James May's 20th Century

At the beginning of the 20th Century, long distance travel was for the military-minded, the uprooted and the plain rich, but the pioneers of flight we...

Like many small boys James May dreamt of becoming an astronaut. Even though he may not have realised his dream he sets off to find out what space expl...

James sets out to discover how far he can push his body and finds out about some of the most remarkable medical advances over the last hundred years....

In Take Cover, James looks at how warfare drives ingenuity and gets to fly in the RAF’s latest supersonic jet. It’s an experience that he describes as...

In the 20th Century the teenager emerged as a separate species. But how? Was it the promise of sex? The power of pop? Or the pull of a 50cc Japanese t...

Each day, 180,000 people move into a city somewhere on the planet. In Big City, Bright Lights, James sets out to discover how we’ve created this high-...