A celebratory series for Jubilee Year about craftsmen in Britain.
"Some people wouldn't consider I'm a proper blacksmith at all. I don't shoe horses for instance, which one thinks of as part of the activity of blacksmithing, but there always have been and always will be, I suppose, different kinds of smiths..."
Ivan Smith works in Worcestershire. He was trained as a teacher of metal crafts. In mid-career, when he was 36, he chose to leave a secure teaching job and set up his own smithy.