Local Heroes (1996)
Local Heroes is an award-winning science and history television programme in the United Kingdom, presented by Adam Hart-Davis. Made by Screenhouse Productions and directed by Paul Bader, it was first aired on the ITV regional network Yorkshire Television in 1991. In the show, Adam Hart-Davis, dressed in the pink and yellow cycling clothes that would became the show's trademark, rode around the YTV region on a matching pink and yellow bicycle, stopping in a particular area to tell the stories of scientists that lived or were born there. These stories were embellished by experiments, performed on the street by Hart-Davis, generally using bits of wood and junk from a trailer on his bike.
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Episodes
- 1 1. Devon and Cornwall1998-03-02First of an eight-part series in which Adam Hart-Davis cycles around the country in search of the unsung heroes of science. He visits south-west England, where his subjects includ
- 2 2. London1998-03-09Adam Hart-Davis cycles around the country in search of the unsung heroes of science. This week he visits London, where he builds his own submarine to illustrate the achievements o
- 3 3. Egypt1998-03-16In the first of two programmes to mark Science Week, Adam Hart-Davis travels to Egypt in search of the earliest heroes of science. Using a drinks can and a stove, he recreates Hero
- 4 4. Sicily1998-03-19In the second programme for Science Week that traces the origins of modern science, Adam Hart-Davis visits southern Italy, home to the greatest scientists of the ancient world. I
- 5 5. South1998-03-23Adam Hart-Davis continues his search for unsung heroes of science when he cycles around the south of England. On a stop-off in Surrey, he uses a tin of tuna to explain the physics
- 6 6. Ireland1998-03-26Adam Hart-Davis cycles around Ireland to rediscover some scientific milestones. He looks at how John Tyndall found the sky was blue, how Charles Parsons used a telescope to see spi
- 7 7. N & W Birmingham1998-03-30Adam Hart-Davis searches for unsung heroes of science on a trip to the Potteries, Staffordshire. Using a few pipes, a ribbon and an air pump, he demonstrates the early ideas for a
- 8 8. North West1998-04-06Adam Hart-Davis takes a ferry across the Mersey to celebrate the work of the North West's unsung heroes of science in the last of the current series. He relives his childhood love
- 9 9. South of England1998-09-07Adam Hart Davis begins another cycling tour in search of more tales of pioneering inventors in an eight-part fourth series. Hart-Davis begins by exploding balloons of hydrogen and
- 10 10. Edinburgh1998-09-14This week Hart-Davis makes the journey to Elgin, re-creating the moment when Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, and to the site where James Watt carried out his work on
- 11 11. The Netherlands1998-09-21In Delft, Hart-Davis profiles the draper who was the first person to see bacteria through a microscope and the book-keeper whose gravity experiments predated Galileo's by four year
- 12 12. North of England1998-09-28Adam Hart-Davis recalls William Sturgeon's inventing the electric motor and James Nasmyth's steam hammer; he also sees Joseph Paxton's inspiration for Crystal Palace and looks at t
- 13 13. Gloucestershire1998-10-05Adam Hart-Davis recalls the work of Edwin Beard Budding, who invented the lawnmower, and focuses on William Henry Fox Talbot, the father of modern photography. Plus James Bradley,
- 14 14. Heroines1998-10-12
- 15 15. East Midlands1998-10-19Adam Hart-Davis cycles to Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire to find out about this week's heroes. They include Frank Whittle, who invented the jet engine, and Robert Bakewell, the
- 16 16. West of Scotland1998-10-26Adam Hart-Davis concludes the series by visiting western Scotland. There he learns about John Logie Baird, inventor of the television, Lord Kelvin, who established absolute zero, a
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