Pandora's Box(1992)
Documentary
First Air Date: 1992-06-11
Average Runtime: 55m
Rating: 7.4
Votes: 19
Seasons: 1
Episodes: 6
Pandora's Box is a six-part 1992 BBC documentary television series which examines the consequences of political and technocratic rationalism. The episodes deal, in order, with communism in The Soviet Union, systems analysis and game theory during the Cold War, economy in the United Kingdom during the 1970s, the insecticide DDT, Kwame Nkrumah's leadership in Ghana during the 1950s and 1960s and the history of nuclear power.
Keywords
cold warscientific studysocietypoliticsminiserieseconomicstechnocracy
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Series 1
Episodes: 6E01
The Engineer's Plot
Air Date: 1992-06-11
"The revolutionaries who toppled the Tsar in 1917 thought science held the key to their new world. In fact, it ended ...
E02
To The Brink of Eternity
Air Date: 1992-06-18
Focusing on the men of the Cold War on whom Dr Strangelove was based. These were people who believed that the world c...
E03
The League of Gentlemen
Air Date: 1992-06-22
Thirty years ago, a group of economists managed to convince British politicians that they had foolproof technical mea...
E04
Goodbye Mrs Ant
Air Date: 1992-07-02
A modern fable about science and society, focusing on our attitude to nature. Should we let scientists be the prime m...
E05
Black Power
Air Date: 1992-07-09
A look at how former Ghanaian leader Kwame Nkrumah set Africa ablaze with his vision of a new industrial and scientif...
E06
A is For Atom
Air Date: 1992-07-16
An insight into the history of nuclear power. In the 1950s scientists and politicians thought they could create a dif...
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