Pandora's Box

1992•1 series

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The consequences of exploiting technological and political ideas, and technocratic rationalism, without understanding and concern for the outcome.

Episode 1The Engineers' Plot

First of six modern fables exploring the cultural impact of 20th Century science.

Episode 2To the Brink of Eternity

An investigation into the workings of the first scientific think-tank. Contains some upsetting scenes.

Episode 3The League of Gentlemen

The odd and sometimes comic story of the rise and fall of the science of money.

Episode 4Goodbye Mrs. Ant

Goodbye Mrs Ant. A comic and absurd story about human beings, science and nature.

Episode 5Black Power

In 1957, Kwame Nkrumah dreamt of building an industrial utopia in west Africa.

Episode 6A Is for Atom

Why did a technology with the potential to change the world go so disastrously astray?

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