Pandora's Box(1992)
A fable from the age of science
Overview
Pandora's Box is a six-part 1992 BBC documentary television series which examines the consequences of political and technocratic rationalism. The episodes deal, in order, with communism in The Soviet Union, systems analysis and game theory during the Cold War, economy in the United Kingdom during the 1970s, the insecticide DDT, Kwame Nkrumah's leadership in Ghana during the 1950s and 1960s and the history of nuclear power.
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6 episodes • 1992
Series 1
6 episodes • 1992
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Engineer's Plot | Jun 11, 1992 | 0.0 |
| 2 | To The Brink of Eternity | Jun 18, 1992 | 0.0 |
| 3 | The League of Gentlemen | Jun 22, 1992 | 0.0 |
| 4 | Goodbye Mrs Ant | Jul 2, 1992 | 0.0 |
| 5 | Black Power | Jul 9, 1992 | 0.0 |
| 6 | A is For Atom | Jul 16, 1992 | 0.0 |
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