James Walton

Clear, thorough and gripping: BBC2’s Horizon – The Battle to Beat Malaria

Plus: too many cop shows are about the police being either brilliant or evil and not what they seem to be, which is a bit rubbish. Piglets expertly fills the gap

BBC2's Horizon: The Battle To Beat Malaria took on the shape of a gripping thriller. Image: Louis Caulfield / © Wingspan Productions 
issue 27 July 2024

If you transcribed the narrator’s script in almost any episode of Horizon, you’d notice something striking: an awful lot of the phrases would end with a colon, and for one obvious reason: to play a neat trick on the viewers: that of making them keen to hear what comes next.

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