Seasons & Episodes
Episode 1
Johnny Ball, with the help of a studio audience, will show some mind-stretching models, blistering ballistics, lightning
Episode 2
This week Johnny discovers why hands are so handy, how to make sense of your senses, automate an automaton and how bioni
Materials
This week Johnny looks at family trees, works out how to get rid of a boomerang, puts nylon in an endless spin and turns
Water
Lots of giggles and quite a few gurgles as Johnny explores water from H to O. Meanwhile - Think of a Number. At a quick
The Shape of Wealth
This week Johnny discovers some dicey things about dice and a number over a thousand miles long; also something heavy ab
Episode 6
This time Johnny considers why the Earth is in a flat spin; talks about what makes tocks tick and how to gain on the swi
The Pressure's Mine
The cold facts about squeezing a lot into a little. See how a little hot air can make a lot go a long way, and before th
Absolutely Nothing
The people who thought nothing was something - the man who invented nothing. People who have managed to sell us nothing.
Face Facts
Faces - old faces, new faces. Pulling faces and painting faces. Discovering that looks are more than skin-deep. See the
Seeing the Light
Reflect on the speed of light and the colour of space. Why Father Christmas is never seen. See what your screen looks li
Mechanical Minds
Computers - digital computers, electrical computers, wind, steam and sun computers. Computers that talk and computers th
Getting Things Moving
Seeing how the problem of Cleopatra's Needle was sewn up, how to pull your weight and someone else's besides. See a tail
Wheels Within Wheels
The first of six programmes with Johnny Ball. Round wheels, not-so-round wheels, oval wheels, big wheels, little wheels;
The Science of See-through Sand
He cooks, looks, hits, breaks and bends... glass. See some glass over 3,000 years old, a teardrop that goes with a bang
No Cockles, Just Muscles, Alive Alive Oh
Squeezing muscles, waving muscles, levering muscles, springing muscles and jumping muscles. He'll be in deep water seein
Elementarianisticalizationableism... or it's elemental when it's on the table
Atomic elements, lit up elements, man-made elements and elements that melt in your hand. See how two people become the s
Hello Listeners
Listening to loud sounds, soft sounds, old sounds and new sounds. Recording some of the first sounds. Investigating drum
2D or not 2D, That is the Question
Doubling dimension, flexing flexagons and perceiving perspective. See the impossible triangle, two dimensional people wh
Reproduction
The first of six programmes with Johnny Ball This week Johnny finds out about reproduction, discovering where your heart
What does exactly mean exactly ?
Johnny finds out how to measure a metre, what keeps a marching soldier in line when he puts his best foot forward and ho
Musical Numbers
This week Johnny looks at a few musical numbers - discovering that time can change the National Anthem but still rule th
Box Clever
Johnny discovers the secrets of Doctor Who's Tardis, a box that looks like one but isn't and a machine that makes boxes
Dangerous Curves
Find out how you can draw hyperbolas, parabolas and about the illusion that something is there when it isn't. So this we
Gambling
Find out if a fruit machine is fair and how skittles are at the fair. Also see some of the latest electronic games inclu
In the Balance
A 6 part series with Johnny Ball. Johnny bounces back with some lighthearted explorations into numbers and science. This
Bounce and Stretch
Watch Johnny spring through sand, cement and sponge cakes and discover new angles to pool playing.
Planes and Flights of Fancy
This week Johnny Ball airs his views on Plain Planes and Flights of Fancy with the aid of paper darts, boomerangs, kites
The Maze of Ways from A to B
Johnny takes off his waistcoat without removing his jacket and spins his way through maps and mazes, helped by a robot m
Say it with Numbers
Johnny whistles for the thistle sifter, finds out how a turtle draws and even meets a computer that talks back. So, in a
Beat It!
This week, the last of the series, it's Think of a Number and Beat it! Johnny discovers that hitting things together goe
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