83. How do Electric Cars Drive? Featuring The Royal Institution, How long does it take to build a motorway? Why do we get carsick?

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In this week’s show we answer three questions from Ryan, Willa and Orla with help from special guest expert Rachel Dorris at the Royal Institution in London.

We find out all about electric cars, how many are made each day, why they could be great and how we need to thank Michael Faraday who invented the electric motor at the Royal Institution for their existence!

Hear how you can win family tickets to a show at The Royal Institution in London!

Next we discuss how long it takes to build motorways and the kinds of things that go into building one. Plus, which county in the UK has no motorways?

Do you ever get carsick? Find out why and what you can do to feel less sick!

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Molly Oldfield studied History at Oxford before becoming a QI elf, writing and researching questions for the BBC quiz show for twelve years. She has written three books. They are The Secret Museum, a book about all the things that are in museums that rarely, if ever, go on display; Wonders of the World’s Museums filled with things you can see, and Natural Wonders of the World about all kinds of creatures and places on our beautiful planet we call home. 

Her fourth book Everything Under the Sun – A Year of Curious Questions is filled with 366 questions sent into Everything Under The Sun, it has been beautifully illustrated by 12 artists and is published by Ladybird at Penguin Random House. 

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