Channel 4 Saturday 3 February 6.35pm
Computer scientist Aubrey de Grey believes he has the answer to eternal life. As a Cambridge University computer technician, Aubrey has been rubbing shoulders with the great and the good of academic biology. With an open mind and a hunger for knowledge, he has become conversant with the latest aging research.
He is a man with a mission – to end the scandal of death. Ever the logician, Aubrey has identified 'seven deadly things' that cause aging and has proposed a solution for each.
Only those outside the field of biology admire Aubrey's work; it seems hard to discover a biologist who does. Most point out that whilst he is well informed, he is naïve in the extreme. He has no experience in the lab and has no idea how hard it is to address these problems in real life.