How Do They Do It?

Opal is mined beneath one hot desert; stunt planes are built based on designs from the early days of flight; workers manufacture nougat.

Saffron; ice roads; Shelby.

How do they make toilet paper; absinthe; and cricket balls.

How lush green salad is cultivated on desert plains; how rigging for ships is made; how life-saving insulin is produced from an ingredient found in a loaf of bread.

Workers manufacture a locomotive; milk is turned into a cake topping; wood is turned into traditional Australian boomerangs.

Sardines are caught, cooked and canned by the billions.

Plane Painting; Clogs; Pasties.

Metalworkers cast bells fit for cathedrals; clearing the wreckage after a storm in America; millions of pounds of dates are harvested from desert oases.

Titan tires; espresso; diamond cutting.

Paris sewers; Beretta; cotton.

Lion dance; tunnel; super sopper.

Pistachios are grown, harvested and processed by the billions; ancient relics from China's Forbidden City are restored; radar systems are built and tested for advanced fighter jets.

Finding out how wrecker trucks are built; how Roquefort cheese is produced; how trees are transported.

How do they produce marble, how do they make mahjong pieces, and how do they build escape slides? Find out as more items are put under microscope.

Finding out how products are manufactured around the world; this episode features information on Kamaz trucks, products for the hair, and the Canton Tower.

One of the world's most expensive cheeses is made with the help of moldy bread. Then, wreckers strong enough to lift tractor trailers are built, and a forest is grown on the side of a skyscraper.

Billions of insects are used to produce fine ink; false eyes are handcrafted; workers create some strong ball bearings.

World-famous Russian nesting dolls are carved from tree trunks.

Chinamax; Russian standard; abalone.

Civet coffee; Petersburg Metro; chipmaker.

Find out how products are made as we reveal the secrets of production. Featuring how leather is produced, Grand Central Station and amazing Flyboard.