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Birth of a Revolution. It's 300 years since
British ironmaster Abraham Darby kick-started the Industrial Revolution by introducing coke smelting at his ironworks in Coalbrookdale, Shropshire. Helen Mark joins archaeologists and descendants of Darby to explore his legacy. Repeated from Saturday at 6.07am

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