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Local Heroes is a science and history television programme in the United Kingdom, presented by Adam Hart-Davis.
Made by Screenhouse Productions and directed by Paul Bader, it was first aired on the ITV regional network Yorkshire Television in 1992. In the show, Adam Hart-Davis, dressed in the pink and yellow cycling clothes that would become the show's trademark, rode around the YTV region (including Yorkshire, Norfolk and Lincolnshire) on a matching pink and yellow bicycle, stopping in a particular area to tell the stories of scientists that lived or were born there. These stories were embellished by experiments, performed on the street by Hart-Davis, generally using bits of wood and junk from a trailer on his bike.
This hobo-meets-Johnny Ball style approach to science-education proved appealing, and after two series, the show was sold to the national BBC2 network in 1994. The move saw two changes: the scope of the show was expanded nationwide, with a different region visited each episode; and the theme tune was changed from No More Heroes by The Stranglers to a twee and plinky number, more in keeping with the programme genre. Eventually this was replaced by a more upbeat theme, by Wallace and Gromit composer Julian Nott, played by a Czech orchestra.
Since then, the series has covered over 200 'heroes', and has seen several special episodes. The first special saw Hart-Davis visit Egypt to investigate ancient heroes, while another took him to Italy for a Renaissance special. Another notable show was the finale of the last series (to date), which was performed in front of a live audience at the Royal Institution, much in the style of the Institution's Christmas Lectures.
The show continued until 2000. Since then, Hart-Davis has moved on to other shows, and the bbc.co.uk Local Heroes pages have now been deleted, suggesting that no further series are planned.




Series 1


South West:
Sarah Guppy: patented the exercise bed, the breakfast urn and the suspension bridge
William Watts: invented lead shot
Humphry Davy: discovered laughing gas, started electrochemistry and made patients breathe gases from cows
Edward Jenner: introduced vaccination against smallpox
Mikael Pedersen: designed a beautiful and curious bicycle
George Pocock (inventor): inventor of spanking machine and pioneer of kite locomotion
South:
John Milne: founder of modern seismology
Edward Lyon Berthon, who invented the folding lifeboat
Florence Nightingale
Colin Pullinger
John Stringfellow:
Scotland:
Charles Piazzi Smyth
Joseph Black
John Napier
David Brewster
David Douglas
Gilbert D. Malloch (1881–1955)
Nevil Maskelyne
Charles Hutton
Midlands:
John Barber (engineer): patented the gas turbine
Matthew Boulton: host of the Lunar Society, a gathering of scientists
William Withering: made heart cure from foxgloves (digitalis)
William Murdoch: invented gas lighting
James Watt: invented the copying machine and greatly improved steam engines
Dennis Gabor: invented the hologram on a tennis court – before it was possible to make one
Alexander Parkes: produced plastics, two generations ahead of their time
Frederick W. Lanchester: built the first all-British four-wheel petrol-driven car
Northern Ireland:
John Boyd Dunlop: invented the pneumatic tyre
William Coppin: invented the diving suit and pioneered salvage operations
George Garrett (inventor): invented a submarine, powered by steam and called Resurgam
John Getty McGee: invented the Ulster overcoat (as worn by Sherlock Holmes)
John Thomas Romney Robinson: invented the cup anemometer and measured the position of Armagh with rockets
Harry Ferguson: pioneered the modern tractor system
North West:
John Mackereth: invented the pneumatic mud corer (Mackereth corer) for taking samples from lake beds
John Gough (natural philosopher): blind naturalist who could identify any plant by taste and touch
Thomas Edmondson: inventor of the railway ticket
John Dalton: meteorologist and pioneer of atomic theory
James Prescott Joule: devised modern ideas about heat
Joseph Whitworth: revolutionised engineering by defining standard screw threads




Series 2


1 Devon: Isambard Kingdom Brunel:
Henry Moule:
Thomas Savery:
Mary Anning:
2 Scotland: Alexander Bain (inventor): Electro-chemical telegraph
Charles Macintosh: Mac
James Clerk Maxwell:
Robert Stirling: Inventor
James Gregory (mathematician): Mathematician
3 East: William Harvey: Reformed incorrect thinking about the circulation of blood.
Robert Fitzroy: Pioneered storm warning system and invented the weather forecast.
Benjamin Wiseman: Patented a Windmill in 1783.
William Hase: Modified prison treadmills to take power outside the prison.
William Gilberd: Discovered the earth is a magnet.
John Jeyes: Invented a unique three-function toilet cleaner Jeyes Fluid.
William Hyde Wollaston: Invented a clever mirror-and-prism device (Camera lucida) that lets you see your subject superimposed on your sketch pad.
4 North East: John Walker (inventor): Invented the friction match.
Charles Algernon Parsons: Invented the steam turbine.
Joseph Wilson Swan: Invented the incandescent light bulb.
Lewis Fry Richardson: Inventor of sonar and the understanding of the mathematics of the weather.
Thomas Wright (astronomer): First to understand the Milky Way.
Gladstone Adams: Invented the windscreen wiper.
5 Wales: Thomas Telford: Developed a system for road building & built bridges.
Alfred Russel Wallace: Devised theory of natural selection jointly with Darwin.
William Price (physician): Pioneer of cremation.
Harry Grindell Matthews: Invented a portable radio, and supposed Death Ray inventor.
Richard Trevithick: Ran world's first steam locomotive at Merthyr.
Robert Recorde: Invented equals sign.
Hugh Owen Thomas (and the bonesetters of Anglesey): Four generations of bonesetters and founder of
orthopaedic surgery.
6 South East:
Samuel Morland: Invented giant megaphones and was master mechanic to Charles II
Hertha Ayrton: Invented way of clearing trenches of Mustard Gas.
Eleanor Coade: Her artificial stone was used for many landmarks.
Henry Maudslay: Founder of precision engineering and first production line.
Thomas Young (scientist): Discovered how the eye works and translated the Rosetta Stone.
Liborio Pedrazzoli: Inventor of swimming umbrellas.
Ralph Wedgwood (inventor): Invented carbon paper.
William Willoughby Cole Verner: Invented cavalry sketching board to enable cavalrymen to make accurate maps whilst on horseback.




Series 3


1 Devon and Cornwall: Thomas Newcomen et al.
2 London: Cornelius Drebbel et al.
3 South: Robert Hooke et al.
4 Special – Egypt
5 Special – Italy
6 Special – Science Week




Series 4


1 South: Henry Cavendish et al.
2 East of Scotland: James Dewar et al.
3 Cotswolds: William Henry Fox Talbot et al.
4 St Pauls: Heroines




External links


Local Heroes at IMDb

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