Episode
How Do They Do It?: Screws, Marmalade, Printed Dresses
Overview
Building a fighter jet; Turning bitter oranges into marmalade; Printing out a dress fit for the catwalk.
Details
- Series
- How Do They Do It?
- Season
- Season 12
- Episode
- Episode 5
- Air date
- 2015-06-04
- Runtime
- 22 min
Episode context
Screws, Marmalade, Printed Dresses is Episode 5 in Season 12 of How Do They Do It?. It aired on 2015-06-04. The runtime is 22 min.
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