Inside the Factory · SEASON 4

Pencils

Episode 8 · 2019-03-19

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Episode overview

Gregg Wallace is in Germany at a historic pencil factory where they produce 600,000 writing implements a day. Cherry Healey examines the astonishing properties of graphite. Historian Ruth Goodman traces the origin of pencils to a 15th-century graphite discovery in the Borrowdale valley.

59 minutes

Season 4 episodes

1. Coffee2018-07-17 2. Toilet Roll2018-07-24 3. Sausages2018-07-31 4. Curry2018-08-14 5. Potato Waffles2019-02-26 6. Pizza2019-03-05 7. Beer2019-03-12 8. Pencils2019-03-19 9. Cheese2019-03-26