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Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives is a BAFTA

British Academy of Film and Television Arts

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-winning television documentary broadcast in 2007 on BBC Scotland

BBC Scotland

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and BBC Four

BBC Four

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, in which American rock musician Mark Oliver Everett

Mark Oliver Everett

Mark Oliver Everett is the lead singer, songwriter, guitarist, keyboardist and sometime drummer of the independent rock band Eels...

talks with physicists and the former colleagues of his father—Hugh Everett—about his father's many-worlds interpretation

Many-worlds interpretation

The many-worlds interpretation is an interpretation of quantum mechanics that asserts the objective reality of the universal wavefunction, but denies the actuality of wavefunction collapse. Many-worlds implies that all possible alternative histories and futures are real, each representing an...

of quantum mechanics

Quantum mechanics

Quantum mechanics, also known as quantum physics or quantum theory, is a branch of physics providing a mathematical description of much of the dual particle-like and wave-like behavior and interactions of energy and matter. It departs from classical mechanics primarily at the atomic and subatomic...

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The American premiere screening was at the 2008 inaugural World Science Festival

World Science Festival

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in New York

New York

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The documentary was shown in full before each concert during the Eels' 2008 world tour.

A petition was started to persuade the BBC to issue the documentary on DVD.

Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives was broadcast in the United States on the PBS

Public Broadcasting Service

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program Nova
NOVA (TV series)
Nova is a popular science television series from the U.S. produced by WGBH Boston. It can be seen on the Public Broadcasting Service in the United States, and in more than 100 other countries...

on 21 October 2008. The US version of the documentary features American voice actors for the narration. This version is available in DVD.

The British version of the documentary is narrated by Annie Mac

Annie Mac

Annie Mac is an Irish DJ and television presenter who hosts an eponymous electronic dance music show on BBC Radio 1 in the United Kingdom which airs at 7:00 pm on Friday evenings as well as a Sunday evening show alongside co-presenter Nick Grimshaw.-Personal life:Annie Mac was born in Dublin,...

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