Can Science Make Me Perfect? with Alice Roberts

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Scott Eaton

Sangeet Prabhaker

Roger Highfield

Monica Daley

Tim Jones

Emily Saunders

Iain Lyburn

Neil Bradbury

Alex Lyon

Anjali Goswami

Lizi Bryant

Martin Birchall

Badrul Hussain

Trevor Cox

Anita Sturnham

Christopher Michaels

Dave Wickham

Adam Scourfield

Paul Ingvarsson

Tim Wheeler

Fiona Turnock

Steve Blackwell

Mari Hardwick

Peter Chinn

Gareth Cornick

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Can Science Make Me Perfect? With Alice Roberts

13/06/2018

BBC Four - Can Science Make Me Perfect? with Alice Roberts

Anatomist Alice Roberts embarks on a quest to rebuild her own body from scratch.

Anatomist Alice Roberts embarks on a quest to rebuild her own body from scratch, taking inspiration from the very best designs the natural world has to offer.

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.

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