HOW DO THEY DO IT? lifts the bonnet on the modern world and pokes round recklessly with a stick. We too often take for granted our fantastically amazing modern world. They've made it seem so simple. And yet, a look behind the scenes reveals the extraordinary complexity and genius of the engineering which supports 21st Century living.

As our lives become progressively automated and mechanised, we grow further removed from the way things are made and how things are done.

But in HOW DO THEY DO IT? comedian Robert Llewellyn (Kryten in "Red Dwarf", "Scrapheap Challenge", "Hollywood Science") show you the bits you don't usually get to see. This series reveals all you ever wanted to know on a myriad of subjects including Fire Engines, Escalators, Golf Clubs and Baggage Handlers.