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Celebrating the inventions across England that have changed people's daily lives

A series of programmes celebrating the inventions across England that have changed people's daily lives

Maggie Aderin-Pocock

Tim Baggaley

Angus Wallace

Julian Ellis

Peter Butcher

Roy Burton

Holly Batley

Andy Bone

Nicola Wood

Peter South

Jane Middleton-Smith

Tilak Dias

Robert Breakspear

Cornel Marculescu

Michael Phelps

Rebecca Adlington

Takayuki Suzuki

Rehannah Mian

Billy Morley

John Catlow

Mark Turnbull

Danny Sullivan

Sally Bowman

Jane Dodge

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23/06/2017

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Maggie Aderin-Pocock reveals how cloth is being used to change lives for the better.

Maggie Aderin-Pocock finds out how cloth is being used in medicine, industry and sport to change lives for the better.

These days cloth is no longer just something we wear to keep warm. Inventors in the east Midlands are leading the world in discovering new uses for textiles. Scientist Maggie Aderin-Pocock finds out how cloth is being used in medicine, industry and sport to change our lives for the better. There's the car seat that stops us falling asleep at the wheel, the implant that's saving people's lives and the fastest textile in the world.

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