Name: How Do They Do It?
Released: 2006-05-06T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Chris Broyles, Robert Llewellyn, Rupert Degas

Available on Prime Video

After watching this series you may never look at ordinary objects in the same way again. A tube of toothpaste? Car tires? Tea bags? A lot of technology goes into even the simplest of consumer goods, and this program offers viewers a glimpse at just what that entails.

Documentary · 2006 · 22 min

Starring Chris Broyles , Robert Llewellyn , Rupert Degas

EPISODE 1

Navy Scout, Tabasco, Decaf Coffee

Navy Scout, Tabasco, Decaf Coffee

21 min · 26 Mar 2011
EPISODE 2

Episode 1

How do Japanese master chefs prepare the extremely poisonous puffer fish and avoid killing their customers? How do Scots weave over 700 types of tartan for kilts?

20 min · 3 Jun 2011
EPISODE 3

Episode 2

How do they design and produce the ultimate kingpin bowling ball? How do they raise and lower Tower Bridge? How do they produce millions of gummy bears a day?

20 min · 10 Jun 2011
EPISODE 4

Episode 8

How do they instruct robots to mass-produce cars, and how do they transform the world's biggest football stadium into its largest ice hockey arena?

20 min · 17 Jun 2011
EPISODE 5

Episode 15

How is a 700-hundred-year-old tree made into a two-tonne Japanese drum? How can a factory produce thousands of cars and stay green? How do Italians make great tasting pasta?

20 min · 24 Jun 2011
EPISODE 6

Island Prison, Mailboxes, Jam

How do they run Riker's Island, one of the biggest jails in the world? How do they make the famous Royal Mail post box? How do they turn fruit into jam?

20 min · 1 Jul 2011