Top Gear presenter James May explores flying cars, "petrol" made from air and other mind-boggling innovations in James May's Big Ideas, a new Open University TV series seeking out the science that could shape our future. Energy, transport and robotics are the themes that May explores in a follow-up to his earlier Open University TV show James May's Twentieth Century. Not content with merely pondering the questions that keep him up at night, James travels the world and into the realms of cutting edge science with a surfeit of his trademark wit and imagination. The series is shot in the UK, US, Spain, Germany, Holland, Japan, Russia, Eire and over three episodes looks at the issues that trouble him: