Secret Life of Materials - Revealing the hidden world around us

Secret Life of Materials looks at the way that every era of civilisation has been defined by man’s power to manipulate materials. From the Stone Age to the Silicon Age, materials have transformed our world and our lives – in the past century alone more materials have been designed and discovered than at any other time in human history.

In Secret Life of Materials leading expert Dr Mark Miodownik goes deep into the hidden world of materials to uncover their secrets and reveal the material world around us as we’ve never seen it before – and shows how our increased understanding of the natural world is helping the design of a new generation of materials to order.

Episodes from the Secret Life of Materials series:

1. Metal
2. Plastic
3. Ceramics

Secret Life of Materials is a BBC science documentary that gives viewers an opportunity to uncover the secrets of materials that we take for granted in everyday life