Medical Frontiers (working title) presented by Professor Robert Winston, is a new medical series for BBC ONE, examining the life and death decisions made every day on the edge of medicine.

Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives follows the lead singer of US rock band Eels, MARK OLIVER EVERETT, as he travels across America to learn about the father he never knew, HUGH EVERETT III, a quantum physicist.

This year is the 50th anniversary of Hugh Everett’s most important contribution to science – a controversial theory of quantum mechanics that predicts the existence of PARALLEL UNIVERSES, one of the most fantastic scientific predictions ever to have been conceived. The concept of parallel universes is now not only explored by many top physicists, it is also a staple plot line in many science fiction stories.

A new BBC Documentary with Dr Michio Kaku starts on November 5th on BBC FOUR

This Sunday (23 September)is a Horizon special which follows a team of pioneering doctors as they climb Everest - to the 'death zone'- in a bid to revolutionise the treatment of intensive care patients.

BBC Four to screen new science season - Science You Can't See - an exploration of great scientific achievements in the 20th century.