Simple coding and algorithms | Royal Institution Christmas Lectures

S06E06: Chairs | Inside the Factory

Gregg Wallace visits the Ercol factory in Buckinghamshire to follow the production of a Windsor chair. Meanwhile, Cherry Healey investiga...

Dyson Farm | Rick Stein's Food Stories

On a cutting-edge farm run by James Dyson, Rick meets robots picking strawberries that grow all year round.

Sourcing and processing timber | Inside the Factory

Cherry investigates the source of wood used for making Windsor chairs, and the process it undergoes to make it ready for ...

02: Away | Everyday Miracles: The Genius of Sofas, Stockings and Scanners

Mark Miodownik looks at how materials have enabled us to indulge our curiosity about the world arou...

S02E04: Bicycles | Inside the Factory

Gregg Wallace visits Britain's largest bicycle factory, which produces 150 folding bikes every day, and joins a production line to make...

05: Objects of Desire | The Genius of Design

After the drab days of the late 70s, an explosion of wild creativity defined the 'designer decades' of the 80s and early 90s.

S07E02: Buses | Inside the Factory

Gregg Wallace gets exclusive access to a factory that builds red London buses, while Cherry Healey visits a bus windscreen factory and Rut...

01: Ghosts in the Machine | The Genius of Design

The story of the birth of industrial design, from celebrated names to the work of anonymous designers responsible for prosai...

Creating moulds | James May's Man Lab

James re-forms some impractical kitchen items into the perfect lemon squeezer in his very own foundry.

S05E02: Wax Jackets | Inside the Factory

Gregg Wallace is in South Shields at a clothing factory where they produce 650 waxed jackets a day.

The beginning of 3D Printing | Newsnight

The beginning of commercially available 3D printers.

01: Home | Everyday Miracles: The Genius of Sofas, Stockings and Scanners

Mark Miodownik shows that some of the everyday objects that are often taken for granted are in fact...

02: Designs for Living | The Genius of Design

In the 1920s and 30s, with the world at the tipping point between two global wars, design suggested dramatically different idea...

03: Blueprints for War | The Genius of Design

A look at the rival war machines designed and built during World War II, and how definitions of good design shift dramatically ...

04: Better Living Through Chemistry | The Genius of Design

In the 1950s and 60s, plastic, combined with the miracles of electronic miniaturisation, allowed designers to offe...

3D printing | Click

A look at the future application of 3D printing.

A Celestial Projector Is Brought Back to Life | The Repair Shop on the Road

The team help a charity get their bus on the road, Julyan Wallis brings a banjolele back to life,...

Applied Art and Design | GCSE Bitesize Revision

Programme to support this double award vocational GCSE, covering a diverse range of art and design areas from working to a co...

Art and Design | Bitesize Secondary

Series supporting the Creative Arts diploma, focusing on fashion, textile, graphic and product design. It looks at areas as diverse as th...

Brass metal work | Money for Nothing

An old brass fireplace front is turned into beautiful brass bottle openers.