Find out what Play-Doh has to do with sooty walls. And how we have a nursery teacher called Kay Zufall and a TV presenter called Captain Kangaroo to thank for it.

Our guest is Chris Bensch from the Strong Museum of Play, surely the world’s funnest museum. Chris takes us for a jaunt down memory. Along the way we sniff deeply from a tub of everyone's favourite modelling compound.

If you could spritz yourself with a Play-Doh scented perfume, would you?

The episode was produced by Freddy Chick

The editor was Anisha Deva

The senior producer is Charlotte Long

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