
Museum of Life is a 2010 BBC2 documentary, that takes a look behind the scenes at the British Museum of Natural History. It is introduced and co-presented by Jimmy Doherty, who was a volunteer at the Natural History Museum ten years previously. Other presenters are Kate Bellingham, Liz Bonnin, Mark Carwardine, and Chris Van Tulleken. The six-part program ranges over topics such as the care and maintenance of the Museum's 70 million specimens, and the relevance of research by the Museum scientists to contemporary problems such as biodiversity loss and the spread of tropical disease.
Air Date: 2010-03-18
Jimmy Doherty gets to grips with Darwin's finches and Dippy the Diplodocus.
Air Date: 2010-03-25
Jimmy Doherty and the team find out about the discovery of a new dinosaur, the latest thinking on the personality of ...
Air Date: 2010-04-01
They explore projects from the construction of a life-sized whale to a life-saving trip to Uganda. The true image of ...
Air Date: 2010-04-08
Jimmy Doherty goes behind the scenes at the Natural History Museum to discover the lengths people go to to add new an...
Air Date: 2010-04-15
Jimmy Doherty and the team go behind the scenes at the Natural History Museum to enter the extraordinary world of ins...
Air Date: 2010-04-22
Jimmy Doherty and the team go behind the scenes at the Natural History Museum to see how science taking place today w...