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Engineering Solutions

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New series 1/5. Adam Hart-Davis dons his hard hat and steel-capped boots to explore some of the most ambitious civil engineering projects currently under construction in the UK.
The first major new railway in this country Since the Victorian era. the Channel Tunnel Rail Link is due to be completed in 2007. Hart-Davis meets the tunnelling supremos who are making engineering history. Producer Sarah Taylor
Repeated at 9.30pm
Adam Hart-Davis: page 26

Engineering Solutions
9.00am/9.30pm R4
RT columnist Adam Hart-Davis begins a new series on "some of the best engineering know-how around today". And it's nowhere near as dull as I've just made it sound, for it turns out that engineers can be decidedly odd. Today, for example, he meets the men responsible for fashioning the Channel Tunnel Rail Link. One admits that they are all hooked on tunnelling: "You feel part of a family... that sees a lot of muck and concrete!" Read more on p26. (Jane Anderson)

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Adam Hart-Daws
Producer:
Sarah Tay
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