Metal
Mark Miodownik traces the history of our love affair with metal. He investigates metals at the atomic level and sees how metal crystals can be grown to survive inside a jet engine.
Professor Mark Miodownik travels to Israel to trace the history of our love affair with gleaming, lustrous metal. He learns how we first extracted glinting copper from dull rock and used it to shape our world and reveals how our eternal quest for lighter, stronger metals led us to forge hard, sharp steel from malleable iron and to create complex alloys in order to conquer the skies.
He investigates metals at the atomic level to reveal mysterious properties such as why they get stronger when they are hit, and he discovers how metal crystals can be grown to survive inside one of our most extreme environments - the jet engine.
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Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Presenter | Mark Miodownik |
| Executive Producer | Helen Thomas |
| Series Producer | Jacqueline Smith |
Broadcasts
Mon 2 Apr 2012 21:00BBC HD & BBC Four- Tue 3 Apr 2012 03:00
- Thu 5 Apr 2012 22:00
- Mon 3 Sep 2012 19:30
- Tue 4 Sep 2012 00:00
- Mon 12 Aug 2013 20:00
- Tue 13 Aug 2013 02:00
- Tue 10 Nov 2015 01:40
- Mon 16 Jan 2017 22:30
- Wed 16 Aug 2017 23:00
- Mon 14 May 2018 01:30
- Wed 15 May 2019 00:00