Brushing Up On...

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  • Premiered: Apr 2013
  • Episodes: 10
  • Followers: 0
  • Ended
  • BBC Four
  • Thursday at 20
  • Documentary

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Season 2
2x1
Miniature Britain
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 27, 2014
Danny Baker embarks on a Lilliputian odyssey through all things titchy - from model trains to pint-sized cows via the mecca of the miniature, the model village.
2x2
British Statues
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 06, 2014
Danny Baker delves through the archives to look at statues. Featuring Winston Churchill, Emmeline Pankhurst, John Noakes and King Kong.
2x3
British Beaches
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 13, 2014
Danny Baker plonks a deckchair on the sandy bit between the land and the sea and mulls over this mysterious, salty, golden or pebbly hinterland.
2x4
British Woodlands
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 20, 2014
Danny Baker throws some archive footage into his knapsack and goes for a ramble through our green realms, encountering an X-rated mushroom along the way.
2x5
Street Furniture
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 27, 2014
Danny Baker strolls into the world of bollards, benches, bins and lavatories as he explores Britain's street furniture. Expect hymns to the phone box and pillar box by way of a terrifying Belisha beacon.
2x6 Show finale
British Schools
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 03, 2014
Danny Baker dons the mortar board in a whistle-stop archival romp through our education system.

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