that will be mosul encounter with maurice ward. on the family farm wondering if his claims that about. there was this mysterious figure and harder to come to discover starlite? tell us about maurice ward, and your dad. what was he like? a very eccentric man, like his own way. had a mind of his own and nobody could tell him. a lot of people did not get on with him because i think the way he was. well, maurice was, of course it was a very elegant chap, whitehead, white eared, turned out nicely. i was very fond of maurice. he had congregated character, which was engaging to people like me. to some extent, he was an otherworldly sort of character. at the short spells in the police and other chemical firm, spells in the police and other chemicalfirm, maurice opened a ladies‘s hair salon. chemicalfirm, maurice opened a ladies's hair salon. he started off in hairdressing, he was very successful. he did paul daniels's and lots of other people, travel the world. what colouring and permanent to the country in the sixties. maurice was a showm

maurice was a big showman, and he loved being the centre of attention. as a hairdresser, it's said warderred to himself as "maurice of paris". and while he was doing hairdressing, he used to make his own wigs. and cos he used to do all the fibres for the hair, i think this is where the scientist stuff came in. maurice had an interest in chemicals and materials and tinkered in his makeshift lab, but it was a tragic accident that would focus his mind. newsreel: the worst british air disaster for 13 years. 5a people are killed at manchester airport, trapped in a burning plane. there was a big aviation disaster in manchester. a lot of people were killed, and people died from fumes, not from the fire itself. and so, maurice was trying to come up with a product which would deal with that. he was burning rubbish in his back garden and he happened to, in fact, notice that part of it didn't burn, itjust did not burn. so he tried to use oxy gas torches, and it still didn't burn. so maurice essentially discovered starlite completely by accident? he discovered a potential version of it completely b

first off, let me say we are pleased to see the bbc taking up the story of maurice ward, whose amazingarch. we heard about a us company, thermashield, through keith lewis. one of the partners in that firm first contacted maurice back in 2008 and bought the intellectual rights to starlite in october 2013. that included notes, test reports and samples from the boeing and white sands tests. we have been in touch with steve mink from thermashield and we asked him for an interview. he politely declined, saying the company was keeping a low profile until they are ready to launch the product. but he did send us a video statement and some footage from their very own egg test. thermashield produced samples, we built high—powered laser attacks at power densities far exceeding prior laser testing. also an 18—year—old legacy sample from the boeing test cycles sustained equivalent laser attacks without a mark, proving its performance, stability over time. steve talks about how they are looking to use starlite for very similar applications as those identified by maurice, nikki and others. in america