Frankenstein's Monsters

T1, E1: Professor Brian Cox grapples with science's darker side, asking why, when science has done so much for us, it often gets such a bad press. Starting with the original Frankenstein, the grisly 19th century tale of George Foster's hanging and subsequent 'electrocution', he confronts the idea that science can go 'too far'. Are British scientists’ meddlers, or visionaries corrupted by the unscrupulous?