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Horizon

Season 2 · Episode 24

Boys on Bubbles / Problems and Puzzles

0.01h 0mSeptember 25, 1966

Horizon re-stages highlights from Professor C. V. Boys's famous Christmas lectures on bubbles and surface tension which drew crowds to the London Institution sixty-six years ago. Then, a mathematician challenges you to solve some of the puzzles he has invented.

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Episode 1Learning from Machines
Episode 2The Technique of Change
Episode 3Star Gazers
Episode 4Science and Art
Episode 5The Great Computer Scandal / H-Bomb Detectors
Episode 6Forbidden Events / I am a Madman
Episode 7Restless Genius / Faster, Farther, Higher
Episode 8The Other Side of the Pill
Episode 9The Big Smoke / The Model Makers
Episode 10The Long Slide / Men with Gills
Episode 11Men and Sharks / Sir Henry Dale, OM, FRS
Episode 12The Brain Gain / The Sudden Night / Learning to Speak
Episode 13Dr. Joseph Needham / Mariner IV
Episode 14Science Fiction : Science Fact? / Alone and Unarmed
Episode 15Certain of Uncertainty / State of Nature
Episode 16Time Stood Still / Weighty Matters
Episode 17Fuel for the Future / Collector's Piece
Episode 18Let Newton Be
Episode 19Special Senses / Toil, Sweat & Tears
Episode 20An Affair of the Heart
Episode 2110,000 Tombs
Episode 22Albert Szent-Györgyi M.D., Ph.D., D.h.c.
Episode 23The Big Dishes / The Living Stream
Episode 24Boys on Bubbles / Problems and Puzzles