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Is the year 2000 the beginning of a new age or just another date? Why has the millennium; a date of our own making; become the focus for the hopes and fears of mankind?

From Stonehenge to the Millennium Dome via apocalyptic doomsday cults, Equinox examines the maths, science and psychology behind the year 2000. The programme reveals that the millennium may have already passed rather uneventfully in 1996 due to some Monkish miscalculations in the year 525. In fact, it is man himself who may have created his own apocalypse – the millennium bug that will begin to play havoc with our computers on 9.9.99, affecting everything from hospital incubators to in-flight computer systems.  

Programme Information

  • Genre: Factual

  • Subgenre: Science

  • Producers: OXFORD FILM AND TELEVISION

  • Broadcaster: n/a

  • Duration: 1 x 78'

  • Tags: Science Disaster

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