A History of Wool
For an exhibition earlier this year entitled The History of Wool: From Functional to Fashionable, curator Charlotte Smith started 10,000 years ago on the plains of faraway Mesopotamia, long before wool was spun, and tracked the growth of the wool industry across the world.
Part of Radio National's Summer Season this story first went to air on March 24, 2010.
- Charlotte Smith & her books
- Author, Dreaming of Dior and "Dreaming of Chanel", both published by Harper Collins
- Alan Saunders
- Janne Ryan