How to Build...: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Britain's iconic and ‘secretive' engineering companies reveal how they build the world's most amazing machines. The first part of the series "How to build a nuclear submarine" a documentary following the construction of the Astute nuclear submarine. The second part of the series "How to build a jumbo jet engine", the story of the thousands of people who design, build and test engines at Rolls-Royce's manufacturing plants in Derby and across the UK, making Rolls-Royce a central part of life for the people of places like Derby. The third and final part of the series "How to build Britain's secret engineers" when the documentary team follows workers at a leading British company on a global journey, as they reveal a handful of their secretive projects including getting Chinook helicopters ready for front line service.

Series details

• Title: How to Build...
• Format: Documentary
• Language: English
• Premiere date: 2010-06-27
• Final broadcast date listed: 2011-11-27
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: BBC Two
• Network country: United Kingdom
• Typical episode runtime: 60 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 24618
• TVDB ID: 176391

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2010-06-27; final listed air date 2010-07-11.
• Season 2: premiered 2011-11-13; final listed air date 2011-11-27.

Source and licence

Adapted from How to Build... on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.