Rough Science - Series 1

Series 1

This series is set on the Mediterranean island of Capraia and features four episodes, and various tasks:

1. "Mediterranean Mystery" - The group is taken to a disused prison on the island where they have to determine the longitude and latitude of the island, create a radio from a saucepan and create an insect repellent.
2. "Simmering Shutterbugs" - Create a camera with film, create a compass and dye a flag.
3. "Power Supplies" - Generate power and build a pharmacy (creating antiseptic using olives and myrtle, and antiflatulent with fennel seeds).
4. "Sustenance and Sayonara" - Create soap and toothpaste (though the general task is to put food on the table).

The scientists featured are:

• Vanessa Griffiths, marine biologist who teaches ecology for The Field Studies Council at Orielton Field Centre in Pembrokeshire
• Anna Lewington, ethnobotanist and an economic botanist, researching how people, and groups of people, use plants and how this is important to the societies in which they live
• Jonathan Hare, chemist, physicist, inventor, and teacher
• Mike Leahy, virologist
• Mike Bullivant, organic photochemist