Horizon · SEASON 6
Snap, Crackle and Bang
Episode 29 · 1969-11-03

- Documentary
Episode overview
The props for this programme are pistols, muskets and, above all, explosives. For 30 years now these are what Colonel Brian Shaw, marksman and lecturer in chemistry, has been using in his now famous lecture on explosives. He gave it once again for Horizon before an invited audience at University College, London.
60 minutes
Season 6 episodes
1. Inside Every Fat Man1969-01-02
2. If Only They Could Speak1969-01-09
3. The Miraculous Wonder: The Human Eye1969-01-16
4. The Years of the Locust1969-01-23
5. The Gifted Child1969-01-30
6. The Last of the Polymaths1969-02-06
7. Music and the Mind1969-02-13
8. Report on V.D.1969-02-20
9. Extra-Sensory Perception1969-02-27
10. The Drift from Science1969-03-06
11. Powers of Persuasion1969-03-13
12. The View from Space1969-03-20
13. The Unborn Patient1969-03-27
14. The Physicist in the Kitchen1969-04-03
15. King Solomon's Garden1969-04-10
16. Muck Today, Poison Tomorrow1969-04-24
17. Shark1969-05-01
18. Technology and Self-Determination1969-05-15
19. After Apollo1969-05-22
20. Discovery1969-05-29
21. Machines and People1969-06-05
22. Science on Safari1969-09-15
23. A True Madness1969-09-22
24. Problems of Pain1969-09-29
25. Four Fast Legs and a Nose1969-10-06
26. Father of the Man1969-10-13
27. Master of the Microscope1969-10-20
28. C.E.R.N.1969-10-27
29. Snap, Crackle and Bang1969-11-03
30. Cancer Now1969-11-10
31. There's a Rhino in My Sugar1969-11-17
32. Fit to Live?1969-11-24
33. Don't Cackle, Lay Eggs1969-12-01
34. How Much Do You Drink?1969-12-08
35. A Game of War1969-12-15
36. Bread1969-12-22
37. For the Safety of Mankind1969-12-29