2001 - A Space Odyssey

First broadcast from 20010101 to 20010112. (* = BBC7).

The Road To Extinction.

William Roberts reads Arthur C Clarke's ground-breaking novel. Set in our present, it is a vision of a future yet to be and of a past shrouded in mystery.

 
 
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0120010101* 20040510, * 20040511, * 20051008, * 20051009, * 20061009, * 20061010Millions of years ago on Earth, a strange transparent slab appears.
0220010102* 20051015, * 20051016, * 20061010, * 20061011Moonwatcher and the rest of the tribe learn how to use tools - with implications for all humanity.
0320010103* 20040511, * 20040512, * 20051022, * 20051023, * 20061011, * 20061012Dr Heywood Floyd heads out to the Moon - but why is an astronomer required for a Moonbase Flu epidemic?
0420010104* 20040511, * 20040512, * 20051029, * 20051030, * 20061012, * 20061013Dr Floyd reaches Moonbase and discovers there is more to the quarantine than he expected.
0520010105* 20040512, * 20040513, * 20051105, * 20051106, * 20061013, * 20061014Dave Bowman and crewmate Frank Poole are on their mission to Saturn.
0620010108* 20040512, * 20040513, * 20051112, * 20051113, * 20061016, * 20061017Poole and Bowman have their suspicions about HAL's reported communications failure.
0720010109* 20040513, * 20040514, * 20051119, * 20051120, * 20061017, * 20061018Frank and David start to suspect HAL of acting on its own volition - but does HAL suspect them?
0820010110* 20040513, * 20040514, * 20051126, * 20051127, * 20061018, * 20061019As the spaceship approaches Saturn, HAL the computer decides to take control of the ship.
0920010111* 20040514, * 20040515, * 20051203, * 20051204, * 20061019, * 20061020Bowman prepares to embark on the final stages of his reconnaissance mission to see the monolith on the Saturn moon of Japetus.
10 LAST20010112* 20040514, * 20040515, * 20051210, * 20051211, * 20061020, * 20061021On the last stage of his mission, Bowman drives a space pod towards the monolith on Japetus, one of Saturn's moons.