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September 2015
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In the final episode, James May attempts his most secretive and risky stunt to date, which involves an ailing seaside town and a great big monster. Also in the program, James challenges his hapless sidekick Rory to the unenviable task of running a whelk stall, a new type of table football is invented for every England fan,...
August 2015
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James May digs up half of the South Coast to try and find the wedding ring his father lost on a family holiday forty years ago, before setting sail to establish his very own pirate radio station. Meanwhile back at headquarters, James and Sim solve the time old problem of how to deal with junk mail using a model railway and...
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James May travels to an Oxfordshire town where a royal tradition desperately needs his help. Can he find a way of feeding thousands of locals to save their diamond jubilee celebration using ballistics and hot crossed buns? Back at the Man Lab, James tests once and for all whether it is possible to make your own luck by bea...
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James May continues his epic quest to re-skill the modern male. Tonight, James and the team set off chasing storms across the country as they attempt to take on the wrath of mother nature and actually catch a bolt of lightning. Also in the show, James finally thinks he has found a sport he can compete in when he enters the...
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James May continues his epic quest to re-skill the modern male. First up, James enlists the help of a memory champion as he prepares to commentate live on one of the toughest sporting events of them all - the Grand National. Back in the Man Lab, rather than order in some takeaway, James builds a pizza oven from scratch. Me...
September 2014
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In this Christmas special, James and the team try to create their own Christmas miracle, by making it snow. Oz Clarke is dispatched in a small plane armed with a salt shaker to see if cloud seeding really will produce the desired effect. Back in the Man Lab, James discovers the easiest way to wrap presents and also attempt...
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James May attempts to prove the impossible - that an Englishman can take a penalty and score. He will need to keep a cool head as he'll be taking the penalty in front of 20,000 baying German fans on the exact spot where England were knocked out of the 2006 World Cup. Plus, James reinstates an ancient ferry crossing by buil...
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James May continues his epic quest to re-skill the modern male. Tonight, James takes to the catwalk to liberate men from the tyranny of fashion and promote the one item of clothing they'll ever need - a cunningly modified boiler suit. Then he also does his bit for the British space project by sending the ashes of a cat and...
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James May continues his epic quest to re-skill the modern male. This episode sees James and the team reunite a teenage rock band, now middle-aged, and gets them to play their first concert in 20 years - in front of 5,000 unsuspecting festival goers. James also demonstrates his own axe skills as he fells a tree, makes toile...
August 2014
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James May returns for another action-packed series, as he continues his epic quest to re-skill the modern male. A handcuffed James and Oz Clarke break out of Dartmoor prison and must navigate their way across the treacherous moors, with a team of trackers in hot pursuit and just an ordnance survey map and a compass to help...
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From his Man Lab HQ, James May and his team set out on a series of action-packed challenges that will help modern man relearn some of the lost skills of yesteryear. Tonight, James builds a sky rocket that would make NASA proud, and two blokes settle an unresolved 25-year-old dispute with a sabre duel. Celebrity Man Task se...
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James May thinks that modern man has lost the resourcefulness of men from thirty years ago. From his Man Lab HQ, James and his team set out on a series of action-packed challenges that will help modern man relearn some of the lost skills of yesteryear. Tonight, James builds a new pub, navigates the high seas the old-fashio...
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James May thinks modern man needs saving. Thirty years ago men were a resourceful, practical and dependable band of brothers but today they are a pale imitation of the men of yesteryear. From his Man Lab HQ, James and his team set out on a series of action-packed challenges that will help modern man relearn some of the vit...
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