BBC World News (DStv 400 / TopTV 400) will broadcast a new 6 part documentary series entitled Ideas That Changed The World, starting on Saturday, October 30 and which will look at some of the big ideas that have changed how we live.
Ideas That Changed The World has Spencer Kelly as the narrator and will feature a string of experts and specialists giving their take in advances in architecture, flight, food, communications, medicine and the economy. They will not only expand on the revolutionary changes within these fields and industries that was sparked by innovative new thinking, but also predict how it will be shaped, influenced and changed in the future.
''There's so many things in our civilization we take for granted,'' says Paul Gibbs, BBC World News' head of programming. ''Ideas That Changed The World looks at the impact some of the great ideas have had on our lives.''
Ideas That Changed The World will look at concrete one of the most revolutionary materials ever introduced in the history of architecture. Aerodynamics and the jet engine is discussed in flight, nitro fertiliser, cross-breeding plants and food preservation is under the spotlight in food, while the theme of communications looks at how the telegraph revolutionised long distance communication. Radio waves, cellphones, libraries and photography are also included. Medicine probes the ideas of the microscope, antibiotics, music theraphy and Chinese medicine. Economy examines the use of paper money, there is taxes, the idea of the company and finally, money.
