Programme Index

Discover 11,128,835 listings and 279,694 playable programmes from the BBC

Bang Goes the Theory

Series 8

Episode 2: Cancer

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One HDLatest broadcast: on BBC Two England

It is 60 years since a British doctor first made the link between smoking and lung cancer, and now it seems we may finally be starting to win the battle against nature's most vicious disease. Liz Bonnin explains how cells turn cancerous by blowing high-tech bubbles. Jem Stansfield builds his own radiotherapy gun, Maggie Philbin looks at the latest drugs, and the team are joined by Ground Force's Tommy Walsh, who looks into screening for bowel cancer. Show less

About this data

This data is drawn from the data stream that informs BBC's iPlayer and Sounds. The information shows what was scheduled to be broadcast, meaning it was/is subject to change and may not be accurate. More