Engineering and Technology, Manufacturing

Last Edited: 25-Sep-2019 A Global British Comedy Collaborative document. Edited by John Lucas
Broadcast source is BBC Radio Four unless otherwise indicated. Recording quality is considered good unless otherwise indicated. 

General Programs

The Digital Human

Date Title Cast Parameters
13-Apr-1998
Isembard Kingdom Brunel – The Reckless Engineer
No credits
[Adam Hart-Davis
produced by Brian King]
28:01, 39416, S
08-Aug-2005
R7:
23-Sep-2010
The Howling Terror Mystery
July 1900 enormous megaphone
Alan Dein
Reading by William Hope and Anrew Wyncot
Produced by Matthew Dodd
28:22, 26601, S
14-Aug-2005
Engineers’ Corner
Why no celebration of engineers in Westminster Abbey?
Ian McMillan
Readers: Robert Pickance and Brian Torfay
Produced by Emma Harding
28:01, 26269, S
12-Apr-2006 to
03-May-2006
Britain’s Modern Brunels
  1. High Speed Travel
  2. Giant Structures
  3. Public Health
  4. Environmental Concerns
Sue Nelson
Produced by Tracy Logan
27:46, 26038, S
28:07, 26361, S
27:54, 26160, S
27:57, 26218, S
21-Aug-2009
How to Write An Instruction Manual
Mark Miodownik
produced by Michelle Martin
28:18, 26543, S
05-Aug-2010
We Were Here: How to Create Your Own Time Capsule
Ian Peacock
produced by Michael Sircom
27:42, 25972, S
31-Jul-2013
07-Aug-2013
14-Aug-2013
Techno Odyssey
  1. Cables
  2. Cash
  3. Cardiac
Paul Farley
Reader Indira Varma, Paul Hilton
Produced by Neil McCarthy
27:41, 25905, S
27:32, 25770, S
27:42, 25922, S
28-May-2014
The Music Factory
Russell Davies
27:42, 25980, S
09-Sep-2014
Build and Be Damned
David Wighton
Producer: Sandra Kanthal
27:46, 26048, S

Chemical Engineering
Date Title Cast Parameters
06-Dec-2004
Bhopal -- An Accident Waiting to Happen
Mark Tully
produced by Sarah Luthwaite 
28:27, 26674, S

Civil Engineering, Structures, Constructions
Date Title Cast Parameters
Discovery
2002
Super Structures
The Boeing Assembly Building
narrated by John Hedges
produced by Dave Serverson
MP4 VIDEO
46:58, 479644, S
06-Apr-2004
Death of the Building Site
Richard Urich
produced by Sandra Keating
28:14, 26470, S
29-Jul-2004 to
26-Aug-2004
--
20-Jul-2006 to
17-Aug-2006
Engineering Solutions
  1. Channel Tunnel Rail Link
  2. Spinnaker Tower, Portsmouth
  3. Heathrow Airport’s Terminal 5
  4. Bridge over the River Usk
  5. Great Yarmouth Offshore Wind Farm
  1. Glendoe, Scotland Hydroelectric Project
  2. Belfast Sewers Project
  3. Milford Haven in Wales Liquid Natural
    Gas terminal
  4. Airbus A380
  5. Tall buildings
Adam Hart Davis
Produced by Sarah Taylor
27:58, 26221, S
27:59, 26236, S
27:49, 28086, S
28:00, 26262, S
27:56, 26194, S

28:11, 26423, S
28:14, 26474, S
27:50, 26099, S
27:49, 26088, S
27:54, 26161, S
12-Sep-2005
Document The Forth Bridge
Mike Thomson
Produced by John Byrne
28:01, 26272, S
UK Channel 5
2005
Megastructures --
The World's Most Famous Bridge
narrated by David Vickery
written and produced by Julie Edwards
MP4 VIDEO
36:27, 371802, S
02-Apr-2006
15-Dec-2006
Bridge – Brunel’s Clifton Suspension Bridge
Poem by Libby Houston   
Produced by Sarah Davies
14:04, 13201, S
UK TV4
Jul-2006?
Seven Wonders of the Industrial World:
  • The Brooklyn Bridge
  • The Panama Canal
  • Hoover Dam
narrated by Robert Lindsay
  • written and directed by Paul Wilmshurst
  • produced and directed by Philip Smith
  • written and directed by Mark Everest
AVI VIDEO

