All episodes
Saturday, 15 August 2009
- 12:15 Foraging: onion weed
- 12:30 History of the zip
- 12:50 Non-melting chocolate
- 12:55 Hi-tech chocolate
- 1:15 World's biggest gambling den
- 1:30 Tech news: music downloading
- 1:45 Tracking your rubbish
- 1:55 Crustacean colourings
Saturday, 8 August 2009
- 12:15 Orange juice
- 12:50 NYC calorie counters
- 1:15 Cheaper cellphone calls?
- 1:30 Mead-making with Leon Havill
- 1:55 Distracting ringtones
Saturday, 1 August 2009
- 12:15 Dumpster diving: swimming in skips
- 12:20 Chris Anderson: Free
- 12:40 Free internet in Taranaki?
- 12:50 Fancy Fast Food
- 1:10 Italy: gondoliers and drinking laws
- 1:30 Fresh: A Perishable History
- 1:50 Expired Food
Saturday, 25 July 2009
- 12:15 Human powered home
- 12:45 Tour de France 2009: sponsorship
- 12:55 Fingerprints
- 1:10 Hazelnuts
- 1:25 Tech news
- 1:40 What cost fast internet?
- 1:55 India: ID cards and cheap cars
Saturday, 18 July 2009
- 12:15 Pie history
- 12:45 Password masking
- 1:15 Uncontacted Amazon tribes
- 1:30 Foraging: sorrel
- 1:45 Tour de France 2009: rest days and radio bans
Saturday, 11 July 2009
- 12:15 Product lives
- 12:45 Diamond city
- 1:15 Tour de France 2009: route master
- 1:25 Gadget teardowns
- 1:35 Eco washing machine
- 1:45 Tech news: Google Chrome OS
Saturday, 4 July 2009
- 12:15 Tour de France 2009: preview
- 12:30 Competitive eating
- 12:45 Hot dog history
- 1:15 Nuts: Brazil nut
- 1:30 Internet addresses
- 1:45 Satay sauce
Saturday, 27 June 2009
- 12:15 Cured: Bacon and Ham
- 12:45 Tech news: Smart power meters
- 1:15 Japanese masculinity crisis
- 1:30 Egg test: Caged or free range?
- 1:50 Sahara solar power
Saturday, 20 June 2009
- 12:15 Inside the ATM
- 12:40 Bank cards: chip and pin
- 12:55 Periodic tables
- 1:15 Foraging: chickweed
- 1:30 Spanish drivers and shark-meat
- 1:45 Buyer's guide to pressure cookers
Saturday, 13 June 2009
- 12:15 What credit card companies know
- 12:30 Meccano collector
- 12:50 Italy: fizzy tap water and troubled tailors
- 1:10 Expired medicines
- 1:45 Tech news: the Pirate Party and Microsoft's Bing
Saturday, 6 June 2009
- 12:10 Haggling: how to pay less for more
- 12:55 Star anise and swine flu
- 1:15 Venezuela: the people's mobile phone
- 1:30 Buyer's guide to sewing machines
- 1:45 Air-powered cars
Saturday, 30 May 2009
- 12:10 Peanuts: crunchy or smooth?
- 12:55 The Restaurant of the Future: scoffing for science
- 1:10 Foraging: puha and dandelions
- 1:30 Food carts: Street food New York style
- 1:45 Tech news: Vodafone's Twitter blunder
Saturday, 23 May 2009
- 12:10 Sex, Drugs and Chocolate: the science of pleasure
- 12:30 Old school advertising: Bill-sticking
- 12:45 Free food: foraging in Scotland
- 1:15 Nuts: The Walnut
- 1:30 Tech time: Telecom's new XT mobile phone network
- 1:45 The rebirth of Lego
Saturday, 16 May 2009
- 12:10 Tech time - Google's TV ads, browser wars and Windows 7
- 12:25 A buyer's guide to heat pumps
- 12:40 Rwanda's pro cycling team pedals for Olympic gold
- 12:50 Why most pharmacies stay independently owned
- 1:20 Bagels - boiled, baked and bendy
- 1:40 Industrial tourism, factory visit anyone?
- 1:50 Inventions - cheque books, credit cards and cash registers
Saturday, 9 May 2009
- 12:10 Intro:what's coming up
- 12:15 Writer Jonah Lehrer on"How We Decide"
- 12:35 Can you tell dog food from pate?
- 12:40 Backyard Bee Team: wasps in the hive
- 12:55 Donkey Pong: smells in computer games
- 1:15 Drug smuggling submarines
- 1:25 The boombox: dancing in the streets
- 1:35 Noise-cancelling earphones: keeping noise at bay?
- 1:50 Designing T-shirts using crowdsourcing
Saturday, 2 May 2009
- 12:15 Testing times
- 12:30 Chestnuts
- 12:40 Sounds random
- 12:50 Bee deaths
- 1:15 Digital TV
- 1:35 Slice of history
Saturday, 25 April 2009
- 12:15 Tofu-tastic
- 12:35 Japanese whisky
- 12:50 Kinkajou
- 1:15 Bits and bytes
- 1:30 Havana shop
- 1:50 Pedi-sedate
Saturday, 18 April 2009
- 12:15 Charity collectors
- 12:30 The Viewmaster
- 12:45 Bits and bytes
- 1:15 Time-banking
- 1:30 Bees 16: Varroa Treatment
- 1:45 Robobusiness
Saturday, 4 April 2009
- 12:15 Hair Loss
- 12:50 Wasabi
- 1:15 Google secrets
- 1:35 Smart speed bumps
- 1:45 Tent cities
- 1:50 Pyramid schemes
Saturday, 28 March 2009
- 12:15 Underground economy
- 12:30 In-car GPS
- 12:40 Hacky Sack
- 12:50 Typewriter repair
- 1:10 Pancakes and pikelets
- 1:30 Bees 15: A Taste of Honey
- 1:50 Radio gaga
Saturday, 21 March 2009
- 12:15 HDMI cables
- 12:25 Service Stations
- 12:30 Electric cars
- 12:40 Instant recharge
- 12:50 Foie gras
- 1:10 KenKen
- 1:25 Numerati
- 1:50 Noisy Toys
Saturday, 14 March 2009
- 12:15 Gold farming
- 12:30 Rates of return
- 12:45 Tech time
- 1:15 Bees 14: Honey Extraction
- 1:40 Hamburger history