Q.E.D

Q: What's the link between a Plumber and a dinosaur? A: Baryonyx, a giant feat-eating dinosaur, was discovered near Dorking one Weekend in 1983 by a plumber called BILL WALKER , when he dug up its massive fossilised claw. Q : What's the di…

Queen Victoria died on 22 January 1901. Do you know what day of the week that was? David Kidd does - in fact he'll tell you (as fast as a mini-computer) that it was Tuesday - like 12 March 1996 and even 1 March 2044. But ask him to add eig…

A light-hearted look at the origins of Kenny Everett from 'Big Bang' to birth. Cosmic space-time controller John Westbrook gets a red alert when Kenny tries to grow a human being in his garden tub. John finds our experimenter is no threat …

Everyone makes mistakes. It wouldn't be human not to. Forgetting keys, burning the toast, missing an appointment ... every day, a succession of tiny disruptions to the usual smooth surface of everyday lives; infuriating, yes, but hardly di…

Gillian Rice, Graeme Garden and Alan Maryon Davis reveal how much the experts know about AIDS, and what challenges they face in finding a vaccine and a cure. With the help of specially-designed models - of the AIDS virus and of the human s…

We've all made paper aeroplanes; but this one was different. It kept on flying for nine days - right round the world. Q.E.D. was in at the beginning, long before Dick Rutan , Jeana Yeager and their Voyager aircraft flew slowly and bumpily …

On 18 September 1986, two young stockbrokers leapt from a hot-air balloon 35,000 feet above Norfolk to break the civilian World Freefall Record. They fell over six miles and reached a speed of 350 mph before opening their parachutes: their…

Take the sheer power and versatility of a top athlete. add the strength and endurance of a heavyweight boxer and somehow pack it all into the poised and graceful frame of a prima ballerina. Then you might just have someone who could rehear…

The evidence: a shattered skull, a broken jaw, faded honeymoon photos and incriminating letters. The motive: revenge, ambition or glory. The suspects: the Pompous solicitor, the French Priest and the man in black. Holmes and Watson stake t…

You would hardly expect a hospital to encourage its patients to suffer enormous pain but one in Japan does. It is their way of getting the crippled back on to their feet. Mrs Shinsho and Mrs Ise are confined to wheelchairs with rheumatoid …

Alaisdair Macbeth likes to go out with girls, but he's frightened to ask. John Gibbons is frustrated when his young son beats him at rifle shooting. Broadcaster Toni Arthur can't stop her hands shaking when she's under pressure. The Alpha …

Have you ever eaten earth or clay and enjoyed it? If so you are not alone. Q.E.D. talks to Joyce from Liverpool who daily licks the soil from potatoes, Joanna from Mississippi who sprinkles dirt from beside the road over ice-cream and Sher…

Why not colour sheep a luminous orange so that they can't be lost in snowdrifts? Or improve bus services by giving every passenger a steering wheel? Ideas tested past destruction by DREADCO, the private research corporation imagined by Dr …

You too could walk on the moon, eat astronaut food and fly a space shuttle mission; it's all part of the weekly routine in the Huntsville, Alabama, Space Camp. A fantasy comes true for four British youngsters when Marie, Richard, Sally and…

Jean has been trapped in her room for 13 years. Her life is dominated by bizarre rituals; she washes her hands 50 times a day and is compelled to check constantly the position of every item of her furniture. Jean's husband Ian and her chil…