Inside the room balancing Britain’s power grid
His latest England video visits the control room that keeps Great Britain’s electricity supply in balance. The YouTube release explores why that job is becoming harder.
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Tom Scott
Tom Scott is a British presenter exploring how the world works through factual videos, the England road trip series and the sideways-thinking podcast Lateral.
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The Here’s What You Do trio returns to Lateral
Tom hosts James Smales, Jonny Robins and John Cantrell in episode 212, “The bad hotel”, with questions about decorum, beef and tanker transport.
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Putting a Victorian testing machine to work
In “This machine breaks things”, Tom visits Kirkaldy Testing Works and explores machines that measure how materials bend, stretch and fail.
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Evan, Katelyn and Sage take on Lateral
Episode 202, “A sudden square”, brings together Evan Heling, Katelyn Heling and Sage the Bad Naturalist for another round of sideways questions.
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The final weekly newsletter
Tom signs off after more than five years of weekly recommendations. The final edition shares his Chained Library visit, a bridge investigation and the season finale of One Of These People Is Lying.
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