Built in Britain

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DoctorX

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7,240 posts

166 months

Sunday 7th October 2012
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Anybody else watching this? Excellent programme, what I pay the licence for.

Flat_Steve

1,533 posts

246 months

Sunday 7th October 2012
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No, what is it? Can't seem to find it online.

DoctorX

Original Poster:

7,240 posts

166 months

Sunday 7th October 2012
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Was on BBC2 at 8pm. About UK civil engineering (Crossrail, New Forth Bridge, Heathrow, HS2 etc etc). Well worth a watch in iplayer.

king arthur

6,538 posts

260 months

Monday 8th October 2012
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Yes well worth watching. I like Evan Davies' style.

FiF

43,960 posts

250 months

Monday 8th October 2012
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Evan Davies makes a good point about the benefits of infrastructure projects, also the issue of they take so long to deliver that the world is a different place.

One bit that rankled a little, and it's not the BBC nor Evan's fault, but the way Britain has been led. Crossrail, 8 tunnel boring machines, all from Germany. Oh Markham Engineering of Chesterfield, having built over 500 tunnel boring machines over the years, including the Channel Tunnel machines, where are you now? For more than 12 years now under housing and apartment blocks. irked