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• Trailer — Season 1: Great Leap Years

  Stephen Fry previews his epic new documentary podcast series entitled Stephen Fry’s Great Leap Years – the stories behind inventions. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  2 apr 2018 150 sec.

• S1 EP1 - Great Leap Years - When We Were Very Young

  Far out in the ocean of discovery huge swells have been gathering and combining to create the great tsunami that will soon engulf us, We look back at how innovation in technology has, from the first, changed our ways of living, our...

  9 apr 2018 2507 sec.

• S1 EP2 - Great Leap Years - A Faustian Pact

  A medieval tech start-up led by serial entrepreneur Johannes Gutenberg and his invention that unleashed a societal revolution. As Europe recovered from the scourge of the Black Death, a young man from a family that had made its name...

  16 apr 2018 3051 sec.

• S1 EP3 - Great Leap Years - Bells, Nobels, More Bells and Prizes

  The spark that Napoleon sent across the century from Paris to New York with the prize fund that seeded the Bell Labs energised the next century's, in ways that the emperor could never have guessed at. Researched, written & read...

  23 apr 2018 3256 sec.

• S1 EP4 - Great Leap Years - Raising the Vail and Catching the Tube

  The sperm whale, Bell Labs, vacuum tubes and the dawning age of information at the speed of light. Researched, written & read by Stephen Fry. Music composed and conducted by Guy Farley with The Chamber Orchestra of London. Hosted...

  30 apr 2018 3322 sec.

• S1 EP5 - Great Leap Years - Let's Play Monopoly

  The War of the Currents and a new type of person arises, an almost wholly American invention - the salesman. The foundations are set for the rise of one of the mightiest company's the world had ever seen - International Business...

  7 mei 2018 3580 sec.

• S1 EP6 - Great Leap Years - The Iotatron that Wasn't

  Series 1 Finale! Across the ocean of discovery the swells are building with ever increasing mass and speed. The swells of robotics, AI, nano science, the internet of things, quantum computing, genomics, gene editing, bio-augmentation,...

  14 mei 2018 3912 sec.

• Trailer — Season 2: 7 Deadly Sins

  Stephen Fry's 7 Deadly Sins is coming in early 2020 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  30 dec 2019 34 sec.

• S2 EP1 - Introduction

  An exploration of the human heart. In this new series I will take each one of the Seven Sins in turn, lay them out on the surgical table and poke, prod, pry and provoke in an attempt to try to anatomise and understand them; I hope and...

  13 jan 2020 1936 sec.

• S2 EP2 - Pride

  For two thousand years Pride has stood at the very top of the list of the Seven Deadly Sins. Perhaps no longer. Perhaps a new sin is rising to replace it. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  20 jan 2020 1698 sec.

• S2 EP3 - Greed

  Avarice, or Greed as we would call it today, now there’s a proper vice, one we can all surely identify with, claim and confess to. One of the defining quotations of the materialistic 1980s came from the fictional character Gordon Gecko,...

  27 jan 2020 2023 sec.

• S2 EP4 - Lust

  You know you want it. You know you do. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  3 feb 2020 2386 sec.