How Do They Do It? - Season 16

Season 16

Episodes

Peppermint, Tennis Racquets
How does one family in America make three quarters of the world's peppermint oil? Also, how do they make state-of-the-art, performance-enhancing tennis rackets?

Trombone, Spanish Bota
How do they make a trombone? How do they make traditional Spanish wineskins? And, how do they turn smelly muddy peat into rejuvenating face cream?

Surfboards, Satchels, Butter
Over 35 million people love to surf, so how do they make the perfect board for catching waves? Plus, the world eats 10 million tonnes of butter a year -...

Horse Air Transport, Chess Sets, Food Photography
Top race horses are given VIP treatment to get to their new owners, how are they transported? Plus, what creative methods do they use to photograph food?

Stainless Steel, Safe Locks
How do they produce a million tonnes of stainless steel? How do they keep cash safe with an uncrackable lock? How do they make traditional Indian sugar?

Geoduck, Steam Trains
Many items that make up the modern world are the result of sophisticated engineering and production processes. How do they do it?

Bufori Cars, Sports Whistles
How do they build one of the world's most exclusive luxury cars? How do they make a referee's whistle that can be heard above 50,000 screaming fans?

Pile Drivers, Cricket Bats
How do they turn English willow into cricket bats for India's finest cricketers? And, how do they construct the foundations for tall buildings?

Tractors, Cowbells
How do they build a tractor every three minutes to power Indian agriculture? How do they cast the bronze bells that help Swiss farmers keep track of their cows?

Bird's Nest Soup, Rowing Oars
How do they collect millions of real birds' nests to make birds' nest soup? Plus, how do they use aerospace technology to make rowers go faster?

Turbochargers, Plastic Roads
How do they quadruple the power of the world's biggest engines with the most powerful turbochargers? How do they build new roads from old waste plastic?

Sails, Ceremonial Swords
How do they harness the wind to power a racing yacht to Olympic gold? How do they make a sword fit for an officer at the world's largest sword factory?

Guitar Amplifier, Clay Pots
How do they make the amplifier used by rock legends, the famous Marshall amp? Plus, how do they turn wet clay into frost-proof garden pots?

Petronas Window Cleaners
How do they clean the world's tallest twin towers? How do they make a jigsaw where every piece is unique? How do they craft Olympic level hockey sticks?

RVs, Chupa Chups
How do they fit all the features of a luxury apartment into a motorhome? And, how do they make a ballet shoe that can take the weight of a dancer...

Mushrooms, Maps
How do they grow nearly 200,000 tonnes of mushrooms a year in the mushroom capital of the world? And, how do they make billions of life-saving gloves?

Fertiliser, Maple Syrup
How do they mine a million tonnes of fertiliser from below the sea? How do they hand print millions of colourful clothes using the art of batik?

Basmati Rice, Mechanical Birds
How do they turn thousands of tonnes of basmati rice into millions of microwaveable meals? How do they craft beautiful mechanical singing birds?

Hearing Aids, Trains
How do they make an almost invisible hearing aid that connects wirelessly to a phone? How do they build the carriages for London's new underground railway?

Remotely Operated Vehicles
How do they build remote-controlled underwater robots to do jobs too dangerous for human divers? How do they make the world's most cuddly teddy bears?
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