Hi there,
I'm also a great fan of Horizon - there have produced many memorable docu-dramas. The best of which must be Life Story: The Race for the Double Helix - an absolutely brilliant Horizon special.
Life Story was first broadcast on BBC2 TV as a Horizon Special, on 27th April 1987 and was the winner of the 1987 BAFTA Award for Best Single Drama. In November 2002, Life Story won the European Midas Prize for the best TV drama on a scientific subject made in the last 50 years. It was released on VHS NTSC in the USA under the title of: 'The Race for the Double Helix'.
But unfortunately this is a very, very rare, virtually unobtainable Horizon progamme.
Hawking is commercially available on Region 2 DVD and stars Benedict Cumberbatch who delivers a superb performance as Professor Stephen Hawking. Hawking is available from Play.com �11-99 delivered.
I have been searching for another wonderful Horizon special: The Eddystone Lights - a marvellously entertaining docu-drama on the three, often bizarre and crazy, attempts to construct the Eddystone Lighthouse - one lighthouse was, incredibly, built out of wood and of course caught fire and collasped into the sea, the second was simply blown over - finally the third, a substantial stone built lighthouse remained totally stable, fixed and upright! The excellent music, on this Horizon special, was by film composer George Fenton.
I would love a copy of this Horizon gem![]()