The BEST episodes directed by Martin Gorst
#1 - Tower
Big, Bigger, Biggest - Season 3 - Episode 5
China’s Canton Tower required great leaps in technology to build. Explore the way key historic towers like the Eiffel Tower and Washington Monument made these engineering breakthroughs possible.
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#2 - Train
Big, Bigger, Biggest - Season 3 - Episode 6
France’s TGV has been pushed to 575 kilometres. Examine four iconic trains and the breakthroughs that enabled the development of the fastest train on the planet.
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#3 - Inside Chernobyl's Mega Tomb
BBC Documentaries - Season 2016 - Episode 379
Documentary which follows the construction of a trailblazing 36,000-tonne steel structure to entomb the ruins of the nuclear power plant destroyed in the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. It films close up with the team of international engineers as they race to build the new structure before Chernobyl's original concrete sarcophagus - the hastily built structure that covers the reactor - collapses. Built to last just thirty years, the temporary sarcophagus is now crumbling, putting the world at risk of another release of radioactive dust. Radiation levels make it impossible for workers to build the new shelter directly over the old reactor, so engineers are erecting the new megastructure - taller than the tower of Big Ben and three times heavier than the Eiffel Tower - to one side and will then face the challenge of sliding the largest object ever moved on land into place over the old reactor.
#4 - Submarine
Big, Bigger, Biggest - Season 2 - Episode 2
This second instalment of the show that explores major leaps in engineering reveals how six technological breakthroughs enabled the construction of gigantic submarine, the USS Pennsylvania. First commissioned in 1989, the USS Pennsylvania is the biggest submarine in the western world. However, the construction of this mammoth underwater warship would not have been possible without six key innovations... This programme examines all six, and details how the monster submarine developed.
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