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Tasting the world's most divisive fruit

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It's banned from public transport and once got a whole library evacuated but millions of people across the world can't get enough of durian - the spiky green fruit that's smell has been compared to rotten eggs and gym socks. Elly Duncan travelled all the way to Malaysia to see if she could stomach it all.
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