Series 3, Episode 1

S03 E01 • Tuesday, Apr 21, 1981 • Apr 21 • 30m

Series 3, Episode 2

S03 E02 • Tuesday, Apr 28, 1981 • Apr 28 • 30m

Series 3, Episode 3

S03 E03 • Tuesday, May 5, 1981 • May 5 • 30m

Have you ever found yourself on a desert island with a 78 but no record player? Then take note. Heinz Wolff, principal judge on 'The Great Egg Race', instructs the contestants to make a gramophone from household materials. The guest judge is Terry Pamplin, a musician and musical-instrument maker. One of the earliest devices for playing music was created by American inventor Thomas Alva Edison in 1877. Known as a phonograph, it played back sounds via a stylus or needle following grooves in a cylindrical sheet of foil. In the late 1880s, Emil Berliner invented the gramophone, a modification of its predecessor that used grooves on a flat, rotating disk to play back recorded sounds. The music was reproduced and the sound amplified through the sound box, tone arm and sound horn. Stereo sound was introduced in the 1950s.

Series 3, Episode 4

S03 E04 • Tuesday, May 12, 1981 • May 12 • 30m

Series 3, Episode 5

S03 E05 • Tuesday, May 19, 1981 • May 19 • 30m

Series 3, Episode 6

S03 E06 • Tuesday, May 26, 1981 • May 26 • 30m

Series 3, Episode 7

S03 E07 • Tuesday, Jun 2, 1981 • Jun 2 • 30m

Series 3, Episode 8

S03 E08 • Tuesday, Jun 9, 1981 • Jun 9 • 30m

Series 3, Episode 9

S03 E09 • Tuesday, Jun 16, 1981 • Jun 16 • 30m