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Season 2019
Episode 1: The Broken Building That Must Not Be Destroyed
Air Date: March 4th, 2019
Summary: St Peter's Seminary sits in woodland about an hour west of Glasgow, near a village called Cardross. If you like Brutalist architecture, then it's a beautiful ruin - if not, then perhaps your view isn't so kind. It's a historic, religious building - but it's also a money sink that can't be demolished. My thanks to Ronnie Convery at the Archdiocese of Glasgow! Edited by Michelle Martin, @mrsmmartin I'm at http -//tomscott.com on Twitter at http -//twitter.com/tomscott on Facebook at http -//facebook
Episode 2: The Last Play-For-Cash Fascination Parlor
Air Date: March 11st, 2019
Summary: On Nantasket Beach in the seaside town of Hull, Massachusetts, sits the last play-for-cash Fascination Parlor in the world. It's a century-old arcade game, made of relays that click and buzz. There are a few other parlors left in the world - but this is the only one where you're playing for actual money.
Episode 3: The Sculpture That Looks Like A Real-Life Cartoon
Air Date: April 22nd, 2019
Summary: Gibbs Farm, in New Zealand, is an enormous private sculpture collection. Its most famous piece is Horizons, by Neil Dawson - and it looks like a cartoon tissue somehow painted onto the landscape. To see it in person, though, will take a bit of effort.
Episode 5: The Circle Visible From Space
Air Date: May 20th, 2019
Summary: Mount Taranaki, on the North Island of New Zealand, is a large-scale circle that's visible from space - a stratovolcano with six miles of forest around it. But that didn't happen naturally. Oh, and there's a good chance that, in the next fifty years or so, it might explode.
Episode 6: The One-Lane Bridge Shared By Cars And Trains
Air Date: June 10th, 2019
Summary: Near Hindon, on the South Island of New Zealand, there's one of only two remaining one-lane road-rail bridges in the country. No barriers, no lights, no sirens - if you're driving across this, you need to make sure to listen out for the train horn.
Episode 8: The Giant Underground Tunnels Protecting Tokyo From Floods
Air Date: July 8th, 2019
Summary: If you believe the hype, then the Metropolitan Area Underground Discharge Channel stops Tokyo flooding. It doesn't. But it is one colossal part of a huge network of flood defences that protect a city that would otherwise be... well, very wet.
Episode 9: The Only Bit Of Louisiana's Coast That Isn't Sinking
Air Date: September 9th, 2019
Summary: On a coastline that's steadily sinking under the waves, the Wax Lake Delta is rising - which is a wonderful thing for researchers.Historically, every time humans try and mess with the Mississippi, there have been unintended consequences - and even though we can now model it fairly well, there are still surprises.
Episode 11: Inside The Tunnels That Will Store Nuclear Waste For 100,000 Years
Air Date: September 30th, 2019
Summary: Onkalo, on the Finnish island of Olkiluoto, is planned to be the first geologic storage facility for high-level nuclear waste - eventually sealed for 100,000 years. I got to see inside.
Episode 12: The Giant Art That Keeps Planes Quiet
Air Date: October 21st, 2019
Summary: Next to Amsterdam Schiphol Airport is the Buitenschot Land Art Park, a giant set of ridges and furrows cut into the landscape. Yes, it's art - but it also stops some local residents from being exposed to jet noise.
Episode 14: Why The World's Littlest Skyscraper Was A Massive Scam
Air Date: December 16th, 2019
Summary: In Wichita Falls, Texas, the Newby-McMahon Building stands 480 inches tall. Not 480 feet - 480 inches. There's a story of a smooth-talking scammer that sounds almost too good to be true. But is it?
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