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Season 1

  • S01E01 The Motorway Map of Britain

    • March 8, 2024
    • Channel 5

    A surprisingly bumpy ride through our love-hate relationship with motorways. The godmother of the road sign discusses her iconic designs. Plus, our favourite and most hated service stations.

  • S01E02 The Canal Map of Britain

    • March 15, 2024
    • Channel 5

    A look at Britain's beloved canal network via a fact-filled cruise along the first superhighways of the Industrial Revolution. In the age before mechanisation, a frenzy of canal-building saw a new army of workers carve out the British landscape, digging out hundreds of miles of waterways using picks, shovels and muscle.

  • S01E03 The Railway Map of Britain

    • March 22, 2024
    • Channel 5

    Charting the high and lows of Britain's railway - the invention created at the dawn of the 19th century that would change Britain and the world forever - from the Industrial Revolution to HS2.

  • S01E04 The Sewer Map of Britain

    • March 29, 2024
    • Channel 5

    Investigating the hidden secrets of the sewers, from London's current Tideway Tunnel, to the Romans' solution almost 2,000 years ago.

  • S01E05 The Underground Map of Britain

    • April 5, 2024
    • Channel 5

    A fact-fuelled ride through London's tube network, mapping out the history of the world's first - and most iconic - underground railway system. Viewers discover how this 160-year-old marvel of engineering manages to carry 1.3 billion passengers a year.

  • S01E06 The Coastal Map of Britain

    • April 12, 2024
    • Channel 5

    Documentary examining the rise and fall of the UK's greatest ports. The programme spans the first international traders arriving on the coasts of Devon and Cornwall, through the arrival of the Romans, Elizabeth I's extension of British territory, and the huge impact of the tea trade and the Industrial Revolution.