This episode features a 300-year-old Japanese sand casting manufacturer that has faced centuries of challenge and change. The Osaka Expo is now underway, introducing cultures and technologies from ...

Barry Humphries likened it to a giant shish kebab. Fifteen artless lumps of ore skewered on a 14-metre pipe from an oil drill, stood upright in a public park. That’s the Ore Obelisk, planted on ...