By Design

Trends and Products is the part of the show where each week we look at what's happening in a particular part of the designed world.

And this week the product is very much part of the natural world. We're looking at spider silks, and how what we can learn from common spider webs might help us design some remarkable new man-made products.

Guests

Cheryl Hayashi
Associate Professor of Biology at the University of California

Presenter

Alan Saunders

Producer

Mark Wakely

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