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Q.E.D. (BBC TV series)

Q.E.D. was the name of a strand of BBC popular science documentary films which aired in the United Kingdom from 1982 to 1999.^[1] Running in a half hour peak-time slot on the BBC's primary mass-audience channel BBC 1, the series had a more populist and general interest agenda than the long-running Horizon series which aired on the more specialist channel BBC 2.

Some notable films

• A Guide to Armageddon (1982) - the effects of a one megaton nuclear bomb being exploded over London.
• Simon's War (1983) - the life of Simon Weston, who suffered horrific burns in the Falklands War.
• John's Not Mad (1989) - following a fifteen year old boy with severe Tourette Syndrome.
• The Burning Question (1998) - on Spontaneous human combustion
• Breathless (1998) - investigating the Buteyko method for treating asthma.

References

External Links

• Q.E.D., British Film Institute. List of films, with dates.