Seasons & Episodes
Season 1
10 episodes
E01
I Helped Break a 142-Year-Old Bell, and That's Okay
At the John Taylor Bell Foundry in Leicestershire, there's fire, sledgehammer swinging, and metal hotter than a volcano.
E02
They Can Fly 200 Miles With No Fuel. Here's How.
In Rutland, I try to fit an entire county in one camera shot, learn to spot chimneys in the sky, and make a very strange noise.
E03
I Missed the Evidence. Can You Spot It?
At the University of Lincoln's Crime Scene House, where they teach forensic science, I have a challenge for you.
E04
These People Walk Towards Mining Disasters
In Nottinghamshire, I join the team at MRS Training and Rescue for an exercise that could have been so much worse.
E05
These mannequins can bleed.
At Sheffield Hallam University in the West Riding of Yorkshire, I meet the Clinical Simulation team, and deal with some surprisingly animated patients. (Note: includes simulated blood and gore.)
E06
I finally got to drive Yorkshire's tiny boats
At Peasholm Park in Scarborough, in the North Riding of Yorkshire, I visit the Naval Warfare, ride with the world's smallest crewed navy, and scare at least two seagulls.
E07
If you found candy with my name in it, here's why
At the John Bull Rock Factory outside Bridlington, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, I watch as boiling sugar becomes an enormous amount of rock. Also, there's 1990s Dutch happy hardcore.
E08
Oh no, I sympathized with a Victorian arms dealer
In Northumberland, at the National Trust's Cragside mansion, I visit the former home of the Magician of the North, learn a shocking fact about some lamps, and utter the phrase "it gets worse".
E09
The mist that keeps the Tyne Tunnels safe
At the Tyne Road Tunnels, just over the border into Durham, I get very wet and cold underneath a river... but not in the way you might expect
E10
Episode 10
Cast
Tom Scott
as Tom Scott