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Brushing Up On... - Episode Guide

Season 1

British Tunnels

Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Apr 18, 2013

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Danny Baker considers some tunnel-based archive footage and endeavours to give a quick brush up on these mysterious, subterranean realms.

British Bridges

Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Apr 25, 2013

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Danny Baker endeavours to present the definitive guide to Britain's bridges in 30 minutes, armed only with a few VHS tapes and some ham-fisted research. Buckle up!

British Towers

Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: May 2, 2013

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Danny Baker turns his attention to Britain's towers, those soaring structures that loom loftily above us but about which little is known.

British Factories

Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: May 9, 2013

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Danny Baker ponders the British factory - the products, the people, the bosses and what happens when the hooter sounds and the tools are downed.

Season 2

Miniature Britain

Episode: 2x01 | Airdate: Feb 27, 2014

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Danny Baker embarks on a Lilliputian odyssey through all things titchy - from model trains to pint-sized cows via the mecca of the miniature, the model village.

British Statues

Episode: 2x02 | Airdate: Mar 6, 2014

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Danny Baker delves through the archives to look at statues. Featuring Winston Churchill, Emmeline Pankhurst, John Noakes and King Kong.

British Beaches

Episode: 2x03 | Airdate: Mar 13, 2014

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Danny Baker plonks a deckchair on the sandy bit between the land and the sea and mulls over this mysterious, salty, golden or pebbly hinterland.

British Woodlands

Episode: 2x04 | Airdate: Mar 20, 2014

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Danny Baker throws some archive footage into his knapsack and goes for a ramble through our green realms, encountering an X-rated mushroom along the way.

Street Furniture

Episode: 2x05 | Airdate: Mar 27, 2014

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Danny Baker strolls into the world of bollards, benches, bins and lavatories as he explores Britain's street furniture. Expect hymns to the phone box and pillar box by way of a terrifying Belisha beacon.

British Schools

Episode: 2x06 | Airdate: Apr 3, 2014

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Danny Baker dons the mortar board in a whistle-stop archival romp through our education system.

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