Local Heroes

Adam Hart-Davis cycles round the UK, telling the stories of each region's pioneering scientists and inventors

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Latest Episodes

  • Season 2 Episode 4: North East

    Inventor of a seemingly unpickable lock Joseph Bramah, volcano photographer Tempest Anderson, windscreen wiper inventor Gladstone Adams and motion picture pioneer Louis Le Prince

  • Season 2 Episode 3: East

    Adam Hart-Davis cycles to East Anglia, where he tests a prisoner-punishing treadmill and recreates a gadget that enables even the poorest artists to produce masterpieces

  • Season 2 Episode 2: Scotland

    Adam Hart-Davis makes his own mackintosh in John O'Groats, visits the site of the world's first colour photograph, and runs an engine on fuel made from haggis and neeps

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