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Richard Hammond's Big

2020 · Rated 7/10

Last aired: S1 E9, Mankind's Biggest Builds · 2020-03-11

Richard Hammond's Big sees him go behind-the-scenes of the largest structures and machines in the world to gain insight into the science of ‘big'. Richard will investigate how engineers go about building, maintaining and using these superstructures. With each episode comes a new location and mega structure, which takes him around the globe exploring the likes of the world's longest underground railway tunnel to a cargo ship the size of four football pitches. Richard will meet the unsung heroes behind their development and delve into the science needed to create them via a series of incredible experiments, proving that it's the tiny that makes the truly massive possible.

Cast

Richard Hammond Presenter

Season 1

E1 World's Biggest Car Factory 2020-01-15 · 60 min Richard explores Volkswagen's giant car plant in Wolfsburg, Germany. He checks out its futuristic technology and discovers how this mega-factory works!

E2 Super Galaxy Plane 2020-01-22 · 60 min Richard takes flight aboard the US Air Force's biggest cargo plane: The C-5M Super Galaxy. Climbing inside its inner workings he learns why it's a record breaker.

E3 Austria's Mega Dam 2020-01-29 · 60 min Richard explores one of the world's biggest man-made engineering projects: the Kölnbrein Dam, which can hold back an incredible 200 million tonnes of water!

E4 Mega Ship 2020-02-05 · 60 min Richard joins the crew of one of the biggest moving objects on earth, the Marie Maersk container ship, on her continuous 28,000-mile voyage from Asia to Europe.

E5 World's Longest Railway Tunnel 2020-02-12 · 60 min In this edition, Richard ventures beneath the Alps into the world's longest underground railway connection, the Brenner Base Tunnel.

E6 Super Stadium 2020-02-19 · 60 min Richard visits the huge Tottenham Hotspur Football Stadium in London, where he explores a pitch that splits and rolls away, and takes a terrifying walk on the stadium roof.

E7 Tallest Building On Earth 2020-02-26 · 60 min Richard visits the world's tallest building, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, where he finds himself climbing the biggest lightening conductor on earth.

E8 Gulf Oil Platform 2020-03-04 · 60 min Richard takes a helicopter ride out to one of the most remote places on earth: the Appomattox production platform in the Gulf of Mexico.

E9 Mankind's Biggest Builds 2020-03-11 · 60 min Richard explores elements that engineering projects have in common. And, he reveals how the challenges get bigger when something is built big!

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