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SUNDAY 9/8c

Host Jay Ellis explores masterpieces of modern architecture with help from industry experts.

Gregg visits Aunt Bessie's factory to learn how they make over 500 million Yorkshire puddings per year, Ruth explores Tudor-era cookware cleaning, and Cherry gets a lesson in gravy cooking.

Tiny errors can lead to catastrophe, and three crews experience the same devastating event with radically different outcomes when engines fall off their commercial airplanes mid-flight.

Mike embeds with the U.S. Coast Guard on the docks, in the air and on the sea to discover the fixes needed to keep us safe, and he takes on a key role in a vital winter training exercise.