SBS 2014 1 season 3 eps PG Ended

Tales of the Unexpected

Name: Tales of the Unexpected
Genre: Documentary

2014 1 season 3 eps PG

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Season 1

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45 min

S1 · E1 · Apr 6, 2014

The Secret Life Of Breasts Episode 1

New science is revealing breasts in a way that we’ve never seen them before. For years we’ve been seeking perfection: shape, size, and food source for our children. But now some scientists believe they may also be a hidden toxic waste ground. Putting breasts tissue - and breast milk - to the test, this documentary will investigate if these wonderful life-giving organs are under threat from the modern world and if they’re actually an early warning system telling us about the dangers of the chemicals around us.

45 min

S1 · E2 · Apr 13, 2014

Secrets Of The Hand Episode 2

For thousands of years, in fairgrounds and temples, palm readers have claimed our hands encode valuable information. Is this just superstition? Or is there, buried beneath the theatre and the cliches, a core of genuine science? Can our hands really tell us anything about our past, our present or our future? Does the lifeline on your hand reveal the age at which you’ll die? Can your hands detect your sexual preference? For the first time palm reading is put to the test and will debunk the myths that have been passed on for generations. This documentary will also have you looking at your own hands in a new light.

45 min

S1 · E3 · Apr 20, 2014

Who's Your Daddy Episode 3

One in three children, claim many tabloids, may not be biologically related to the man they call Dad. Could this really be true? This program conducts the first ever purpose-designed paternity poll, asking some truly awkward questions. Comparing rates of paternity uncertainty in Australia and the United States, we ask what is the real rate of ‘non-paternity’, and might there be biological survival benefits for children born outside marriage? Following parents and children as they seek to uncover the truth, we discover how, today, there’s nowhere to hide your genes.

3 episodes in Season 1

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Tales of the Unexpected is a new strand of provocative, confronting and thoroughly entertaining science documentaries. Each episode reveals a fascinating, sometimes awkward, and frequently unsettling world where peculiar ideas are put to the test. Come with us to where nothing is quite as it seems, where diseases are diagnosed by palm-readers, where paternity uncertainty drives the mating game, and where breasts are a toxic health hazard.

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Total runtime 2h 36m · Episode length 52 min · Type Documentary

Show info

Premiered

April 6, 2014

Final episode

April 20, 2014

Status

Ended

Network

SBS

Country

Australia

Type

Documentary

Episode length

52 min

Total runtime

2h 36m

Original language

English

Production

Genepool Productions

Production

Cordell Jigsaw Productions

Production

Languages

Spoken on screen

English

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