Pencils

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.

Directing

Michael Rees · Director

Phil Stein · Director

Production

Amanda Lyon · Producer

Jenny Midl · Executive Producer

Phil Stein · Producer

Phillip Smith · Producer