Dough - The Future of Clothing
Sliced Bread
BBC
4.6 • 695 Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Could 'smart' clothing monitor our health?
Greg Foot, host of the BBC Radio 4 show 'Sliced Bread', now brings you 'Dough'.
Each episode explores future wonder products that might rise to success and redefine our lives.
Experts and entrepreneurs discuss the trends shaping what today's everyday technology may look like tomorrow, before a leading futurist offers their predictions on what life might be like within five, ten and fifty years.
This episode examines the future of our clothing.
How can manufacturers dye clothes without using water? Could 'smart' fabrics monitor weather conditions and provide extra warmth or cooling when we need it? Will our body movements, instead of bulky batteries, provide the power for clothing to monitor our health? Will synthetic material be completely replaced by natural fibres and those made from waste products?
Greg is joined by the futurist, Tracey Follows, and expert guests Dr Marie O'Mahony, programme leader for E-textiles and Wearable Technologies at the Winchester School of Art at the University of Southampton and Jenny Prendergast, Programme Leader for Fashion and Design Technology at Loughborough University.
This episode was produced by Jay Unger.
Dough is a BBC Audio North Production for BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, radio podcasts. |
| 0:07.3 | Right, you feeling ready? I'm feeling ready. |
| 0:10.8 | I'm Amal Rajin. Join me on my new podcast for in-depth conversations with pioneers and |
| 0:16.0 | innovators, talking about the trends and ideas that could help shape and change our future. |
| 0:21.4 | We are going to be digital citizens of this AI world, whether we like it or not. |
| 0:26.2 | From declining birth rates to disinformation online, can they solve the world's biggest challenges? |
| 0:32.0 | What I would love to do is go to the transfer and say radically cut the taxes of those with children. |
| 0:37.3 | Radical with me, Amal Rajan. |
| 0:39.3 | Listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:43.7 | Hello, I'm Greg Foote and welcome to Doe, the BBC Radio 4 show that explores future wonder products |
| 0:49.4 | that might rise to success and redefine our lives. |
| 0:53.1 | Each episode, I sit down with entrepreneurs and experts |
| 0:55.6 | to discuss what today's everyday technology may look like tomorrow. This time we're discussing |
| 1:00.9 | the future of our clothes, asking just how smart they may become. Could your jacket give you |
| 1:07.5 | directions? And how about a Wi-Fi-connected T-shirt made of mushrooms? |
| 1:17.3 | Here to help me walk the catwalk and navigate the technological couture of tomorrow. |
| 1:23.1 | It's the fashion Easter of the future, the world-renowned futurist Tracy follows. |
| 1:27.2 | Hi, Greg. Hi, Craig. |
| 1:27.8 | Hi, Tracy. You've worked with a number of notable clients helping them develop their long-term |
| 1:32.3 | strategy with all this, the likes of Google, Sky, Condonast, Virgin. I mean, it's a very impressive |
| 1:37.4 | CV. What do you think is the biggest change happening right now in the clothes and fashion industry? |
| 1:42.9 | Oh, by far the biggest challenge is the one around sustainability. |
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