Documentaries to buy on DVD

	Soul Searching - David Malone
		This two part series is the sequel to Channel Four's much praised Testing God series which was said by the Times reviewer to be as close to poetry as television gets. Just as Testing God pitted belief in God against what modern science has to say, so Soul Searching tests belief in the Soul. It asks, is the idea of the Soul anything more than a figment of the religious imagination? Is there some real scientific basis for the feeling that many even non religious people have, that in addition to their body and their brain there is something else, some inner essence which is the real core of who and what we are? It is that feeling which Soul Searching examines. The self and our feeling we have one may be making a scientific comeback. But we are still left wondering if the Self is all we are? Or is there some truth underlying the feeling that many have, that there is something else, something deeper than the self. Something we might call the Soul. The second episode, The Undiscovered Country, looks at what that deeper part to us might be.
		£15.99

	Stem Cells: The Promise - David Paterson
		"Stem Cells: The Promise" consists of two documentaries which show how medical research has developed an understanding of our bodies so advanced that it can already bring us substantially healthier and longer lives. Stem Cell medicine will change our lives as individuals, it will change society, it will change the world. Society had better be prepared for a world where people in the West can expect to live active healthy lives of 120 years and more. Stem Cell technology is "regenerative" medicine. It can reverse the effects of stroke, heart disease, arthritis, Alzheimer's and is able to restore mobility. It can even make cancer cells self destruct and rejuvenate old tissues and organs. An end to cancer and the prospect of something approaching immortality lies imminently before us. How does this technology work, what can it already do and what will its imminent advance mean for us all ? Please note that this DVD is in PAL format and therefore may not play on all US DVD players.
		£9.99

	Testing God - David Malone
		Is it still posssible, in an age of rationalism and science, to believe in God? Some of the world's top scientists think it is. Science, they say, has not killed God, but merely pushed the God problem to a deeper place. This critically acclaimed three part series by David Malone is available for the first time on DVD.
		£15.99

	Dangerous Knowledge
		Dangerous Knowledge was originally aired on BBC 4 on 8th August 2007 as part of the "Science You Can't See" season. David Malone tells the tragic story of four great minds whose brilliant but obsessive pursuit of certainty in an uncertain world, ended in their madness or suicide. One after another, they all sought certainty but found uncertainty. They were all radically at odds with their times, but laid the foundations of ours. The brilliant mathematician, Georg Cantor, believed he was God's messenger. But when his theories of infinity uncovered paradoxes and uncertainty at the foundation of mathematics, he was bitterly opposed and eventually driven insane The physicist Ludwig Boltzmann, then brought uncertainty into the heart of Physics itself and faced equally implacable opposition. After 30 years of being unable to get his theories accepted, he committed suicide. Kurt Gödel, the greatest logician of all time and the introverted confidant of Einstein. Gödel wanted to solve the problems that had defeated Cantor and prove once and for all the completeness of mathematics. Instead he proved mathematics would always be incomplete and some problems would forever lie beyond logical proof. He starved himself to death. The story ends with Alan Turing, the great Bletchley Park code breaker, father of computer science and homosexual. The mathematics of infinity which had shaken the foundations of logic, became for Turing, a question about the human mind. He died still asking if the limits of logic were the limits of the human mind or if we transcended mere logic. The film also talks to the latest in the line of thinkers who have continued to pursue the question of whether there are things that mathematics and the human mind cannot know. They include Greg Chaitin, mathematician at the IBM TJ Watson Research Center, New York, and Sir Roger Penrose. Dangerous Knowledge tackles some of the profound questions about the true nature of reality that mathematical thinkers are still trying to answer today.
		£15.99