Episodes

1. What Is Life?

Professor Brian Cox journeys to Southeast Asia to see how life began on Earth and how the flow of energy created and supports life.

2. Expanding Universe

In the second episode, Brian travels to the U.S. to showcase how the laws of science allowed senses to arise.

3. Endless Forms Most Beautiful

Brian travels to Africa and Madagascar to analyse why Earth is a fertile place and how it allows complex life to exist.

4. Size Matters

The fourth episode sees Brian in Australia looking at how the size of life affects each plant and animal, and how long it can survive.

5. Home

In the final episode, Cox explains what makes Earth a home for life and asks what ingredients were required for complex life to begin.

Overview

Physicist and professor Brian Cox travels across the globe to uncover the secrets of the most extraordinary phenomenon in the universe: life.

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Brian Cox