Local Heroes (British TV series)
Adam Hart-Davis cycles to tell stories of local scientists.
Local Heroes is a science and history television programme that originally aired on the ITV regional network Yorkshire Television in 1992. Presented by Adam Hart-Davis, the show featured him cycling around the YTV region on a pink and yellow bicycle, telling stories of local scientists and performing street experiments. After two series, it was sold to the national BBC2 network in 1994, expanding nationwide and continuing until 2000.
Quick Facts
- Director
- Paul Bader
- Presenter
- Adam Hart-Davis
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- Series
- 4
- Company
- Screenhouse Productions
- Network
- ITV
- First aired
- 1992
Facts from the source article.
Series 2
The second series covered six regions. In Devon, the heroes included Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Henry Moule, Thomas Savery, and Mary Anning. Scotland featured Alexander Bain, inventor of the electro-chemical telegraph; Charles Macintosh; James Clerk Maxwell; Robert Stirling, inventor; and mathematician James Gregory. Wales included Thomas Telford, who developed a road-building system and built bridges; Alfred Russel Wallace, co-deviser of natural selection; physician William Price, pioneer of cremation; Harry Grindell Matthews, inventor of a portable radio and supposed death ray; Richard Trevithick, who ran the world's first steam locomotive at Merthyr; Robert Recorde, inventor of the equals sign; and Hugh Owen Thomas and the bonesetters of Anglesey, four generations of bonesetters and founder of orthopaedic surgery.
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