How To Write An Instruction Manual

Welcome to this instruction manual on how to write an instruction manual.

Inside, engineer Mark Miodownik explores the history and the future of product guides and how they chart our changing relationship with technology.

Featuring:

Mr Miodownik - Mark's father, and collector of instruction manuals
Roger Bridgeman,
Kate Layden
Mark Hughes
John Haynes
Rory Cellan-Jones
Paul Ballard
Jonty Wearing
Hugh Dangerfield

French instructions read by Beatrice Murail.

Chinese instructions read by Ruhua Xianyu.

Voice of the Instruction Manual - Pat Whymark

Producer: Michelle Martin

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2009.

Engineer Mark Miodownik explores the history of product guides - what's their future?