of this British comedy show, filmed in 2002, was a send-up of the earnest programmes for schools made in the 1960s and 1970s. The second series (2005) is a friendlier spoof of the BBC's own slightly wacky 'Tomorrow's World' programme (1965-2002), and it gives a view from somewhere around 1982 of what life might be like in the early 21st century. The new series is again written by Robert Popper and Peter Serafinowicz and consists of six thirty-minute shows, a big improvement on the ten-minute format of the first series. The new episodes are all wonderfully daft... Remember to have your jotter and your copy book handy!
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Season01
- S01E01
MathsOctober 10, 2002—Maths can help us in our daily lives - for example, in cooking pasta, in calculating the correct moment for starting a conversation, or (if - S01E02
WaterOctober 17, 2002—In this episode we learn about the amazing igloo-building skills of ants and the surprising ability of water to boil eggs. - S01E03
GermsOctober 24, 2002—You need to know something about Germs. You really do. And Professor Miles can help you... - S01E04
GhostsOctober 31, 2002—Why can't ghosts whistle? Well, let's hear from a ghost. - S01E05
SulphurNovember 7, 2002—Sulphur is revealed, and the story is not really about brimstone. - S01E06
MusicNovember 21, 2002—A brief investigation of the world of music, from its Neolithic beginnings... - S01E07
IronDecember 4, 2002—Iron (Fe) is not quite all it's cut up to be... The use of magnets is strictly prohibited during this episode. - S01E08
The BrainDecember 11, 2002—The team investigates the human brain and meets a man who is addicted to Electronic Brain Enhancements. What happens if you probe the brobe?
Season02
- S02E01
Music 2000January 31, 2005—We visit the Look Around You Music 2000 Competition, a search for the sounds people will be listening to in the year 2000. Three contestants - S02E02
HealthFebruary 7, 2005—The team looks at advances in healthcare, and Jack Morgan goes under the knife as Dr Fu supervizes the efforts of a robot-surgeon called Med - S02E03
SportFebruary 14, 2005—This week, the team looks at advances in sporting technology. The world 400,000-metre champion, Ros Lamb, demonstrates a new serum (based on - S02E04
FoodFebruary 21, 2005—The team looks at advances in food science and technology, and the world's one and only vegetable orchestra, led by Teddy Clarke, gives us a - S02E05
ComputersFebruary 28, 2005—The team looks at the hottest new computer technology and meets an e-boffin who has officially changed his name to Computer Jones (Paul Jerr - S02E06
Live FinalMarch 7, 2005—The Look Around You Invention of the Year Award comes to you live from BBC Television Centre in Shepherd's Bush, London. Six leading invento
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