Inside the Factory

Name: Pencils
Duration: 3540000 s
Cast: Cherry Healey, Gregg Wallace, Ruth Goodman

Pencils

Directed by Michael Rees, Phil Stein

TV-G

S4 • E8 Mar 18, 2019 59m

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.