Tom Scott
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Tom Scott: England
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Episode 131 min2026-03-23
I Helped Break a 142-Year-Old Bell, and That’s Okay
In Leicestershire, at the John Taylor Bell Foundry, there's fire, sledgehammer swinging, and metal hotter than a volcano. Also, several questions about cheese.
Episode 226 min2026-03-30
They Can Fly 200 Miles With No Fuel. Here’s How.
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.
Episode 328 min2026-04-06
I Missed the Evidence. Can You Spot It?
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.
Episode 420 min2026-04-13
These People Walk Towards Mining Disasters
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.
Episode 528 min2026-04-20
These mannequins can bleed.
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.)
Episode 623 min2026-04-27
I finally got to drive Yorkshire’s tiny boats
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.
Episode 716 min2026-05-04
If you found candy with my name in it, here's why
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.
Episode 824 min2026-05-11
Oh no, I sympathized with a Victorian arms dealer
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".
Episode 920 min2026-05-18
The mist that keeps the Tyne Tunnels safe
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.
Episode 1026 min2026-05-25
This man stops people drowning in quicksand
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.