Tunnelling under London and what came first - the chicken or the egg?
Fun Kids Science Quest
Fun Kids
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2017
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Crossrail is one of Europe's biggest engineering projects ever, involving 26 miles of tunnels under London. Chris Binns is a chief engineer from the project and tells Dan about immense job of digging right underneath the capital and the challenges they faced along the way!
Plus, Sir Sidney McSprocket's jumping back in time to find out about a clever invention to keep your tea warm, we discover a dangerous job - hurricane hunting - and our science expert Tom settles an age-old discussion: what came first, the chicken or the egg?
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| 0:00.0 | This is a podcast from the children's radio station Fun Kids. Listen on DAB Digital Radio across the UK or online at FunKidslive.com. |
| 0:11.2 | Hello, welcome to the Fun Kids Science Weekly. My name is Dan. Thanks so much for giving us a listen. |
| 0:17.7 | This is the show about the most amazing, epic and deadly things that are around |
| 0:21.8 | in the universe. Today we've got a little bit of an invention theme going on. A bit later, we'll |
| 0:26.9 | talk about one of the fastest planes ever made. Also, we'll chat about the invention of life |
| 0:32.4 | itself. In a set, we'll talk as well to the chief engineer of Crossrail, which is one of the biggest projects of engineering ever undertaken in the whole of history. |
| 0:42.1 | We've got a dangerous Dan as well. It's a good one today as well, really terrifying. |
| 0:45.4 | It's not a dangerous place, an animal, even a disease. It's a dangerous job. |
| 0:50.3 | You need to hear that. It will scare you out of your wit to what these guys do, I promise. |
| 0:54.4 | First, let's chat and catch up with an actual inventor on the show. |
| 0:59.6 | He's Sir Sidney McSprocket, and he looks into the scientific brilliance of everyday items. |
| 1:05.0 | Today, it's all about keeping things warm. |
| 1:09.0 | So Sydney McSprocett's Everyday everyday items with the support from the Royal Commission |
| 1:12.8 | for the 1851 exhibition. |
| 1:17.4 | Oh, hello. |
| 1:19.4 | It's lovely to see you back. |
| 1:21.4 | I'm just making the final adjustment |
| 1:23.2 | to a very special invention of mine. |
| 1:26.4 | A splint for limp chimps, no less. |
| 1:29.9 | Now, you like this? |
| 1:33.8 | Oh, now that wasn't supposed to happen. |
| 1:36.8 | Never mind, more important matters at hand today. |
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