46:11, 474084
46:19, 477102
46:11, 304361
16-Jul-2007 to
30-Jul-2007
The Secret Life of Reservoirs
  1. Plumbing the Landscape
  2. Conservation
  3. From Reservoir to Tap
Hermione Cockburn
Produced by Monise Durani
28:02, 26284, S
28:03, 26307, S
27:55, 26173, S
11-Dec-2007
One Hundred Years of Concrete --
Oscar Niemeyer
Jonathan Glancey
Produced by Marc Richards
27:43, 25996, S
18-Dec-2007
Andy Cave’s Expedition Underground
Thirlmere Aqueduct
Andy Cave
Produced by Janet Graves
28:15, 26495, S
16-Jan-2009
Time and Tide: The Severn Barrage Project
Miriam O’Reilly
Produced by John Byrne
27:55, 26186, S
27-Jan-2010
Bridging the Gap --
A sound portrait of the Tyne Bridge
Chris Watson
produced by Sarah Blount
27:48, 26078, S
14-Oct-2011
The Bridge --
The Transporter Bridge on Teesside

Nigel Thompson
produced by Faith Lawrence
27:36, 25833, S

Electrical Engineering, Electronics
See also Radio and Television

Date Title Cast Parameters
20-Dec-2004 Speak Spirit Speak
Electronic Voice Phenomena
Ken Hollings
Produced by John Calver
28:16, 26502, S
23-May-2005
R7:
21-Sep-2010
Cashier Number Six Please
Automated Voices
Emma Clarke
Produced by Peter McCue
28:46, 26973, S
28-Nov-2005
A Wire around the World
The first international communications system –
telegraph cable
Paul Davies
Produced by Martin Redfern
28:01, 26279, S
30-Nov-2007
Speak on the Dotted Line
Rory Bremner
Produced by Linus Jones
27:55, 26179, S
30-Sep-2009
Calling Hereford
the world's largest earth satellite station
Hugh Sykes
produced by John Byrne
27:32,25829, S
26-Jul-2013
Klatt's Last Tapes --
the definitive history of speech synthesis
Presenter: Lucy Hawking
Producer: Julian Mayers
27:44, 25955, S

Mechanical Engineering
Date Episode Title Cast Parameters
         

Sanitary, Municipal and Utility Engineering, Waste Management
Date Title Cast Parameters
17-Aug-1998 to
31-Aug-1998
The Influence of Effluent
  1. London
  2. Calcutta
  3. Boston
no credits
27:48, 38925, S
28:08, 39573, S
27:02, 38033, S
24-Nov-2008 to
28-Nov-2008
A Load of Rubbish
Ian Marchant
produced by Jolyon Jenkins
14:08, 13257, S
14:10, 13287, S
14:00, 13136, S
13:58, 13103, S
14:03, 13174, S
14-May-2009
The Landfill Designers
John Thackaray
produced by Nick Kettles and Joe Meek
28:20, 26564, S
25-May-2012 Mapping Britain's Underworld
Adam Hart-Davis
Producer: Sara Parker
27:54, 26120, S
07-Oct-2009
The Story of Scrap Metal
Martin Wainwright
produced by Janet Graves
27:55, 26180, S
28-May-2010
Skip
Alys Fowler
Producer: Neil Cargill
27:46, 25736, S
08-Apr-2014
Rubbish: The Great Waste Crisis
Chris Mullin
Producer: Jonathan Brunert
36:53, 34508, S

