Tom Scott takes a road trip to every county of England, travelling by car, train, boat, plane, tram, monorail and hovercraft, visiting hidden infrastructure, ancient traditions, and more bells than you might expect.
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- Seasons
- 1
- Episodes aired
- 25
- Latest aired
- S01E25
- Total runtime
- 9h 10min
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S01E01 I Helped Break a 142-Year-Old Bell, and That’s Okay
March 23 · 31min find the promo
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In Leicestershire, at the John Taylor Bell Foundry, there's fire, sledgehammer swinging, and metal hotter than a volcano. Also, several questions about cheese.
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S01E02 They Can Fly 200 Miles With No Fuel. Here’s How.
March 30 · 26min find the promo
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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.
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S01E03 I Missed the Evidence. Can You Spot It?
April 6 · 28min find the promo
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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.
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S01E04 These People Walk Towards Mining Disasters
April 13 · 20min find the promo
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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.
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S01E05 These Mannequins Can Bleed
April 20 · 28min find the promo
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At Sheffield Hallam University in Yorkshire, I meet the Clinical Simulation team and deal with some animated patients. (Note: includes simulated blood and gore.)
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S01E06 I Finally Got to Drive Yorkshire’s Tiny Boats
April 27 · 23min find the promo
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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.
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S01E07 If You Found Candy With My Name in It, Here’s Why
May 4 · 16min find the promo
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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.
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S01E08 Oh No, I Sympathized With a Victorian Arms Dealer
May 11 · 24min find the promo
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In Northumberland, at the National Trust's Cragside mansion, I visit the former home of the Magician of the North.
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S01E09 The Mist That Keeps the Tyne Tunnels Safe
May 18 · 21min find the promo
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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.
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S01E10 This Man Stops People Drowning in Quicksand
May 25 · 26min find the promo
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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.
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S01E11 Pulling the Lever Is the Easy Part
June 1 · 26min find the promo
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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.
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S01E12 Can a 70-Year-Old Telescope Still Be Useful?
June 8 · 22min find the promo
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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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S01E13 We Can’t Invent a Robot Better Than These Ferrets
June 15 · 22min find the promo
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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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S01E14 I Got Hit in the Teeth With 900-Year-Old Antlers
June 22 · 14min find the promo
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In the village of Abbots Bromley in Staffordshire, I join the oldest village tradition in Britain: the Horn Dance. It ends up being slightly more painful than I expected.
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S01E15 I Launched the Mighty Trebuchet
June 29 · 22min find the promo
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At Warwick Castle, there's a 22-tonne medieval siege engine. I got to see how it works, meet the person in charge, and -- technically -- help fire it. Technically.
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S01E16 If I Get this Wrong, 50,000 People Will Hear It.
July 6 · 22min find the promo
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At Worcester Cathedral, I finally take on a challenge that hundreds of people have suggested: bell ringing. It's difficult, a little dangerous, and also lets me talk about a lot of weird English words.
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S01E17 I Have a Weird Conspiracy Theory About This Bridge
July 13 · 12min find the promo
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In Shropshire, I visit the Iron Bridge in the village of Ironbridge. And then I have a corkboard, pins, string, and a frankly-unhinged conspiracy theory about what an architect was actually planning.
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S01E18 I Get Excited About an Ampersand
July 20 · 22min find the promo
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At Hereford Cathedral, I visit a library where the books are chained to the shelves -- and see two of those books, to help understand just how quickly one technology can change the world.
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S01E19 I’m So Glad This Hidden Monorail Broke Down
July 27 · 26min find the promo
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At the English end of the Prince of Wales Bridge, in Gloucestershire, I get to visit the Rapid Access Train, the RAT, a hidden suspended monorail. Except... that's only half the story.
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S01E20 Two Nerds Try to Build a Wall
August 3 · 24min find the promo
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In Oxfordshire, at the Dry Stone Academy, I'm joined by Dr Becky. We have until our camera batteries run out to try one of the oldest surviving crafts in Britain: dry stone walling.
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S01E21 This 100-Year-Old Ride Must Never Change Again
August 10 · 16min find the promo
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At Wicksteed Park in Northamptonshire, there's a 100-year-old water chute, and I took a ride. Also, I find the first ever playground swing, and make a fool of myself on a slide.
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S01E22 How Do You Keep 8,995 Codebreakers Secret?
August 17 · 25min find the promo
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At Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire, I don't want to know how a few boffins broke the Enigma code, because it wasn't a few boffins. I want to know: how on earth did they keep the "intelligence factory" secret when there were thousands and thousands of people involved?
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S01E23 I Didn’t Need to Drive This Mars Rover, but I Did
August 24 · 22min find the promo
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In Stevenage, Hertfordshire, there's a simulation of Mars: at Airbus' facilities, I got to meet some Mars rovers, take a test drive, and discover the most incredible wheel I've ever seen.
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S01E24 Flying a Plane Badly, On Purpose
August 31 · 16min find the promo
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At Cranfield University in Bedfordshire, I'm going aboard the National Flying Laboratory, and trying to keep my sense of direction, and my stomach, as the plane goes through some very non-standard manoeuvres.
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S01E25 Thomas, a Tank Engine, is not Thomas the Tank Engine.
September 7 · 16min find the promo
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At the Nene Valley Railway in Huntingdonshire, I meet a tank engine called Thomas that is, for legal reasons, not Thomas the Tank Engine... and, to my surprise, I find out why, in the early days of steam, Victorians might have found trains terrifying.
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S01E26 Episode 26
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S01E27 Episode 27
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S01E28 Episode 28
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S01E29 Episode 29
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S01E30 Episode 30
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S01E31 Episode 31
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