About this season
Tom Scott takes a road trip to every county of England, travelling by car, train, boat, plane, tram, monorail and hovercraft, visiting hidden infrastructure, ancient traditions, and more bells than you might expect.
Episodes (21)
1. I Helped Break a 142-Year-Old Bell, and That’s Okay
Aired 23 March 2026 • 31 min
In Leicestershire, at the John Taylor Bell Foundry, there's fire, sledgehammer swinging, and metal hotter than a volcano. Also, several questions about cheese.
2. They Can Fly 200 Miles With No Fuel. Here’s How.
Aired 30 March 2026 • 26 min
In Rutland, I try to fit an entire county in one camera shot, learn to spot chimneys in the sky, and make a very strange noise. Let's learn about paragliding.
3. I Missed the Evidence. Can You Spot It?
Aired 6 April 2026 • 28 min
At the University of Lincoln's Crime Scene House, where they teach forensic science students in simulated crime scenes, I have a challenge for you.
4. These People Walk Towards Mining Disasters
Aired 13 April 2026 • 20 min
In Nottinghamshire, I join the team at MRS Training and Rescue -- the former Mines Rescue Service -- for an exercise that could have been so much worse.
5. These mannequins can bleed.
Aired 20 April 2026 • 28 min
At Sheffield Hallam University in the West Riding of Yorkshire, I meet the Clinical Simulation team, and deal with some surprisingly animated patients. (Note: includes simulated blood and gore.)
6. I finally got to drive Yorkshire’s tiny boats
Aired 27 April 2026 • 23 min
At Peasholm Park in Scarborough, in the North Riding of Yorkshire, I visit the Naval Warfare, ride with the world's smallest crewed navy, and scare at least two seagulls.
7. If you found candy with my name in it, here's why
Aired 4 May 2026 • 16 min
At the John Bull Rock Factory outside Bridlington, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, I watch as boiling sugar becomes an enormous amount of rock. Also, there's 1990s Dutch happy hardcore.
8. Oh no, I sympathized with a Victorian arms dealer
Aired 11 May 2026 • 24 min
In Northumberland, at the National Trust's Cragside mansion, I visit the former home of the Magician of the North, learn a shocking fact about some lamps, and utter the phrase "it gets worse".
9. The mist that keeps the Tyne Tunnels safe
Aired 18 May 2026 • 20 min
At the Tyne Road Tunnels, just over the border into Durham, I get very wet and cold underneath a river... but not in the way you might expect.
10. This man stops people drowning in quicksand
Aired 25 May 2026 • 26 min
In Westmorland, at Morecambe Bay, I meet the King's Guide to the Sands, walk across a very dangerous stretch of sand, and learn about a centuries-old tradition that's been brought into the 21st century.
11. Pulling the lever is the easy part.
Aired 1 June 2026 • 25 min
In Lancashire, at National Rail's Manchester signalling classroom, I learn why it's very, very rare for trains to collide... and then go to an actual, live signal box to see it for real.
12. Can a 70-year-old telescope still be useful?
Aired 8 June 2026 • 22 min
At Jodrell Bank in Cheshire, I get to fulfill a childhood dream: but more importantly, I ask whether a telescope built in the 1950s can still do useful science.
13. Episode 13
Aired 15 June 2026
14. Episode 14
Aired 22 June 2026
15. Episode 15
Aired 29 June 2026
16. Episode 16
Aired 6 July 2026
17. Episode 17
Aired 13 July 2026
18. Episode 18
Aired 20 July 2026
19. Episode 19
Aired 27 July 2026
20. Episode 20
Aired 3 August 2026
21. Episode 21
Aired 10 August 2026