The Prime Ministers: Ramsay Mcdonald
Nick Robinson looks at how Ramsay MacDonald handled the top job in British politics.
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Nazi Olympic Games of 1936 | Great Continental Railway Journeys
Michael Portillo learns how new rail lines were constructed to transport crowds of spectators to the Nazi Olympic Games of 1936, how a planned boycott by the United States and other European nations failed, and how the success of a black American athlete undermined the Nazi ideology of Aryan superiority.
Heat stored in mines | Great British Railway Journeys
In parkland above the pits en route to Cuningar Loop, he finds Glasgow's geoenergy observatory, where the British Geological Society is researching how mine water heated naturally underground can be harnessed to save energy.