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Glued Up: The Sticky Story of HumanityEpisodes

  1. Coming Unstuck

    Modern glues are incredibly strong - but are they too good?

  2. War and Wounds

    The accidental invention of superglue has saved lives on battlefields and operating tables

  3. How glues helped us fly

    Some of the biggest revolutions in aircraft design have been down to adhesives.

  4. How rubber changed the world

    Latex, the sticky sap of the rubber tree, transformed everything in the 19th century.

  5. The Birth of Civilisation

    Glues hold our world together – and have done since the dawn of civilisation.