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Some lesser known (and some well known) scientists of the industrial age are profiled by the wonderful TV show "Local Heroes": https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_Heroes_(British_TV_ser...

Great show if you can find it. Another show, Connections, is much more popular, and traces the family tree of various inventions. Again, highly recommended!



Someone here recently linked Connections episodes available on the Internet Archive and it's been great to watch episodes.

https://archive.org/details/bbc-connections-1978


We watched Connections in High School science. I don't remember much about HS, but I will never forget James Burke.


Another great show by the same guy: The Day The Universe Changed.


We all watched local heroes at my house, Adam Hart Davies did such a good job of making the topics approachable, even for kids.

Hard to believe it's a quarter of a century since it finished.


Likewise. Adam should be a national treasure.

I miss all those relatively unflashy science programmes. They all have to be a bit over the top and made into rather showy but shallow “event” TV, probably featuring Brian Cox on a mountain or in a desert for some reason.


There are reasonable concerns that might not be a good idea - https://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/oct/20/jimmy-savile-b...

Hart-Davis has afaik been “cancelled” for some years.


Oh ffs, not another one.




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