Program examines various aspects of aphrodisiacs and their use to enhance sexual desire and performance. Includes the history, scientific research, and personal narratives related to all types of aphrodisiacs and their effectiveness.

Chokher Bali , A passion play, is set between 1902 and 1905. The story about four young people trapped in a tangle of sensuality. A women strugging to free herself from the oppression of widowhood. Binodini is a beautiful, educated girl from the country. Two inseparable childhood friends from Kolkata, inseparable childhood friends, (now both studying medicine), are offered her hand in marriage. Mahendra and Behari) refuse her. Binodini married another man only to be widowed within a year. A little later Behari, is engaged to Ashlata, Mahendra meets Asha, is attracted to her, and marries her in place of Behari. Time passes, Binodini have by then become insparable.... so close that they have an affectioned pet name foe each other. They call other "Chokher Bali", literally "sand in the eye" among these four young people there develops a forbidden attraction..... a mesmerising web of destiny and desire.

Antibiotics have revolutionized the practice of medicine. The magic bullets have been used to fight the bacteria that cause many of man's ill including veneral disease, tuberculosis, stomach uler, mastoiditis and other common infections. However, bacteria that once yielded so quickly to these wonder drugs have learned to resist the antibiotic onslaught. Today, infections that were once easily cured are not responding to the usual treatments. We have abused antibiotics to the point where we must now go back to the lab and begin research to develop a whole new generation of drugs. Also explores the use of antibiotics in agriculture and the possible side effects it has on new strains of resistant bacteria. Includes looking at some of the new uses that are being found for the most important weapon ever developed for medicine arsenal.

Panorama has been given exclusive access to the largest ever study of so-called "miracle babies". Babies born at less than 26 weeks gestation, who owe their lives entirely to modern medicine. The findings of the study raise complex questions about the purpose of neonatal intensive care and the sanctity of life. Has the time come for doctors to stop their heroic attempts to save the smallest babies, in order to concentrate on those more likely to survive "intract:.