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Series 2: 6. British Schools
Danny Baker dons the mortar board in a whistle-stop archival romp through our education system.
04-10-2016
BBC 4
Series 2: 5. Street Furniture
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 ...
03-10-2016
BBC 4
Series 2: 4. British Woodlands
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.
28-09-2016
BBC 4
Series 2: 3. British Beaches
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.
27-09-2016
BBC 4
Series 2: 2. British Statues
Danny Baker delves through the archives to look at statues. Featuring Winston Churchill, Emmeline Pankhurst, John Noakes and King Kong.
26-09-2016
BBC 4
Series 2: 1. Miniature Britain
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.
21-09-2016
BBC 4
Series 1: 4. British Factories
Danny Baker ponders the British factory - the products, the people, the bosses and what happens when the hooter sounds and the tools are downed. Sir Bruce Forsyth even pops by! ...
20-09-2016
BBC 4
Series 1: 3. British Towers
Danny Baker turns his attention to Britain's towers, those soaring structures that loom loftily above us but about which little is known.
09-08-2015
BBC 4
Series 1: 2. British Bridges
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!
02-08-2015
BBC 4
Series 1: 1. British Tunnels
Danny Baker considers some tunnel-based archive footage and endeavours to give a quick brush up on these mysterious, subterranean realms.
30-07-2015
BBC 4