'For instance, spirits were flammable.

Give me something to burn. It's my last match.

We're looking at a lot of compounds, but recently been quite interested in the flame retardants, the brominated flame retardants that are in many, many things that we use in our everyday life, from the cushions in the chairs we're all sitting on to the plastic casings of our computers, our television sets and so on.

It's an old temple building technique from Japan but bamboo is very fire susceptible.

But I was the recipient of a lot of flame retardant material for some reason.