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Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives
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'Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives' is a BAFTA-winning[http://www.bafta.org/awards/television-craft/television-craft-nominations-in-2008,363,BA.html TV Craft Winners 2008] , 'BAFTA' television documentary broadcast in 2007 on BBC Scotland and BBC Four, in which American rock musician Mark Oliver Everett talks with physicists and the former colleagues of his fatherHugh Everettabout his father's many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics.Thompson, Andrew, [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7113098.stm "The rock star and the quantum mechanic"], BBC News, Monday, 26 November 2007[http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=hugh-everett-new-film-tackles-many-2008-10-21 Hugh Everett: New film tackles "many worlds" theory of quantum mechanics] 60 second science, Scientific American blog, by Jordan Lite and George Musser The documentary was shot and directed by Louise Lockwood and edited by Folko Boermans.
The American premiere screening was at the 2008 inaugural World Science Festival in New York City.
The documentary was shown in full before each concert during the 2008 world tour of Eels.
A petition was started to persuade the BBC to issue the documentary on DVD.[http://ninaowls.multiply.com/video/item/1983 Petition to BBC 4 for release of Parallel Worlds Parallel Lives on DVD]
'Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives' was broadcast in the United States on the PBS program 'Nova' on 21 October 2008. The US version of the documentary features American voice actors for the narration.[https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/manyworlds/ Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives"], PBS Nova TV program, October 2008. This version was available in DVD but has fallen out of print.[https://www.amazon.com/NOVA-Parallel-Worlds-Lives/dp/B001MYIPXC/ref=sr_1_1 Amazon listing for 'Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives'] Amazon.com
The British version of the documentary is narrated by Annie Mac. The 'NOVA' version was narrated by journalist Stefanie E. Frame.
Everett called making the film "the single most rewarding experience of my life in many ways."
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Further reading
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* Healy, Pat, [http://www.eelstheband.com/pwpl_metro.htm "Nova came for his soul: Eels front man on the healing power of a science doc about his dad"] 'Metro' newspaper, 21 October 2008.
*Mark Oliver Everett, 'Things the Grandchildren Should Know',
*[https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/manyworlds/bios.html 'Nova' review]
*[http://www.eelstheband.com/parallel_worlds.php Eels official website]
Category:Documentary films about science
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