Horizon - Season 59

First aired: 3/31/2022 4 episodes

Episodes

1. How to Sleep Well with Michael Mosley

Aired: 3/31/2022

As more people than ever report struggling with their sleep, Michael Mosley uses the latest science to explore how this impacts our health and what can be done to improve our sleep.

2. Fergal Keane: Living with PTSD

Aired: 5/9/2022

BBC News special correspondent Fergal Keane has covered conflict and brutality for more than 30 years and is known for reporting with humanity and extraordinary empathy, but in 2020 revealed he had been diagnosed with an acute form of post-traumatic stress disorder. In this Horizon documentary, he reveals the impact of PTSD on his life, exploring how it led him to consider withdrawing from reporting on conflicts, as well as investigating the latest scientific thinking behind its treatment.

3. Making Sense of Cancer with Hannah Fry

Aired: 6/2/2022

When she's diagnosed with cervical cancer at the age of 36, Hannah Fry explores the problematic issues surrounding how we screen for and treat cancer, asking if we could be overmedicalising it.

4. Super Telescope: Mission to the Edge of the Universe

Aired: 7/14/2022

The inside story of the James Webb Space Telescope, following the Nasa team building the £8 billion device and the scientists taking its first image of distant stars and galaxies.