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Breakthrough: The Ideas That Changed the World (2019)
1 season6 episodes59 min per episode
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.
- First aired
- April 21, 2019
- Last episode
- May 26, 2019
- Network
- PBS, BBC Four
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
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Cast
- Jim Al-Khalili as Self - Presenter
- Danielle George as Self - Engineer
- Danielle George as Self - Radiophysics Engineer
- James Meigs as Self - Science Writer
- Tiera Fletcher as Self - Aeronautical Engineer
- Tiera Fletcher as Self - Rocket Engineer, Boeing
- Alice Roberts as Self - Biological Anthropologist
- Saul David as Self - Historian
- Richard Garriott as Self - Entrepreneur and Private Astronaut
- Derrick Pitts as Self - Chief Astronomer, The Franklin Institute
- Brandon Mikesell as Self - Wingsuit Pilot
- Shini Somara as Self - Fluid Dynamicist