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28 August 2002	Sail the Endeavour with Screenhouse! New network slot. Follow the adventures of Catherine Wood, who won the competition we ran with BBC North for a place on the crew of H.M Bark Endeavour. Sailing from the Azores to Whitby, sleeping on hammocks, and climbing the rigging, her exploits can be seen on August 29th at 19:30 on BBC2. More details here.
23 August 2002	Snapshots on air, web site goes live. For the Open University and the Vega Science Trust, Snapshots answers the question "what do scientists do all day?" The six fifteen-minute programmes follow the lives of six young scientists, showing that it's not all white coats. Bog snorkelling for crayfish, anyone?. The series is part of the Learning Zone on BBC2 and the web site, also made by Screenhouse, goes live on Thursday 22nd August. The six programmes transmit at 01:05hrs on Friday. More information can be found here or on the Open University Website. The Race for the Pole with Dr David Milstead, Physicist. TX: 23/08/02 Invasion of the Plague Carriers with Dr Jeama Stanton, Biologist. TX: 30/08/02 Leg Before Cricket with Dr Chinmay Gupte, Surgeon. TX: 06/09/02 Building on Success with Sara McGowan, Engineer. TX: 13/09/02 The Puzzle of Parkinsons with Dr Birgit Liss, Biochemist. TX: 20/09/02 Antarctic Adventure with Dr Miles Pebody, programmer. TX: 27/09/02
1 August 2002	Benjamin Franklin House Benjamin Franklin, American politician, diplomat, scientist and inventor of the lightning rod, spent many years in London. His house in Craven Street off the Strand is being opened to the public, and Screenhouse has been asked to provide an exciting interactive science centre for students. Opening 2003.
8 April 2002	Einstein Channel features 125 Screenhouse programmes If you watch the Einstein Channel on digital satellite TV, you might be looking at Screenhouse science programmes. Thanks to the extraordinary efforts of Emma Frank and the Einstein team, we have now completed 125 five-minute programmes Einstein.tv. Shot on DV by the team on incredible schedules and tight budgets, the results are terrific.
11 February 2002	Funky Lab website, for GlaxoSmithKline goes live Want a bit of Funk with your science? Then visit www.funkylab.co.uk to see the latest output of Screenhouse Interactive (and some not entirely flattering animated versions of Screenhouse staff members). It is based on the live shows we do for Glaxo Smith Kline. See the events page for details.
7 December 2001	Adam Fixes wobble on Millennium Bridge Simulator wobbling Millennium Bridge at Tate Modern, just metres from the real bridge. They then investigated the wobble, and fixed it. Download the press release for more information.
20 November 2001	Science Shack Into its fourth week of its six week run Scienceshack is winning above average audiences for its BBC2 Friday night 7.30pm slot. Presented by Adam Hart-Davis, Scienceshack turns the experiments the viewers dream of into astonishing reality. Ever wondered what it would be like to walk on the ceiling? Adam, with not much more than a vacuum cleaner, magnets and some sticky-back plastic, shows you how. You want to know how to avoid lightning? Adam gets into a Faraday cage and is zapped with a million volts of electricity. In the last programme in the series broadcast on December 7th, Adam and the Scienceshack team will have a go at fixing the wobbling Millenium Bridge in London!
20 November 2001	Einstein TV Screenhouse is well on the way to producing its 125th feature for Einstein TV – a new digital channel dedicated to science. Broadcast in the UK on Sky and in several other European countries it is a fast, furious, fact-packed rolling science news service, dubbed ‘the MTV of Science’. Shot in the UK our intrepid Einstein team have discovered (among the hundreds of stories they are now up to date on) that garlic has antibiotic properties and that running an electric current through your herbaceous border breaks down heavy metal pollution in the earth and helps the peonies process the metals usefully!
9 August 2001	Science Shack swings into full production With its full complement of staff now in place, Science Shack the TV series is underway. The new website for the series will shortly be posted onto the BBC servers. From this you will have the opportunity to become involved in the planning and making of the series. On the website we will be putting up requests for help - the responses to which will find themselves included in the programmes.
28 June 2001	After the Genome is transmitted on BBC2, 00:30 The complete human genetic sequence has been published - but what does it mean? This 50 minute film for the BBC and Open University asks how science, medicine, and even life itself might be different after the genome. Produced and directed by Paul Bader, Researcher Clare White, Editor Brian Tomkins, Camera Mike Wilkie, Sound Andy Cross, Online editor Chris Timson, Production Manager Catherine Mounsey .
15 June 2001	Coprolites, the first episode of Object Lessons transmitted on BBC2, 00.40 A new series of ten, short programmes for BBC2 that takes a quirky look at scientists and the objects they work with. Coprolites. 15 June 2001, 00:40 hrs The Dark Matter Detector. 24 June 2001, 00:30 hrs Bats. 1 July 2001, 00:30 hrs Coal. 20 July 2001, 00:00 hrs The Skull. 27 July 2001, 00:00 hrs Super Massive Black Holes. 5 Aug 2001 Nuclear Fusion Power Plant. 19 Aug 2001 Flame. 26 Aug 2001 The Mosquito. 2 Sept 2001 Cigarettes. 9 Sept 2001 Produced and directed by Marty Jopson, Executive Producer Paul Bader, Researcher Julie Townend, Editor Brian Tomkins, Camera Mike Wilkie, Sound Andy Cross, Production Manager Catherine Mounsey .
June 2001	Our new website goes live This complete re-design is now 90% operational. It incorporates many new Flash elements and will ultimately contain streaming media of our programmes and examples of our multimedia output. For now, take a look at the productions we have in the pipeline on our television page and for those seeking new opportunities, the current vacancies section has all the details.