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The Boat That Guy Built

Motorcycle racer and mechanic Guy Martin attempts to renovate a neglected narrowboat with inventions from the Industrial Revolution.

Guy visits an Industrial Revolution cotton mill to weave his own sheets on 19th-century looms, then builds his own mattress at the mattress-supplier to the Queen, in a bid to get a good night's sleep on board his narrowboat. He also makes his own version of another great British invention - an alarm clock.

The Boat That Guy Built: A Good Night's Sleep

BBC Sport: Guy Martin on the 2011 TT

Wednesday 16 March, 19:00, BBC Two

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Discovery: Memristors

We take it for granted that mobile phones today do as much, or more, than the cumbersome personal computers we bought just a decade ago. But many industry insiders believe that silicon chips are about to hit the buffers. Without the hardware to support them, computers may not continue to evolve at the same astonishing rate.

Will memristors - resistors with memory - be the next great leap forward in digital technology? Based on a thin film of titanium dioxide, they can do the work of billions of silicon chips using a fraction of their power.

Discovery : Memristors

Wednesday 16 March, 20:32, BBC World Service

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Wonders of the Universe

Having explored the wonders of the solar system, Professor Brian Cox steps boldly on to an even bigger stage - the universe.

In the second stop in his exploration of the wonders of the universe, Professor Brian Cox goes in search of humanity's very essence to answer the biggest questions of all: what are we? And where do we come from? This film is the story of matter - the stuff of which we are all made.

Wonders of the Universe: Stardust

BBC Space: How stars become Supernovae

BBC Space: Discover more about the Big Bang

Thursday 17 March, 20:00, BBC HD

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Digital Planet

Is the digital space killing creativity? With so much amateur content online, there is a strong desire to consume it all for free. Culture is rotting away before our very browsers. Or is it? Isn't this a great time to be alive – all this collaboration, untapped talent that now has an outlet thanks to the web.

That is up for discussion in a special edition of Digital Planet from the South by Southwest Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas.

Digital Planet: SXSW Special

South by Southwest (SXSW) 2011

Wednesday 16 March, 01:31, BBC World Service

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Surprise 'critical' warning raises nuclear fears

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Events at the shut-down Fukushima reactor 4 raise questions - and some alarm.

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The Science of Love

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