Tomorrow's World Audit Time

Send us Fan Mail Your auditors recently noticed that despite knocking out over sixty episodes of this podcast, they had completely failed to cover a single episode from 1983 - so here's an episode that makes amends for that terrible oversight.  As luck would have it, a truly momentous event took place this year: The A-Team premiered, taking its star Mr. T to stratospheric heights of worldwide...

Send us Fan Mail Here's a bit of fun for everybody who has been celebrating April Fool's Month (and we're sure that's most of you) - a lighthearted little episode from 1st April 1992 where viewers are invited to spot the fake item hidden amongst a whole host of improbable-seeming technological tomfoolery. Can you spot it or will you find yourself forever pitied by Mr. T? Suppor...

Send us Fan Mail With the awards season fresh in their minds, Russ and Mark travel back a mere 24 years to 2002 where Kate Humble and Roger Black host the third (and last) annual Tomorrow's World Awards - in association with British Gas. There's actually quite a bit of interesting stuff in here as there's quite a few decent inventions among the nominees, alongside a whole cavalcade...

Send us Fan Mail In memory of a dearly departed friend, we go back 60 years to a very special nautical episode that we know he would have enjoyed.  In an exciting departure from normal service, Raymond Baxter presents to us live from the first ever commercial crossing of the Channel by hovercraft. And along the way he shows us a whole range of exciting new developments in the world of seagoing tra...

Send us Fan Mail Happy New Year! And welcome to the future... We kick off 2026 with one of our favourite things - a listener request. Mark's friend India had a bizarre and barely believable memory of an episode involving a South African man who had attached flamethrowers to his car. Doesn't sound like Tomorrow's World does it? Well sure enough, here it is. This is actually a whole S...

Send us Fan Mail Crikey. How is it Christmas again already? Time passes so fast these days that we reckon there must be something up with the space-time continuum. Speaking of which, join us as we celebrate the season by unwrapping another Tomorrow's World Christmas Quiz, featuring grumpy alien child abductor Dr. Who and a cavalcade of other late-80s superstars. Merry Christmas everyone! Love...

Send us Fan Mail There's only two times in history when people were obsessed with airships - 1937, when that Zeppelin exploded in a ball of flame, and 1985 when Roger Moore dangled off one in San Francisco. Tomorrow's World was only there to record the latter of these incidents. But what a truly incredible job they do here. Milton Keynes has never looked more exciting. We've got: -...

Send us Fan Mail Mark's been on another one of his holidays. This time to Japan. So it seems the ideal time to cast our eye over an episode of Tomorrow's World that is all about the technological metropolis of Tokyo. Howard Stableford and Kate Bellingham are our lucky hosts, getting to try out all sorts of stuff that in 1993 would have looked like it was impossibly futuristic, including:...

Send us Fan Mail They say laughter is the best medicine. But who are "they" and are they right? Thank goodness Kieran Prendiville is here to help us find out.  A very special episode of Tomorrow's World from 1982 with some very special guests and some very poor jokes. You're guaranteed a rib-tickling time, particularly if you happen to be a chimp. Support the show If you press...

Send us Fan Mail Despite only just digesting episode 53, Russ and Mark are back with a practically snack-sized morsel from 1972. This episode of Tomorrow's World may be unusually short, but it punches well above its weight in terms of quality content.  Making a very welcome return is James Burke, with an all-timer of a segment explaining how anyone can commit the heist of the century using on...

Send us Fan Mail This time round Russ and Mark decide to heed the advice of Jarvis Cocker and meet up in the year 2000 for the first proper Tomorrow's World episode broadcast in the new millennium. Is it strange now we're all fully grown? Well, not strange exactly. More bang average to be honest. But as always, there's fun to had taking it all apart. Philippa Forrester and Peter Sno...

Send us Fan Mail Please join us in congratulating Mark for recently securing an exciting new job as chief pencil pusher at one of London's most delicious gravy depositories.  In honour of the move, your auditors have dug out an episode of Tomorrow's World that features an interesting new development in the world of job applications. Also in the show, Peter Macann waves a gun around in a...

Send us Fan Mail Russ and Mark have finally finished tidying up after the big 50th party and now it's back to work doing some serious auditing. This episode is in response to a listener enquiring as to the wherabouts of William Woollard. So here he is, joined by fellow TW GOATs Raymond Baxter, Judith Hann and Michael Rodd.  Bit of an engineering focus this time round, as we take a look at: -...

