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- A uniquely 'Billy' approach to biography - part shaggy dog tale, part self-portrait, with a lot of jokes, personal archive and a few famous faces thrown in between.
- Drain the Oceans solves one of the world's great mysteries - the identity of the Loch Ness monster. Using comparisons with the deepest lake on Earth - Lake Baikal in Russian Siberia - combined with military-grade scanning technology and a sonar curtain drawn across its entire surface, the plug is pulled on Scotland's famous loch. As the waters drain away, much more than a monster is revealed.
- Chris and Peter explore the Borders countryside, driving from Edinburgh to Hadrian's Wall they learn about a pioneering female car engineer, meet a motorsport legend and take a ride with a rally driver.
- Steered by his 1936 Bradshaw's Guide, Michael Portillo is in Northumbria en route to the Highlands.
- Jill joins bellringers in Hexham, learns about Roman links to Christianity, starts the Jedburgh Hand 'Ba, learns about Easter Eggs, visits an 18th-century bathing area carved into rock and meets a group of Christian dancers in Lindisfarne.
- In the 2nd of a three-part series, Guy Martin makes a visit to the 'National Grid' HQ that controls the UK energy capacity, every single second, minute, hour, day and week throughout the year. Guy is put in charge of keeping the country's lights on by controlling the power created for the national grid. Next up, Guy visits the 'Defence School of Transport', a driving school for the armed forces to find out how they are reducing their bills with the aid of solar panels and new electric utility vehicles. The other great renewable source of electricity is wind. Guy visits a factory that makes wind turbines with each blade 81 meters long. To see the fruits of his labour, Guy has to undertake 'Underwater Helicopter Escape Training' before he can set foot in a helicopter to head out to the North Sea and visit the world's biggest off-shore wind farm. Guy's final trip is to Scotland to check-out the 'National Grid's most vital energy storage solutions, 'Pump storage hydro-electric power station'.
- Lulu travels to Glasgow to uncover the story of her Catholic grandfather and Protestant grandmothers love affair across the sectarian divide.
- The students go to the remote Scottish Highlands where they learn the survival skills required for life in the field. They are schooled in some of the same techniques which prepared a group of agents to halt Hitler's atomic ambitions.
- This edition focuses on the highlands and islands of Scotland, home of the Highland Games, the Highland Cow, Britain's only private army, Britain's shortest scheduled flight and a quite famous monster.
- Michael explores the industrial heartland of Glasgow and its mighty River Clyde before taking the ferry to the island of Cumbrae. With his early 20th-century Bradshaw's guide in hand, he is put to work behind the scenes at Glasgow's circular subway, explores the future of shipbuilding on the Clyde and hears how one woman led a successful mass protest against high rents in the city's notorious tenements. On the island of Cumbrae, Michael investigates a forgotten Scottish expedition to the Antarctic and discovers the beauties of intertidal marine life.