Can Science Make Me Perfect? with Alice Roberts
Anatomist Alice Roberts embarks on a quest to rebuild her own body from scratch, taking inspiration from the very best designs the natural world has to offer.
Anatomist Alice Roberts embarks on an audacious scientific stunt - to rebuild her own body from scratch, editing out errors left behind by evolution; to create the perfect body. With the help of one of the world's best virtual sculptors, Scott Eaton, and top SFX model maker Sangeet Prabhaker, Alice creates a life-size model of the perfect human body, to be revealed in front of 150 people at London's Science Museum.
Through natural selection, animals have evolved incredible biological designs, from supersharp senses to superpowered limbs. Alice is on a hunt to find the very best designs the natural world has to offer and use them to fix the flaws in our own human anatomy.
By meeting leading medical and animal experts, Alice finds out what the body's biggest problems are, and how amazing adaptations in the rest of the animal kingdom could provide inspiration for her perfect body. Using incredible CGI to morph her existing body into new forms, she demonstrates how rethinking our bodies could overcome millennia of natural selection.
Finally, in an epic reveal, Alice unveils the life-sized model of her perfect self in the Science Museum. There, in front of an audience, Alice meets the 'perfect human' version of herself for the first time.
Ambitious, audacious and packed with cutting-edge science, Can Science Make Me Perfect? With Alice Roberts challenges everything you thought you knew about the perfect body.
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Will Alice like the 'perfect' version of her?
Duration: 01:35
Music Played
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Giorgio Moroder
Don't Let Go
Credits
Role | Contributor |
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Presenter | Alice Roberts |
Expert | Scott Eaton |
Expert | Sangeet Prabhaker |
Expert | Roger Highfield |
Expert | Monica Daley |
Expert | Tim Jones |
Expert | Emily Saunders |
Expert | Iain Lyburn |
Expert | Neil Bradbury |
Expert | Alex Lyon |
Expert | Anjali Goswami |
Expert | Lizi Bryant |
Expert | Martin Birchall |
Expert | Badrul Hussain |
Expert | Trevor Cox |
Expert | Anita Sturnham |
Expert | Christopher Michaels |
Director of photography | Dave Wickham |
Sound Recordist | Adam Scourfield |
On-line editing | Paul Ingvarsson |
Re-recording mixer | Tim Wheeler |
Assistant Producer | Fiona Turnock |
Editor | Steve Blackwell |
Production Manager | Mari Hardwick |
Director | Peter Chinn |
Executive Producer | Gareth Cornick |
Production Company | October Films Ltd |
Broadcasts
- Wed 13 Jun 2018 21:00
- Thu 14 Jun 2018 02:30
- Sun 17 Jun 2018 23:45
- Thu 12 Mar 2020 21:00