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World Service,15 Dec 2009,18 mins

Coal and Iron: Where It All Started.

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300 years ago, Abraham Darby used coal instead of wood to make iron, so starting an important part of the Industrial Revolution. We report from Coalbrookdale in Britain where it happened. And we'll ask Oxford University professor, Dieter Helm, what the cost of a new industrial revolution from a coal economy to a low carbon one might be.

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