I’ve recently become enamored of James May’s Man Lab. Well worth the viewing, even if you fast forward over some of the more sociological (and cringeworthy) bits of the show. the actual making of things is great.

and somehow it doesn’t come off as patronizing… why oh why is there not this kind of programming on this side of the pond… or for that matter why oh why will the bbc not let me pay a license fee for the iplayer out here in the pacific northwest?