ANNABEL GILLINGS
DIRECTOR, WRITER & SERIES PRODUCER 

NETFLIX The science of a baby's first year. How does a baby come to understand language? And how do they manage to produce it themselves?

You can't see it or touch it - but our lives depend on it. How did our atmosphere come into being and how has it shaped our planet? Geologist Iain Stewart visits Shark Bay in Australia to find the creatures that made our atmosphere and takes a trip in an English Electric Lightning to see just how thin it is. Nominated for: BAFTA Best Director, Factual BAFTA Best Factual Series Grierson Best Science Documentary Winner: Wildscreen (Golden Panda)

BBC2 Horizon presented by Dr Jim Al Khalili Six months after the the explosions at the nuclear power plant in Japan, Jim visits the site to discover the extent of the damage on the place - and on the people. We meet scientists from Chernobyl to discover the true legacy of that disaster, and travel back to Pripyat with a local woman who was evacuated, to discover the less-publicised trauma of being uprooted from your home after such a disaster.

BBC2 comedy/ science panel show hosted by Professor Brian Cox Comedians Ben Miller and Hugh Dennis each lead a team of scientists as they compete to find the scientific connections between six unlikely objects.

FIRST TO LAST Primetime BBC1 series presented by Michael Mosley. From your very first breath, to your last, how does your body stay alive? By looking at extremes - from Ice Man Wim Hof swimming in a glacial lake in Iceland to firefighters in Texas - this film explores the body's survival mechanisms. Each of us relies on these same processes every day: we trace how they kick in at birth, and ebb away at the moment of death.