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S4, Ep4 Plastic: a complicated genius

S4, Ep4 Plastic: a complicated genius

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Have you ever considered what an extraordinary invention plastic is? The word plastic means mouldable and therein lies its ingenuity, it can be moulded into every conceivable size shape and colour. It can be thick or thin, large or small, strong or delicate.

Plastic is complicated: it has life saving medical uses but is life threatening to the natural world. Almost every piece of plastic ever made still exists today. Listen and explore how in just 150 years this synthetic material has got into every corner of our lives.

Narrated by Henrietta McMicking

Sound editing by Max Watson

Script by Henrietta McMicking

Produced by Camilla Akers-Douglas and Henrietta McMicking

Theme music by James Burrell Music

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