Tim Minnshall

So again, this idea that a simple thing like a packet of sugar, you're sitting there, you tear the top off, pour it into your coffee, I would never have given that a moment's thought. That, even the making of sugar, is an incredibly complex manufacturing story.

So again, this idea that a simple thing like a packet of sugar, you're sitting there, you tear the top off, pour it into your coffee, I would never have given that a moment's thought. That, even the making of sugar, is an incredibly complex manufacturing story.

So this is gonna be quite hard to make work on a podcast, but down by my feet is a 1980s cell phone. So this is one of the ones that was roughly the size of a car battery. And I use it as a doorstop now, okay? So it's a very impressive piece of technology. At the time, this was space age technology.

So this is gonna be quite hard to make work on a podcast, but down by my feet is a 1980s cell phone. So this is one of the ones that was roughly the size of a car battery. And I use it as a doorstop now, okay? So it's a very impressive piece of technology. At the time, this was space age technology.

So this is gonna be quite hard to make work on a podcast, but down by my feet is a 1980s cell phone. So this is one of the ones that was roughly the size of a car battery. And I use it as a doorstop now, okay? So it's a very impressive piece of technology. At the time, this was space age technology.

This was the coolest thing to have, a mobile phone, a phone you could walk around with that had no cables attached to it and you could make calls. Absolutely brilliant. So they spent a lot of time making the components for that better. They spent a lot of time improving the making of that giant mobile phone.

This was the coolest thing to have, a mobile phone, a phone you could walk around with that had no cables attached to it and you could make calls. Absolutely brilliant. So they spent a lot of time making the components for that better. They spent a lot of time improving the making of that giant mobile phone.

This was the coolest thing to have, a mobile phone, a phone you could walk around with that had no cables attached to it and you could make calls. Absolutely brilliant. So they spent a lot of time making the components for that better. They spent a lot of time improving the making of that giant mobile phone.

But what they were also doing was making the phone better, smaller, cheaper, with more features in it. So I have... littered around my spare room here, these old phones that go from car battery sized giant phones right down to the tiniest little Nokia phone, which is like a like a Mars bar that's been sliced down the middle.

But what they were also doing was making the phone better, smaller, cheaper, with more features in it. So I have... littered around my spare room here, these old phones that go from car battery sized giant phones right down to the tiniest little Nokia phone, which is like a like a Mars bar that's been sliced down the middle.

But what they were also doing was making the phone better, smaller, cheaper, with more features in it. So I have... littered around my spare room here, these old phones that go from car battery sized giant phones right down to the tiniest little Nokia phone, which is like a like a Mars bar that's been sliced down the middle.

It's so thin and so small, right the way up to my nice shiny iPhone, which then got bigger again as more and more features are added in. So manufacturing is about continuous improvement, both of the product as well as making the making of the product better and better. This process of continuous improvement.

It's so thin and so small, right the way up to my nice shiny iPhone, which then got bigger again as more and more features are added in. So manufacturing is about continuous improvement, both of the product as well as making the making of the product better and better. This process of continuous improvement.

It's so thin and so small, right the way up to my nice shiny iPhone, which then got bigger again as more and more features are added in. So manufacturing is about continuous improvement, both of the product as well as making the making of the product better and better. This process of continuous improvement.

So the story of the manufacturing of clothing is an interesting one. It's produced wonderful things, low cost clothing almost all of us can access, but it's also by making it into a disposable product, something we waste a lot of. And the whole idea of fast fashion has perhaps amplified that.

So the story of the manufacturing of clothing is an interesting one. It's produced wonderful things, low cost clothing almost all of us can access, but it's also by making it into a disposable product, something we waste a lot of. And the whole idea of fast fashion has perhaps amplified that.

So the story of the manufacturing of clothing is an interesting one. It's produced wonderful things, low cost clothing almost all of us can access, but it's also by making it into a disposable product, something we waste a lot of. And the whole idea of fast fashion has perhaps amplified that.

If you want to get and to be a really good buyer of clothing, it gets quite tricky because what do we mean by good? So the huge amount of water that's required to make a single pair of jeans is just eye-watering because there's the actual production of the cotton. that needs a lot of water to make that grow because it's quite a tricky crop to grow.

If you want to get and to be a really good buyer of clothing, it gets quite tricky because what do we mean by good? So the huge amount of water that's required to make a single pair of jeans is just eye-watering because there's the actual production of the cotton. that needs a lot of water to make that grow because it's quite a tricky crop to grow.

If you want to get and to be a really good buyer of clothing, it gets quite tricky because what do we mean by good? So the huge amount of water that's required to make a single pair of jeans is just eye-watering because there's the actual production of the cotton. that needs a lot of water to make that grow because it's quite a tricky crop to grow.