S04E06: Royal Institute Special | Local Heroes

S01E01: South West | Local Heroes

Adam Hart-Davis who looks at heroes who are often unsung pioneers of science and invention. Including Sarah Guppy, William Watts, Humphry D...

S01E02: South | Local Heroes

Bicycling scientist Adam Hart-Davis recreates the world's first powered flight, 50 years before Wright Brothers, by John Stringfellow, lace trad...

S01E03: Scotland | Local Heroes

Bicycling scientist Adam Hart-Davis looks at pioneers of science and invention. Includes the pocket calculator, kaleidoscopes, weighing the e...

S01E04: Midlands | Local Heroes

Adam Hart-Davis who looks at local heroes of science and invention. Including John Barber, Matthew Boulton, William Withering, William Murdoc...

S01E05: Northern Ireland | Local Heroes

Adam Hart-Davis who looks at local heroes of science and invention. Including John Boyd Dunlop, William Coppin, Rev George William Ga...

S01E06: North West | Local Heroes

Host Adam Hart-Davis discovers the connection between botany and Wordsworth the poet when he learns about his friend, John Gough , a local ...

S02E01: Devon | Local Heroes

Adam Hart-Davis's search for Britain's greatest scientific pioneers is in Devon, where he looks at the legacy of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Henry ...

S02E02: Scotland | Local Heroes

Adam Hart-Davis goes in search of pioneers of science and invention in Scotland. He investigates the achievements of Alexander Bain, Charles ...

S02E03: East | Local Heroes

Adam Hart-Davis's search for pioneers of science and invention takes him to the East of England. He finds out about Benjamin Wiseman Jr, who pate...

S02E04: North East | Local Heroes

Adam Hart-Davis's search for Britain's greatest scientific pioneers is in North-East England, where he looks at the work of Charles Algerno...

S02E05: Wales | Local Heroes

Adam Hart-Davis recalls heroes of science and invention in Wales. Amongst others, he reveals the inventions of Harry Grindell Matthews and Richa...

S02E06: South East | Local Heroes

Adam Hart-Davis's search for Britain's greatest scientific pioneers is in South-East England, where he looks at the work of Hertha Ayrton, ...

S03E01: Cornwall | Local Heroes

Adam visits south-west England, where his subjects include William Murdock, who devised the world's first mechanical vehicle and also came up...

S03E02: London | Local Heroes

This week he visits London, where he builds his own submarine to illustrate the achievements of Cornelus Drebbel, who rowed underwater from Wes...

S03E03: Egypt | Local Heroes

Adam Hart-Davis travels to Egypt in search of the earliest heroes of science. Using a drinks can and a stove, he recreates Hero of Alexandria's ...

S03E04: Italy | Local Heroes

Adam Hart-Davis visits southern Italy, home to the greatest scientists of the ancient world. In Syracuse, he recreates Archimedes' famous ''eure...

S03E05: South | Local Heroes

Adam Hart-Davis continues his search for unsung heroes of science when he cycles around the south of England. On a stop-off in Surrey, he uses a...

S03E06: Ireland | Local Heroes

Adam Hart-Davis cycles around Ireland to rediscover some scientific milestones. He looks at how John Tyndall found the sky was blue, how Charl...

S03E07: Potteries | Local Heroes

Adam Hart-Davis searches for unsung heroes of science on a trip to the Potteries, Staffordshire. Using a few pipes, a ribbon and an air pump...

S03E08: Merseyside | Local Heroes

Adam relives his childhood love of Meccano, invented by Frank Hornby, before moving on to celebrate the work of other scientists and innova...

S02E04: North East | Local Heroes

Adam Hart-Davis's search for Britain's greatest scientific pioneers is in North-East England, where he looks at the work of Charles Algerno...

The Clock That Changed the World | A History of the World

Adam Hart-Davis tells the story of the amazing 280-year-old wooden clock, made in Lincolnshire, that changed timeke...

03: The Aztecs, Maya and Incas | What the Ancients Did for Us

Roving reporter Hermione Cockburn describes Aztec, Mayan and Incan inventions, including chocolate, suspension ...

20: Anglesey | Hart-Davis on History

Adam Hart-Davis and Jayne Constantinis visit Anglesey, featuring a look at the Menai Straits, Welsh music, Beaumaris Castle, Amlwch Port...

02: The Applyance of Science | What the Stuarts Did for Us

Hart-Davis travels around Britain to introduce the idea and inventions of the Stuart Period in science and enginee...

01: Seeying the Worlde | What The Tudors Did For Us

The development of scientific instruments gave the Tudors new worlds to explore, both on land and on sea. And did the Eng...

04: Crime and Punishment | What the Victorians Did For Us

Adam Hart-Davis investigates the Victorian innovations that left a lasting impression on British society. In this p...

01: Life of Luxury | What the Romans Did for Us

Adam Hart-Davis investigates the lavish lifestyles of the Romans, visiting the sumptuous villa at Fishbourne, the famous bath...

09: River Thames | The History Hour

Adam Hart-Davis explores the history of the River Thames in Surrey, and looks at how newspapers can be used for historical research.