WATCHING roughly eight Sky+ed episodes of this taught me two things: why the world is hurtling towards full unemployment and just how my teachers managed to make science so boring.

Basically, this programme does what it says on the tin.

It’s Canadian-made and the producers have taken the unusual decision to remove any of the original input as they film how, say, garage doors are made: no interviews with the workers, no witty quips, just bland dubbed commentary from one Tony Hirst and wallpaper music by the likes of Lionel Ritchie that gives you the feeling of being encased in a flotation tank.

So, I learn how fish flies, paintballs, wine, office furniture, springs and lettuce are made, as well as slightly more interestingly, crisps.

Except I don’t, because I drift off half-way through each explanation, just as I used to do in chemistry, biology and physics at school.

Meanwhile, my partner (the person behind the Sky+ing in this case) gasps and whoops as Hirst reveals more thrilling facts about how each lettuce is placed in its individual packet.

This, of course, explains why she got brilliant grades in the sciences and I didn’t.

Part of that, though, might be because I didn’t even get as far as taking those exams.

Anyway, the lettuce appeared to sail along a lake on rafts, were taken on land and hand-packed, while crisps, from the arrival of the potato to their packaging in fully-flavoured form, do not seem to involve any human involvement whatsoever (they are peeled, rinsed, sliced, flavoured and packed by machine) in their making — I swear I even saw a robot driving them to the supermarket, as is the case with most of the stuff featured on here — hence the increasing unemployment.

I know people who get quite excited on finding out how the things in their house or on their dinner table are made.

Not me. Not now. Not ever.