Health-Medical Documentary hosted by Robert Winston, published by BBC in 1998 - English narration
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The BBC's first major TV series on human biology is an incredible journey through the most complex biological mechanism on earth, from conception to the unchartered territory of death and beyond.
This astonishing series takes us on a journey breathtaking twists of the most complex biological mechanism on earth - the human body. The latest imaging techniques allow us to travel through veins, down fallopian tubes and around the brain, to understand how our bodies work.
The Human Body takes us on a journey from birth to death using time-lapse photography, computer graphics and various state-of-the-art imaging techniques to explore every aspect, every nook and crevice of the human body in its various stages of growth, maturity and eventual decay.
All the stages, pains of adolescence, complex activity of the brain and eventually death shown in steps with detailed explanation. The Human Body took around two and a half years to make and involved researchers liaising with medical institutes and scientific organisations around the world.
Presented by Dr. Robert Winston, one of the UK's leading fertility experts, it begins with a huge array of statistics about what we can hope for in the course of our lives. For example, did you know that the average person spends three and a half years eating, six months on the toilet and 12 years watching TV?
The series looks not only at the mechanics of the human body, but the emotions too because these are what make us human. It follows the lives of individuals at the key stages in the human life cycle: birth, childhood, adolescence, pregnancy, adulthood, old age and death. The Human Body allows viewers gain knowledge and understand the human body than ever before.
Director & Series Producer: Richard Dale ; A BBC / The Learning Channel Co-Production
4) Raging Teens
What you are about to see is one of the miracles of nature, the extraordinary transformation that will turn this caterpillar into a butterfly. But we human beings go through a transformation that is just as dramatic. Over four agonising years, our bodies and minds are transformed. At the end of it, like the butterfly, we'll be sexually mature. This incredible change is called puberty.
The fourth in a 7-part series in which Robert Winston looks in detail at the life of the human body in chronological order from birth to death. This part focuses on puberty. The physical changes of the body caused by hormones are illustrated. A group of teenage boys in California describe how puberty has affected them and the cameras follow Beatrice through 18 months of her life as she passes from 12 years old to nearly 14. The effects of estrogen and testosterone on the developing teenage body are shown in animated diagrams of the female reproductive system and the male sexual organs. Other teenage issues are covered such as acne, sexual urges, the development of pubic hair, the onset of menstruation and the development of the brain to think through complex moral reasoning to make a mature judgment.
