The House the 50s Built - press pack

In the build-up to the Queen's Diamond Jubilee weekend, this new four-part series celebrates the science behind the inventions and innovations that transformed the way we lived and catapulted an exhausted, post-war country into the modernity of 1950s Britain.

Engineer and showman Professor Brendan Walker sets out to discover the ingenuity and life-changing technology behind the inventions that took drab, black and white post-war Britain and launched it, under its new young Queen Elizabeth 2nd, into a Technicolor-drenched world of the future.