Manufacturing, Everyday Products

Fred Dibnah's Made in Britain

Date Title Cast Parameters
25-Dec-2000
The Story of the Fork

27:41, 51915, S
01-Jul-2003 to
29-Jul-2003
Substance: a History of Modern Synthetic Materials
  1. Formica
  2. Scotch Brand Cellophane Tape
  3. Teflon
  4. Astroturf
  5. Kevlar
Wayne Hemingway
Producer: Tamsin Hughes

14:29, 6793, S
14:14, 6673. S
14:30, 6800, S
14:17, 6698, S
14:12, 14:12, s
12-Apr-2005
01-Aug-2007
Ouch! Men and Shaving
Brian Perkins
Produced by Leonidia Krushilnitsky
14:56, 14011, S
27-Oct-2004
The Secret Life of Phone Numbers
Ian Peacock
Produced by Alan Dolby
27:57, 26216, S
06-Dec-2004
27-Mar-2005
Neigbourhood Watch
What Your Postcode Says about You
Alan Dein
Produced by Mark Smalley
28:03, 26304, S
28-Aug-2012 The Lifecycle of a Bullet Caroline Wyatt
Producer: Lucy Proctor
36:40, 34316, S
03-May-2005
Daisy Daisy
The Story of detachable tires and tandems
Julie Welch
Readings by Barry Morse
Produced by Vernie Samuel
14:13, 13335, S
22-Jul-2005
If the Shoe Fits
Abandoned Shoes
Kim Normanton
Produced by Matt Thompson
27:51, 26121, S
25-Jun-2005
On the Dotted Line
The history of signatures
Tristram Hunt
Produced by Thomas Morris
28:04, 26251, S
09-Sep-2005
Engineering My Sole
Physics and shoe design
Connie St Louis
Produced by Helen Sharpe
14:03, 13179, S
13-Mar-2006 to
17-Mar-2006
Chute
  1. Not Just for Fun
  2. Elephants and Burgers
  3. Pneumatic Chutes
  4. Escape Chutes
  5. At the End of the Day
Dylan Winter
Produced by Neil George
13:49, 12955, S
13:37, 12777, S
13:57, 13085, S
14:07, 13243, S
13:40, 12819, S
06-Jul-2007
Mirror, Mirror
Nina Perry
28:03, 26309, S
27-Jul-2009
Biomimicry: Inspired by Nature
Trevor Cox
Producer: Fiona Roberts
27:51, 26111, S
31-Oct-2009
Now Wash Your Hands
The story of Izal Medicated toilet paper
Sally Goldsmith
produced by Frances Burns
27:33, 25838, S
02-Jun-2010
The Death-Ray in Your Pocket: 50 Years of Lasers
Hermione Cockburn
Producer: Mike Hally
28:01, 26268, S
27-Nov-2010
Me and My Mobile
Dom Joly
Producer: Anna Horsbrugh-Porter
27:32, 25815, S
2003
R7:
19-Jan-2011
A Shared Vision  -
recycling  old spectacles in Zanzibar
John Hegley
27:49, 26089, S
21-Nov-2011 to
25-Nov-2011
Stephen Fry on the Phone
  1. Creating the Network
  2. From Car Phone to Executive Brick
  3. The Accidental Discovery of Text
  4. Shrinking the Handset
  5. The Chips inside Smartphones
Stephen Fry
Producer: Anna Buckley
13:11, 12347, S
13:11, 12344, S
13:15,
13:28,
13:13,        
03-Jun-2013
Looking for Luddites
Bill Thompson
Producer: Andrew Green
27:51, 26115, S
30-Apr-2014
Voices from Our Industrial Past
Emma Griffin
Producer: Melissa FitzGerald
27:46, 25989, S
CBC R1 IDEAS
17-Oct-2011
The Screw that Changed the World
Karl Turner
produced by Mary Link

53:49, 50348, S
CBC R1 IDEAS
06-Dec-2011

Silver And Exact

Karen Virag
produced by Dave Redel

53:49, 50345, S