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Sunday Feature: Staying Bright - A Century of Stainless Steel

Series 1, episode 0

Poet Simon Armitage explores the history of stainless steel, over 100 years since it was identified by Harry Brearley, a metallurgist in Sheffield. Simon visits Sheffield: Outokumpu where Stainless is made and Portland Works, where the first ever stainless steel knife blade was forged. He also visits Canary Wharf, in London, for its architecture, and talks to sculptor Antony Gormley, who is working on a new stainless steel body form