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PRIME PRESENTS: PEAK ANTIBIOTICS Prime, 8.30 Monday We are each, according to one of the talking heads in Peak Antibiotics, a big bag of bacteria with billions of years of evolution on their side.  That’s because while there are several trillion cells making up the human body, there are around a gazillion bacteria for each […]

Next month Prime will premiere two NZ documentaries in HD: Decades in Colour and Peak Antibiotics. The former (8.30 Sundays from April 3), which Judy Bailey will present, revisits NZ in the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s. The publicity dubs it a “living snapshot” rather than a history lesson, so expect more home-movie nostalgia than socio-political analysis. Peak Antibiotics (April 4, 8.30) investigates the rise of antibiotic resistance […]