Dr Chris Davis provides lightning expertise for James May's Man Lab on BBC Two
Release Date 04 April 2013
Dr Chris Davis, a space and atmospheric scientist from the University of Reading's Department of Meteorology, provided the expert knowledge of thunderstorms to allow James May's Man Lab team to attempt to capture a bolt of lightning using a rocket and a long piece of wire.
Find out if they were successful* by watching the programme again on BBC iPlayer (available until May 2).
(*Spoiler alert: they weren't).