Brian Cox and Robin Ince put Hollywood under the microscope to unpick the science fact v science fiction of some of the biggest movies set in space. They are joined by a truly out of this world panel of space experts including astronauts Tim Peake, Nicole Stott and Susan Kilrain alongside Oscar winning Special FX director Paul Franklin, whose movies include Interstellar and First Man. Tim, Nicole and Susan fact check how space travel and astronauts are portrayed in movies such as Gravity and The Martian, whilst Brian and Robin argue about Robin's lack of enthusiasm for Star Wars. They look back at some of the greatest Space movies including Alien and 2001 A Space Odyssey and ask whether some fictional aspects of these blockbusters may not be so far from our future reality?
Executive Producer: Alexandra Feachem.
Bats v Flies
A History of Rock
The Fundamentals of Reality
The Science of Cooking
Neanderthals
Under our Night Sky
In Praise of Flies
Does Time Exist?
What is Life?
When the Monkeys Met the Chimps
The Sun
An Astronaut's Guide to Isolation
Space Archaeology
Black Holes
The End of the Universe
UFO special
Lucy Beaumont's Close Encounters
Quantum Worlds
Fire
Coral Reefs
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