Chemistry of Death (TV Series)

Where the Wind Blows (2023)

Harry Treadaway: David Hunter

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• David Hunter : Given the right temperature, everything burns. Wood, clothing, people. At 250 degrees Celsius, flesh will ignite, skin blacken and muscle contract. Of the soft tissue, the organs are always the last to go. Cocooned in moistness, they will hold out till the bitter end. But bone is different. It resists the hottest of fires, often retaining its ghostly shape even when all the carbon has been burned from it. A final bastion stubbornly clinging to the memories of a life once lived.

• David Hunter : Far from being the hard and brittle forms that museums might invoke, skeletons are a living tissue, malleable, responsive. Forever shaping, changing, remoulding, according to the patterns of or lives. Bone records all. An archive of human history, a map of the lived experience.