How We Got To Now
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1:03:00Host Steven Johnson reveals how clean water has changed our world and the way we live our lives.
Episodes 2015
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57:00Steven Johnson explores the ideas and innovation in sound that changed our lives. Find out how the civil rights movement would have been very different had it not been for the radio. (Final)
57:00Man conquered fire almost half a million years ago but only in the last 200 years have we learned how to make things cold. Steven Johnson kicks off this incredible journey from North America's first and only ice hotel.
56:00For 40,000 years man's only source of light came from the sun and fire... then 150 years ago the switch is flicked on a light revolution. Steven tells the story of the people who take us out of the dark and into the light.
56:00Steven Johnson's journey takes him to Venice, a hall of mirrors and the Mars-like landscape of Mauna Kea in Hawaii. He looks at how mirror gave rise to the greatest cultural movement of our time, the Renaissance.
1:01:00Host Steven Johnson visits the USS Asheville submarine to discover just what a lack of natural light means for a sailor's working day and visits Heathrow to have a go at getting the timings right at air traffic control.
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Steven Johnson explores the ideas and innovation in sound that changed our lives. Find out how the civil rights movement would have been very different had it not been for the radio. (Final) 54:44 Expired
Man conquered fire almost half a million years ago but only in the last two hundred years have we learned how to make things cold. Steven Johnson kicks off this incredible journey from North America's first and only ice hotel. 54:43 Expired
For 40,000 years man's only source of light came from the sun and fire... then 150 years ago the switch is flicked on a light revolution. Steven tells the story of the people who take us out of the dark and into the light. 54:43 Expired
Steven Johnson's journey takes him to Venice, a hall of mirrors and the Mars-like landscape of Mauna Kea in Hawaii. He looks at how mirror gave rise to the greatest cultural movement of our time, the Renaissance. 54:43 Expired
Steven visits the USS Asheville submarine to discover just what a lack of natural light means for a sailor's working day and visits Heathrow to have a go at getting the timings right at air traffic control. 54:43 Expired
Host Steven Johsnon reveals how clean water has changed our world and the way we live our lives.