A brand new series for The National Geographic Channel hosted by Dr. Marty Jopson.

Amongst the subjects that Marty presents is 'throw away your fridge' where he eats six year old chow mein and we see the result of leaving food items out of a fridge for a month in his kitchen; he attempts to unlock a car at another location from his home phone via a mobile phone by the car; he drops three individual cars from a crane to see if they really do explode; and he tries to hatch a chicken from an egg bought in a supermarket.

During the series we visit a lightning laboratory and see What Would Happen If you hit various objects with a lightning bolt ranging from an umbrella to a water melon.

Jem Stansfield and Chris Hill, our scientific duo, build various props to find out What Would Happen If…? on such a diverse range of objects as ice runners on a sled for a summer (winter) sport; would a nodding dog kill you if you had to do an emergency stop; can you make breakfast in a paper bag over an open campfire etc.

Mike Bullivant, our 'kitchen' scientific expert will produce extraordinary things with food items ie. make plastic out of potatoes; extract DNA from a kiwi fruit; and make soap from combining fats with a caustic agent.

Our Go Large presenters - Little and Large - test 'larger than normal' items such as a huge water balloon which is dropped from a great height onto a car; seeing the effect of settling alight 7,000 sparklers; creating a yo yo from a wooden cable reel and dropping it from a crane; firing a large water rocket; and dropping a copious amount of silly putty from a great height etc.

Dr Nikki Woolmore, a ballistics expert fires bullets at various everyday items to test whether, for instance, if your mobile was hit whilst on your person, could it save your life.

Our three Brains In A Box, Professors Jim-Al-Khalili; Noel Sharkey; and Heinz Wolff have ten minutes per show to answer questions of such scientific depth as 'What Would Happen If…? the force of gravity was twice as strong; if there was no friction in the world; if we were contacted by aliens; and so on.

In this week's episode we see if it's possible to open your car door via a mobile phone; blast a watermelon with lightning; have three experts discussing the implications of an increase in gravity; demonstrate what would happen if you fired a gun on a train that was travelling at the speed of a bullet; attempt to improve your chance of winning the National Lottery; see the effect of dropping a water balloon from a great height onto a stationary car; and finally try to hatch an egg bought off the supermarket shelf.

In this weeks episode we seek answers to questions like What Would Really Happen if you drove a car off a cliff; could your camera stop a bullet and perhaps save your life; we come to an emergency stop in a vehicle filled with helium and air filled balloons; we drop a large amount of silly putty from a great height; and finally our three brainy boffins tackle the question 'What would happen if there was no friction in the world?'

On this week's show, yet more questions such as What Would Happen If you replied to all the spam e-mails that arrive in your inbox; what is the outcome of a 9mm bullet hitting a mobile phone; could a man-made stone skimmer beat a human; what happens when you take 7,000 sparklers tie them together and set them alight; and our 3 Brains In a Box consider alien contact?

Our Go Large duo send a water rocket into orbit. And what would happen if you used an umbrella to protect yourself in a lightning storm? Just make sure you dont try this one at home. All this and more on the show that’s all about questions.

And host Marty Jopson see if its possible to switch from right handed to left in a month? All this and more on What Would Happen If..?

Our 3 brains in a box tackle the question What would happen If everyone in the world jumped at the same time? And on this weeks Go Large its the turn of children’s fun snaps to get the super-size treatment. Plus we see what happens when you try to breathe underwater using techniques seen at the movies. Culinary chemist Mike Bullivant dishes out more recipes this time the DNA of a kiwi fruit. And of course more of those questions you wished you’d thought of asking courtesy of our thought aficionados Jem and Chris. This week could a nodding dog kill you if you had to slam on the brakes suddenly?

And we learn how to make funny putty from a few common household materials. All this and some more on What Would Happen If..?