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The Maggot Challenge

Would you be brave enough to try George's maggot challenge? The visitors to the After Life exhibition put their disgust instinct to the test.

For two months in summer 2011, a glass box containing a typical kitchen and garden was left to rot. In this resulting documentary, presenter Dr George McGavin and his team use time-lapse cameras and specialist photography to capture the extraordinary way in which moulds, microbes and insects are able to break down our everyday things and allow new life to emerge from old.

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