Send us Fan Mail The big five-O. The half century. The golden jubilee. That's 50 editions of your favourite auditing podcast in the bag. That's a whopping 3.5% of all episodes of Tomorrow's World ever made that we've managed to cover (and 17% of all episodes of h&p@bbc. for less understandable reasons) To celebrate such an auspicious occasion, Russ & Mark travel back 60...

Send us Fan Mail We've just had the Oscars and in timely fashion Russ & Mark take the opportunity to audit a Hollywood Special of Tomorrow's World from the summer of 1998, the worst year for cinema in living memory. Grab your bucket of popcorn and overpriced fizzy pop, sit back in your sticky seat and relax while Philippa Forrester and Craig Doyle bring us the following from the hear...

Send us Fan Mail Russ & Mark look back to January 1985, when Ronald Reagan had his second presidential inauguration - an event with many similarities to Trump's recent one. This episode of Tomorrow's World from just a few days before strives to keep us warm and cosy on a chilly winter night with the following segments: Maggie Philbin tests out a new electric blanket, plus electric ca...

Send us Fan Mail Russ & Mark finally tackle the big beast that they have previously avoided  - the classic Tomorrow's World Christmas Quiz. Hosted, as ever, by Howard Stableford, it's a lovely lump of festive fun. Obviously there's the usual crew of Judith Hann, Peter Macann and Maggie Philbin, but because it's Christmas we've also got Moira Stuart, Keith Chegwin, Geor...

Send us Fan Mail We all need cheering up sometimes don't we? And what better way to do that than for your auditors to dig out a brand new tune from the burgeoning Michael Rodd songbook? Sadly, it seems no good deed goes unpunished as the rest of this episode is an absolute dog's breakfast. Feel free to switch off after the opening song - but if you don't, here's what else you c...

Send us Fan Mail We all remember the famous Ronald Reagan speech where he implored "Mr. Hasselhoff, tear down this wall!" But what wall was he talking about? The Berlin Wall of course! And it turns out that Big Ronnie's wishes were granted 35 years ago this very day (if you're listening on day of release).  In order to celebrate this classic toppling event, your auditors travel...

Send us Fan Mail As far as TV sitcoms go, no single episode of anything has made Russ laugh more than series 1, episode 2 of Bottom - the one where the gas man turns up. So to commemorate this perfect half hour of television, your auditors take a look at the episode of Tomorrow's World broadcast just two days prior. It's the first in a new series and marks the very start of the 90s &quot...

Send us Fan Mail For only the second time ever, your auditors take a special look at an episode handpicked by one of their very favourite people - an actual paying subscriber. Steve wrote to us claiming that he remembered Howard's first ever appearance on Tomorrow's World with a level of clarity and detail that seems humanly impossible for a live programme last seen 39 years ago. So desp...

Send us Fan Mail No doubt you're all glued to your televisions, cheering on highly trained athletes performing incredible physical feats in events of which you only have the vaguest understanding. Yes, the Olympics are on at the moment - and rather than listening to the pointless TV commentary, why not stick on our very special Olympic-themed episode of the podcast for a veritable biathlon of...

Send us Fan Mail As the nation prepares to go to the polls, Russ & Mark journey back a mere 23 years to the last episode of Tomorrow's World to coincide with a UK General Election to see if things have only got better. Hosting in the studio, Peter Snow has forgotten his swingometer - but luckily Philippa Forrester is also there to set off our schwingometers, as she visits Wales to see a n...

Send us Fan Mail To celebrate the podcast reaching the Big 4-0, Russ and Mark audit a very special episode of Tomorrow's World  broadcast on the day that the Channel Tunnel opened - exactly 30 years ago today. Howard Stableford and Carmen Pryce give us a comprehensive overview of various aspects of this engineering marvel - including segments on the Eurostar, Le Shuttle, sea levels, ferries,...

Send us Fan Mail Let us travel back almost exactly 45 years to a time when "Boomer" was a cool name and "Starbuck" had nothing to do with coffee. Battlestar Galactica has just been released in UK cinemas, so surely the team at Tomorrow's World will pull out all the stops to make sure their small screen science fact is as exciting as the big screen science fiction?  Hmmm. W...