June 8, 2001
Surviving by Their Wits
Most reality-based television shows get low marks for educational merit -- unless you count Machiavellian lessons in backstabbing. One exception is Rough Science, produced by Britain's Open University.
The program plops down five scientists on a gorgeous desert island and challenges them to build cameras and other gadgets from scraps of found materials.
The BBC show, which will begin taping its second series in July, pits people against nature, rather than each other. No one is
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