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- A Deep Reserve soldier is awoken from stasis and finds the world ruined by war.
- With the inauguration of the Thames Water Ring Main came the call for a licensed software program to teach students about its operation and water treatment process. Enter James Pond, codename Robocod, on license from Millennium Interactive. James and his friend Ronnie the Raindrop will swim underneath London together, illustrating the operation of the Ring Main through a series of basic action sequences. Following each individual section, James Pond will join the player in the classroom for a quick, multiple-choice lesson about the topic at hand. The second game of the pack, Running Water, is a real-world simulation intended for older students.
- Auntie Mabel and Pippin are buying some tricks for a children's party, including a fake poo made of plastic. When they get home, Auntie Mabel notices Pippin has made a poo on the path outside her front door. She cleans it up and puts it down the lavatory. She decides to follow Pippin's poo, to find out where the dirty water goes and explores an underground sewer. Auntie Mabel and Pippin fly in Spotty Plane to visit a sewage treatment plant. They see how water is cleaned and returned to the river and how solid waste can be treated and used as fertilizer to be spread on fields. Back home again, Pippin tricks Auntie Mabel into thinking the fake poo is real.
- Crapper and Sons run a landfill site that manages 200 trucks of waste a day. At Marylebone station, cleaners fight against a never-ending tide of rubbish.
- In his own capital, Britton Griff starts contemplating how London continuously grew from a new Roman town to Europe's single-most prominent true metropolis. He visits architectural and archaeological remains of its long and eminent past, and mires at quaint traditions, while pointing out some major changes. Several types of center take center stage, such as Buckingham Palace. The City remains the financial heart of Europe, the link between Wall Street and Asia.
- Dom works with one of the country's biggest water companies. He traces the flow of this precious resource from the reservoir to the streets and into our homes and businesses, before finding out what we do with our waste-water.
- The team present a feast of Italian food favourites - from high-end mozzarella to the story of gelato. The saucy secrets behind pasta shapes. And why are so many tinned tomatoes Italian?
- Can eating too many poppy seeds make you fail a drugs test? Kate learns the consequences of tipping cooking oil down the drain. Plus: ancient grain bread.