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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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The big five-O. The half century. The golden jubilee. That's 50 editions of your favourite auditing podcast in the bag. That's a whopping 3.5% of all episodes of Tomorrow's World ever made that we've managed to cover (and 17% of all episodes of h&p@bbc. for less understandable reasons)

To celebrate such an auspicious occasion, Russ & Mark travel back 60 years to take a look at what the BBC claims is the first ever episode of TW (and we suspect is actually the second episode, but let's not quibble)

The show is still finding its feet and nobody involved seems to have realised that television ought to be at least somewhat entertaining, but let's crack on anyway and take a look at the following segments:

- The first ever home kidney dialysis machine
- A grifter hoping to dam up the Solway Firth
- The Mariner 4 spacecraft's mission to photograph Mars
- And that's it! Should be a short episode this month...

This actual original episode of Tomorrow's World can be found on the BBC's website for you to watch here:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/tomorrows-world--first-edition/zrrpjhv

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We've just had the Oscars and in timely fashion Russ & Mark take the opportunity to audit a Hollywood Special of Tomorrow's World from the summer of 1998, the worst year for cinema in living memory.

Grab your bucket of popcorn and overpriced fizzy pop, sit back in your sticky seat and relax while Philippa Forrester and Craig Doyle bring us the following from the heart of Tinseltown:

- Motion capture featuring Trevor the rabbit
- Some film trailers
- The marvellous make-up of Matthew Mungle
- Gloriously obsolete Technicolor
- Hypno-robics, Botox and oxygen facials
- Synthespians
- ...And far too many mentions of the 1998 blockbuster flop "Gozilla"

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Russ & Mark look back to January 1985, when Ronald Reagan had his second presidential inauguration - an event with many similarities to Trump's recent one. This episode of Tomorrow's World from just a few days before strives to keep us warm and cosy on a chilly winter night with the following segments:

Maggie Philbin tests out a new electric blanket, plus electric carpets and a mysterious Norwegian bicycle wheel.

Peter Macann tries out a new method for inserting pins into teeth.

Kieran Prendiville posits the existence of "strange matter" and demonstrates a new fancy whiteboard.

And Judith Hann sets sail on the Thames Bubbler and has a quick game of 'squarsh'.

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