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Can Science Make Me Perfect? with Alice Roberts

Duration: 1 hour, 29 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on BBC Four

Anatomist Alice Roberts embarks on an audacious scientific stunt - to rebuild her own body from scratch, editing out errors left behind by evolution; to create the perfect body. With the help of one of the world's best virtual sculptors, Scott Eaton, and top SFX model maker Sangeet Prabhaker, Alice creates a life-size model of the perfect human body, to be revealed in front of 150 people at London's Science Museum.

Through natural selection, animals have evolved incredible biological designs, from supersharp senses to superpowered limbs. Alice is on a hunt to find the very best designs the natural world has to offer and use them to fix the flaws in our own human anatomy.

By meeting leading medical and animal experts, Alice finds out what the body's biggest problems are, and how amazing adaptations in the rest of the animal kingdom could provide inspiration for her perfect body. Using incredible CGI to morph her existing body into new forms, she demonstrates how rethinking our bodies could overcome millennia of natural selection.

Finally, in an epic reveal, Alice unveils the life-sized model of her perfect self in the Science Museum. There, in front of an audience, Alice meets the 'perfect human' version of herself for the first time.

Ambitious, audacious and packed with cutting-edge science, Can Science Make Me Perfect? With Alice Roberts challenges everything you thought you knew about the perfect body. Show less

Contributors

Presenter:
Alice Roberts
Expert:
Tim Jones
Expert:
Alex Lyon
Expert:
Trevor Cox
Director of photography:
Dave Wickham
Sound Recordist:
Adam Scourfield
On-line editing:
Paul Ingvarsson
Re-recording mixer:
Tim Wheeler
Assistant Producer:
Fiona Turnock
Production Manager:
Mari Hardwick
Director:
Peter Chinn
Executive Producer:
Gareth Cornick
Production Company:
October Films Ltd

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