British Tunnels
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Apr 18, 2013
Danny Baker considers some tunnel-based archive footage and endeavours to give a quick brush up on these mysterious, subterranean realms.
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Apr 18, 2013
Danny Baker considers some tunnel-based archive footage and endeavours to give a quick brush up on these mysterious, subterranean realms.
Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Apr 25, 2013
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!
Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: May 2, 2013
Danny Baker turns his attention to Britain's towers, those soaring structures that loom loftily above us but about which little is known.
Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: May 9, 2013
Danny Baker ponders the British factory - the products, the people, the bosses and what happens when the hooter sounds and the tools are downed.
Episode: 2x01 | Airdate: Feb 27, 2014
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.
Episode: 2x02 | Airdate: Mar 6, 2014
Danny Baker delves through the archives to look at statues. Featuring Winston Churchill, Emmeline Pankhurst, John Noakes and King Kong.
Episode: 2x03 | Airdate: Mar 13, 2014
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.
Episode: 2x04 | Airdate: Mar 20, 2014
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.
Episode: 2x05 | Airdate: Mar 27, 2014
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.
Episode: 2x06 | Airdate: Apr 3, 2014
Danny Baker dons the mortar board in a whistle-stop archival romp through our education system.