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The programme examines aspects of quarrying in Co Antrim, illustrating how the extraction of rock can affect people and the landscape. The quarry industry is of major importance in the modern world. Today we depend upon it to construct, improve and maintain our homes, workplaces, hospitals, schools, shops, leisure facilities, roads, railways, water and sewage systems, airports, docks and nearly all the other structures that make up our "built" environment. Crushed rock from quarrying is also used in iron, steel and cement manufacture, to clean power station emissions, to increase the productivity of agricultural land, to reduce acidification of both land and water and to produce paints, medicines and plastics. Sand is additionally used to make glass. In the programme Donna Traynor looks at some aspects of quarrying in County Antrim.