As a documentary writer and director at BBC Television Judith was known for tracking long-term projects over one or two years, from the UK’s first human trials of genetic engineering to the biological development of teenagers.

SuperHuman (BBC1, 50 mins)
– Self Repair Winner of Science et Image, Prix Santé

Teen Species (BBC1, The Learning Channel, 2 x 60 mins)
– Girls Exploring the physical and psychological development of girls from 11 to 16 years old.
– Adults? How well do the rights and regulations surrounding our ‘coming of age’ marry up with the physical and biological development of 18 year olds?

The Secret Life of Twins (BBC1, 2 x 50 mins) – Hors Concours, Banff Television Festival
– Identical but Different (BBC 1, 50 mins) How identical is identical? Explores how identical twins become even more similar as they go through life and move apart
– Personality (BBC 1, 50 mins) Reveals extraordinary research into the genetic influence on our beliefs and personality

QED (BBC1, 1 x 40 mins)
Betsy and the Bongo: Follows a team of veterinary surgeons from New Orleans’ Audubon Society as they use cross-species surrogacy to reintroduce the Bongo to the slopes of Mount Kenya.

HORIZON (BBC2, 4 x 50′)
– The Gene Race: Programme tracking the earliest days of gene therapy research for Cystic Fibrosis, with research teams in London and the USA.
– Silent Children, New Language: Documentary exploring the emergence of a new language among deaf children in Nicaragua and what it means for our understanding of the human brain.
– The Virus that Cures: Can Soviet bacteriophage therapy help antibiotic resistance in the West? A Canadian millionaire thinks it can. Filmed in the Republic of Georgia.
– The Time Lords: Where relativity and quantum mechanics disagree, there lies the possibility of true time travel. With contributions from the Lords of contemporary physics: Stephen Hawking, Kip Thorne, Carl Sagan, David Deutsch and John Wheeler. Includes Carl Sagan’s last interview for television.

Clips of The Time Lords in action are available on YouTube. These are not my links so apologies if they don’t work when you get there:

1: No longer available.
2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDPNx-YoHK4 – includes the re-staging of the practical demo that Einstein was right – time stretches when you travel
3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrgXZXBIltw – Wow we made quiet programmes, back in those days
4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGyR2A3Ah3g – includes  the wonderful Carl Sagan at 06:25