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Breakthrough: The Ideas That Changed the World

2019 – 2019 · PBS
1 seasons · 6 episodes
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Take a mind-blowing journey through human history, told through six iconic objects that modern people take for granted, and see how science, invention and technology built on one another to change everything.

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Jim Al-Khalili
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Patrick Stewart
Narrator (voice)
Robert Ryan
Louis Daguerre

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Ended
Type
Documentary
First aired
Apr 21, 2019
Original language
EN
Production
Bigger Bang, BBC TV
Country
GB

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