Wallace and Gromit’s World of Invention – 03 Nov 2010

Today’s recording starts with the end of The One Show. There’s a trailer for Jimmy’s Food Factory and Nigel Slater’s Simple Suppers and one for The Sarah Jane Adventures. Then it’s the first episode of Wallace and Gromit’s World of Invention – Nature Knows Best. This is a fun programme in which Wallace introduces various inventions that have (in this episode) borrowed from nature. Like the German company looking at the Manta Ray to make an airship with wings. Surely, if they’re great engineers, they could have invented a remote control that didn’t require one of them to stand uncomfortably close behind the other? James Auger has made machines that consume flies and use them to generate electricity. Wallace makes his own Biomass generator using elephant farts. Theo Jansen creates some amazing wind powered kinetic sculptures. This one walks along a beach. Rupert Soar looked at termite mounds and worked out how the internal spaces take in wind and cool the mound. Jem Stansfield…

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