The Secret Life of Breasts – Tales of the Unexpected
(Genepool Productions, 2014) Laying breasts bare in the name of science.
New science is revealing breasts in a way that we’ve never seen them before. For years we’ve been seeking perfection. Gradually we are beginning to understand the wondrous biochemistry and evolution of the breast. But now some scientists believe breasts may be a hidden toxic waste ground, living time-bombs that might endanger not only their owners – but also those who suckle at them. Putting actual breast tissue – and breast milk – to the test we investigate if these wonderful life-giving organs are under threat from the modern world, and, if so, what we can do to save them.
Episode Director: Ili Baré, Series Producer: Peter Rees, Executive Producers: Sonya Pemberton & Michael Cordell
Tales Of The Unexpected is a new strand of provocative, confronting and thoroughly entertaining science documentaries. Each episode reveals a fascinating, sometimes awkward, and frequently unsettling world where peculiar ideas are put to the test. Come with us to where nothing is quite as it seems, where diseases are diagnosed by palm-readers, where paternity uncertainty drives the mating game, and where breasts are a toxic health hazard.
Series Producer
PETER REES
Director
ILI BARÉ
Editor
THOM CORCORAN
Additional Editing
ANDREW COOKE
Associate Producer
CAROLINE PEGRAM
GEORGIE LEWIN
JOSEPHINE WRIGHT
Camera
GLENN HANNS
Sound Recordist
DANIEL MIAU
Script Consultant
ANDREW MASTERSON
Narrator
RACHAEL BLAKE
Music
CHARLIE CHAN MUSIC
Additional Music
“STOMPIN” COMPOSED AND PERFORMED BY JESSE LETHBRIDGE
Graphics
DOMINIC BARTOLO
21:19
Audio Mix
TRACKS POST
Colourist
TRISTAN LA FONTAINE
Online Editor
MICAH RIX-HAYES
Scientific Consultant
PROFESSOR PHILIP BATTERHAM
ALICE KLEIN
Production Managers
SELINA FORBES
Additional Production Managers
PRASAN DE SILVA
COLLEEN HANNAH
Production Coordinator
ADELINE GIBSON
Production Assistant
EMMA VICKERY
Production Accountants
BRONWYN SPEZIALE
CAROL RAMIREZ
Business Affairs
KATHERINE SHORTLAND
Production Supervisor
ELOISE WILLIAMS
Head of Production
TONI MALONE
SBS Commissioning Editor
JOSEPH MAXWELL
FOR SMITHSONIAN CHANNEL
Vice President of Production Management
ADDIE MORAY
Executive Producer
JOY GALANE
Executive Producer
TIM EVANS
Vice President of Development
CHRIS HOELZL
Executive Vice President of
Programming and Production
DAVID ROYLE
Special Thanks
Dr. Ralph Bright, Dr. Linda Birnbaum, Professor Philip Crowe, Professor Susan Davis, Dr. Pouria Moradi, Professor Jochen Mueller, Professor David Newberg, Associate Professor Richard Payne, Dr. Anna Rotanda, Associate Professor Elizabeth Salisbury, Professor Peter Sly, Professor Kathy Tucker, Naomi Bar-Yam, Dr. Diana Zuckerman
Clera Babaya, Kat Campbell, Jen Allison & Beatrix Chamberlain, Helen & Brody Brind, Leander Collins, Lolomi, Cassius, and Delilah Collins, Jessica & Henry Donovan, Suzanna Elliott-Newth, Antigone Foster & Tycho Shave, Sarah & Thomas Fennell, Samantha & Declan Furniss, Kayla & Adriane Haye, Taryn Ireland, Abid Jumane, Imogen Kelly, Jessica & Sierra Korenic, Peter Lovely Gitish & Aiya Misagh, Joe Modafferi, Stephen Prowser, Cristine Rara, Carol Rashleigh, Lauren Salmon & Zane Lee, Valeh & Jayda Sedghi, Vanessa & Tochukwu Smtih, Wendy Spenser, Emma Stewart
Bendon Bras, Byron Bay Community Markets, Macquarie Cosmetic
Medicine, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (USA), National Research Center for Women & Families (USA), National Research Center for Environmental Toxicology, University of Queensland, Pink Hope, Prince of Wales Private Hospital, Terry White Chemists, Think 24 hour Fitness
Author of 'Breasts: a natural and unnatural history': Florence Williams
Executive Producers
SONYA PEMBERTON &
MICHAEL CORDELL
GENEPOOL PRODUCTIONS
SMITHSONIAN NETWORK
Produced In Association with SBS
PRINCIPAL INVESTOR
SCREEN AUSTRALIA
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