Season 1

21 Episodes2026

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Episodes (21)

Ep 1

I Helped Break a 142-Year-Old Bell, and That’s Okay

2026-03-23•31m

In Leicestershire, at the John Taylor Bell Foundry, there's fire, sledgehammer swinging, and metal hotter than a volcano. Also, several questions about cheese.

Ep 2

They Can Fly 200 Miles With No Fuel. Here’s How.

2026-03-30•26m

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. Let's learn about paragliding.

Ep 3

I Missed the Evidence. Can You Spot It?

2026-04-06•28m

At the University of Lincoln's Crime Scene House, where they teach forensic science students in simulated crime scenes, I have a challenge for you.

Ep 4

These People Walk Towards Mining Disasters

2026-04-13•20m

In Nottinghamshire, I join the team at MRS Training and Rescue -- the former Mines Rescue Service -- for an exercise that could have been so much worse.

Ep 5

These mannequins can bleed.

2026-04-20•28m

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.)

Ep 6

I finally got to drive Yorkshire’s tiny boats

2026-04-27•23m

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.

Ep 7

If you found candy with my name in it, here's why

2026-05-04•16m

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.

Ep 8

Oh no, I sympathized with a Victorian arms dealer

2026-05-11•24m

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".

Ep 9

The mist that keeps the Tyne Tunnels safe

2026-05-18•20m

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.

Ep 10

This man stops people drowning in quicksand

2026-05-25•26m

In Westmorland, at Morecambe Bay, I meet the King's Guide to the Sands, walk across a very dangerous stretch of sand, and learn about a centuries-old tradition that's been brought into the 21st century.

Ep 11

Pulling the lever is the easy part.

2026-06-01•25m

In Lancashire, at National Rail's Manchester signalling classroom, I learn why it's very, very rare for trains to collide... and then go to an actual, live signal box to see it for real.

Ep 12

Can a 70-year-old telescope still be useful?

2026-06-08•22m

At Jodrell Bank in Cheshire, I get to fulfill a childhood dream: but more importantly, I ask whether a telescope built in the 1950s can still do useful science.

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Ep 13