Episode
How Do They Do It?: Toilet Paper, Absinthe, Cricket Balls
Overview
How do they turn trees into toilet paper? How do they make absinthe and how do they make cricket balls tough enough to face batsmen?
Details
- Series
- How Do They Do It?
- Season
- Season 10
- Episode
- Episode 3
- Air date
- 2013-09-12
- Runtime
- 22 min
Episode context
Toilet Paper, Absinthe, Cricket Balls is Episode 3 in Season 10 of How Do They Do It?. It aired on 2013-09-12. The runtime is 22 min.
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