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Season 1

  • S01E01 British Tunnels

    • April 18, 2013
    • BBC Four

    Danny Baker considers some tunnel-based archive footage and endeavours to give a quick brush up on these mysterious, subterranean realms.

  • S01E02 British Bridges

    • April 25, 2013
    • BBC Four

    Danny Baker endeavours to present the definitive guide to Britain's bridges in 30 minutes, armed only with a few VHS tapes and some hamfisted research. Buckle up!

  • S01E03 British Towers

    • May 2, 2013
    • BBC Four

    Danny Baker turns his attention to Britain's towers, those soaring structures that loom loftily above us but about which little is known.

  • S01E04 British Factories

    • May 9, 2013
    • BBC Four

    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! Nice to see him..

Season 2

  • S02E01 Miniature Britain

    • February 27, 2014
    • BBC Four

    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.

  • S02E02 British Statues

    • March 6, 2014
    • BBC Four

    Danny Baker delves through the archives to look at statues. Featuring Winston Churchill, Emmeline Pankhurst, John Noakes and King Kong.

  • S02E03 British Beaches

    • March 13, 2014
    • BBC Four

    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.

  • S02E04 British Woodlands

    • March 20, 2014
    • BBC Four

    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.

  • S02E05 Street Furniture

    • March 27, 2014
    • BBC Four

    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 terrifying Belisha beacon.

  • S02E06 British Schools

    • April 3, 2014
    • BBC Four

    Danny Baker dons the mortar board in a whistle-stop archival romp through our education system.

Additional Specials

  • SPECIAL 0x1 World Cup Brush Up With Danny Baker

    • June 2, 2014
    • BBC Four

    Some sanctuary from the World Cup on BBC FOUR? Not a chance. But wait, there is actually very little football in this archive romp around the periphery of the four-yearly global jamboree. Danny Baker mulls over all the attendant hoopla, rigmarole, folderol and palaver that comes with this most mammoth of modern circuses. Mascots! Managers! Fans! Tickets! Endless hours of TV padding! Creepy Kevin Keegan dolls! The tragic death of Pickles the Dog! That sort of thing