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  • What They Really Mean For You

    Electric Cars

    Broadcast
    2023 (59 mins)

    Cars are an essential part of life for many of us. But new petrol and diesel cars will be banned from sale in 2030 to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Electric cars are selling fast, but are not without...

  • What They Really Mean For You

    Heat Pumps

    Broadcast
    2023 (62 mins)

    How we heat our homes is set to radically change as the government phases out gas boilers. But can changing the technology we use every day help us reduce greenhouse gases and stop climate change? BBC...

  • Horizon - Ten Things You Need To Know About the Future

    Ten Things You Need To Know About the Future

    Broadcast
    2017 (59 mins)

    This episode of Horizon looks at the issues that will change the way we live our lives in the future. Rather than relying on the minds of science fiction writers mathematician Hannah Fry delves into the data...

  • City of the Future - 50 Years On

    City of the Future - 50 Years On

    Broadcast
    2017 (59 mins)

    Is Milton Keynes a soulless place or a utopian dream? It might be famous as the home of roundabouts and concrete cows but it’s also one of the most ambitious experiments ever in social engineering. The...

  • Bang Goes The Theory Series 8

    Trains

    Broadcast
    2014 (29 mins)

    HS2 may be the most exciting news in the world of Railways, but by the time it’s built the existing system may well have to cope with twice the number of passengers it does today. The team will look at the...

  • Bang Goes The Theory Series 6

    Episode 7

    Broadcast
    2012 (29 mins)

    In the latest of the series Jem dreams of flying under his own power by pedalling a homemade plane into the air. He sets out to discover why muscles get tired, and to see if he can boost his own using...

  • What Britain Buys and Sells in a Day

    Episode 1 - Fruit and Veg

    In the first episode of this brand-new, three-part series, presenters Ed Balls, Ade Adepitan and Cherry Healey delve into the hectic world of Britain’s imports and exports. As our trading relationships...

  • What Britain Buys and Sells in a Day

    Episode 2 - Seafood

    This week Ed Balls, Ade Adpeitan and Cherry Healey look at seafood - a commodity the UK buys and sells in huge quantities. Surprisingly, the fish caught off British shores is largely dispatched abroad as...

  • What Britain Buys and Sells in a Day

    Episode 3 - Cars

    Ed is in Southampton, at one of Britain’s largest ports to see our biggest export market - cars. The industry employs over 850,000 people, which is more than the populations of Glasgow or Manchester. No...