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Lord of The Rings: The Rings of Power Ep 1 “Elven Kings Under The Sky” Season 2

Canals: The Making of a Nation
1/6 Engineering
Liz McIvor starts this 2015 series in the 'appening Pennines to talk about the early years.

Bad Sisters.
Season 1
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Re-engineering Life: The Next Frontiers in Space
Fareed Zakaria takes a break from pretending to be a centrist by talking to two lady scientists about gene-editing with Crispr, and then about developments in AI. Both grim in their own ways.

Lord of The Rings: The Rings of Power Ep 2 “Where the Stars are Strange” Season 2

Faking It: Tears of a Crime - Fred Talbot
How an Altrincham-based geography teacher got up to no good, and then became regionally/nationally famous as a pratfalling weatherman, and then found his victims had long memories after all. His "no comment" policy in interviews was so gormless you wonder why his lawyer either suggested it or went along with it.

(03-09-2024 13:36 )Doddle Wrote:  Canals: The Making of a Nation
1/6 Engineering
Liz McIvor starts this 2015 series in the 'appening Pennines to talk about the early years.

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2/6 Geology
Genuinely fascinating, as Liz moved to the Kennet & Avon, and John Rennie, but crucially the story of William Smith, who used the construction of one canal branch to test theories on geology, so that in 1799 he published theories on strata (the layers of rock, lime, clay, etc beneath all our feet), and in 1815 published a national map to the same effect. Thereafter people would know where to dig to find coal etc, which would have been a boon to the Industrial Revolution. Smith is therefore probably one of the most unsungest heroes in our history (or a total tit if you want to be "green" about it).

Lord of The Rings: The Rings of Power Ep 3 “The Eagle and the Sceptre” Season 2

Wendy Craig: All the Laughs & More
Decent profile of the talented film actress & sitcom legend, who also wrote a few episodes with her husband.

(04-09-2024 21:30 )Doddle Wrote:  Canals: The Making of a Nation
2/6 Geology
Genuinely fascinating, as Liz moved to the Kennet & Avon, and John Rennie, but crucially the story of William Smith, who used the construction of one canal branch to test theories on geology, so that in 1799 he published theories on strata (the layers of rock, lime, clay, etc beneath all our feet), and in 1815 published a national map to the same effect. Thereafter people would know where to dig to find coal etc, which would have been a boon to the Industrial Revolution. Smith is therefore probably one of the most unsungest heroes in our history (or a total tit if you want to be "green" about it).

C: TMoaN
3/6 Capitalism
How the Grand Junction was built to link Birmingham and London, and help establish Brentford and Paddington, until later the railways meant it was game over.