Tom Scott: England - Season 1
Season 1
Episodes
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.)
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.
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.
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".
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
This man stops people drowning in quicksand
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.
Pulling the lever is the easy part
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.
Can a 70-Year-Old Telescope Still Be Useful?
In Cheshire, I ask whether a telescope built in the 1950s can still do useful science and get to fulfill a childhood dream.
We can't invent a robot better than these ferrets
In Derbyshire, at the National Ferret School, I say "hello" to some smelly thieves, and go on a surprisingly Biblical tangent.
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