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In memory of a dearly departed friend, we go back 60 years to a very special nautical episode that we know he would have enjoyed. 
In an exciting departure from normal service, Raymond Baxter presents to us live from the first ever commercial crossing of the Channel by hovercraft. And along the way he shows us a whole range of exciting new developments in the world of seagoing transportation. This includes:

- Hydrofoils
- Research submarines
- Aquanauts (the "Dandies of the Deep")
- Underwater ejector seats
- Dracone barges
- Plenty of hovercraft chat

Avast ye landlubbers! Anchors aweigh! etc etc.

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Happy New Year! And welcome to the future...

We kick off 2026 with one of our favourite things - a listener request. Mark's friend India had a bizarre and barely believable memory of an episode involving a South African man who had attached flamethrowers to his car. Doesn't sound like Tomorrow's World does it? Well sure enough, here it is.
This is actually a whole South Africa special, where Philippa Forrester and Craig Doyle take a tour of the country on the famous Blue Train, finding out:

- How to study cricketers with mocap
- How to track animals with a PalmPilot
- How to set fire to carjackers
- How to cure TB with some local plants
- How to attach a collar to an elephant

It's mostly a bland load of nothing episode. But who doesn't love a flamethrower?

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Crikey. How is it Christmas again already? Time passes so fast these days that we reckon there must be something up with the space-time continuum.

Speaking of which, join us as we celebrate the season by unwrapping another Tomorrow's World Christmas Quiz, featuring grumpy alien child abductor Dr. Who and a cavalcade of other late-80s superstars.

Merry Christmas everyone! Love Russ and Mark xxx

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There's only two times in history when people were obsessed with airships - 1937, when that Zeppelin exploded in a ball of flame, and 1985 when Roger Moore dangled off one in San Francisco. Tomorrow's World was only there to record the latter of these incidents. But what a truly incredible job they do here. Milton Keynes has never looked more exciting. We've got:

- Judith Hann trying to make herself heard over the sound of airship engines
- Maggie Philbin dressed as Ronald McDonald on a rubbish bike
- Peter Macann giving himself a parking ticket on the way to the cricket
- Howard Stableford showing off his chopper skills

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Mark's been on another one of his holidays. This time to Japan. So it seems the ideal time to cast our eye over an episode of Tomorrow's World that is all about the technological metropolis of Tokyo.
Howard Stableford and Kate Bellingham are our lucky hosts, getting to try out all sorts of stuff that in 1993 would have looked like it was impossibly futuristic, including:

- Train tunnel cartoons
- The NEC Supertower
- A robotic Peeping Tom
- Sleeping with the fishes
- Artificial goat womb
- Nintendo vs Sega
- Useless inventions
- Earthquake prediction
- Howard singing

There was a lot of stuff to talk about so this is a bit of a long episode...

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They say laughter is the best medicine. But who are "they" and are they right? Thank goodness Kieran Prendiville is here to help us find out. 

A very special episode of Tomorrow's World from 1982 with some very special guests and some very poor jokes. You're guaranteed a rib-tickling time, particularly if you happen to be a chimp.

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Despite only just digesting episode 53, Russ and Mark are back with a practically snack-sized morsel from 1972. This episode of Tomorrow's World may be unusually short, but it punches well above its weight in terms of quality content. 

Making a very welcome return is James Burke, with an all-timer of a segment explaining how anyone can commit the heist of the century using only a cigarette machine and a stationery cupboard.

Raymond Baxter is holding fort back at the studio, demonstrating some very important and delightfully noisy new rescue equipment.

Joining him is a youthful Michael Rodd, who is keen to show off his new chair.

All that and we also get to see why you should never ask spies to organise a fireworks display. Not bad for a 20 minute show...

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This time round Russ and Mark decide to heed the advice of Jarvis Cocker and meet up in the year 2000 for the first proper Tomorrow's World episode broadcast in the new millennium. Is it strange now we're all fully grown? Well, not strange exactly. More bang average to be honest. But as always, there's fun to had taking it all apart.

Philippa Forrester and Peter Snow present from the most gantry-infested set of them all, while also reporting from Japan and Seattle where they try out tank tracks for 4x4s and learn about a new multiple sclerosis treatment. Elsewhere, Anya Sitaram visits MIT to play pranks with a new type of directional speaker, while Lindsey Fallow explores the canals of Birmingham with some schoolkids and a useless computer.

Warning: Contains white hot Snow

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Please join us in congratulating Mark for recently securing an exciting new job as chief pencil pusher at one of London's most delicious gravy depositories. 

In honour of the move, your auditors have dug out an episode of Tomorrow's World that features an interesting new development in the world of job applications.

Also in the show, Peter Macann waves a gun around in a supermarket, Judith Hann comes to the rescue of Kentish beer drinkers, Howard Stableford highlights Norwegian hypocrisy while Kate Bellingham is left hanging.

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Russ and Mark have finally finished tidying up after the big 50th party and now it's back to work doing some serious auditing. This episode is in response to a listener enquiring as to the wherabouts of William Woollard. So here he is, joined by fellow TW GOATs Raymond Baxter, Judith Hann and Michael Rodd. 

Bit of an engineering focus this time round, as we take a look at:

- A thrilling new way to apply liquid gaskets

- Funky anti-lock brakes for motorbikes

- The scourge of school vandalism

- Digital readouts for drilling

- Judith's rubber belts

- A Scottish cure for stammering

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