Jimmy Nail and aired in 2002, with audience figures of over 12 million. Another series saw the brickies holed up in Cuba, and the final two-hour instalment, set in Laos, broadcast over Christmas 2004 attracting over seven million viewers. After the first two series of "Auf Wiedersehen, Pet", Nail found himself typecast before creating the detective series "Spender", which he co-wrote with Ian La Frenais. The show ran for three series from 1991 to 1993 and also produced a tele-film and a novel. This was followed in 1994 by "Crocodile Shoes", which he also created and starred as musician Jed Shepherd. In
Footwear certain countries around the world. Modern footwear is usually made up of leather or plastic, and rubber. In fact, leather was one of the original materials used for the first versions of a shoe. The soles can be made of rubber or plastic, sometimes having a sheet of metal inside. Roman sandals had sheets of metal on their soles so that it would not bend out of shape. More recently, footwear providers like Nike, have begun to source environmentally friendly materials. In Europe, the footwear industry has declined in the last years. Whereas in 2005, there were about 27,000 firms,