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The Cell

Published August 21, 2009 Uncategorized Leave a Comment

What’s that? You’re bored of the summer holidays? You need some good science TV to keep your biology appetite satisfied? Well that’s lucky, because BBC have a fantastic series on the cell. It’s called, appropriately, The Cell and is on Wendesday 10pm BBC4. If you haven’t seen it yet you’ve missed the first two episodes, but thankfully the iPlayer has the whole series, so you can catch up.

Proper science telly.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00m5w92

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