Eureka Years, The

Last Edited: 23-Sep-2019 A Global British Comedy Collaborative document. Edited by John Lucas
Broadcast source is BBC Radio Four unless otherwise indicated. Recording quality is considered good unless otherwise indicated.
Date Title Cast Parameters
09-Oct-2004 to
23-Oct-2004
  1. 1665 -- Newton's Apple
  2. 1907 -- Ernest Shackleton Free of scurvy
  3. 1769 -- Richard Arkwright 's water-driven spinning frame
  4. 1939 -- nuclear fission, nylon and LSD
 Adam Hart-Davis
Producer: John Byrne
14-Jan-2006 to
28-Jan-2006
  1. 1799 -- laughing gas
  2. 1901 -- Tarmac, the electrocardiogram, the Texas
    oil industry
  3. 550 BC -- Pythagoras and Thales
 Adam Hart-Davis
Producer: John Byrne 		3 files
1:22:56, 75.9 MB, S
29-Aug-2007 to
19-Sep-2007
repeated
19-May-2009 to
09-Jun-2009
  1. 1965 -- the race to the Moon, the early version of
    the internet
  2. 1866 -- The Origin of Species
  3. 1628 -- blood circulates round the body
  4. 1905 -- relativity
 Adam Hart-Davis
Producer: John Byrne
27:36, 25880, S
27:28, 25753, S
27:31, 25803, S
27:30, 25791, S
11-Jul-2008 to
01-Aug-2008
  1. 1650 - Coffee, Cosmology and the Civil War
  2. 1923 - Traffic Lights and Frozen Food
  3. 1893 -- the internal combustion engine
  4. 1879 -- the light bulb and the first moving pictures
 Adam Hart-Davis
Producer: Mary Ward-Lowery 		4 files
1:50:43, 101 MB, S
26-Dec-2008
 		The Eureka Years at Christmas
the history of technology at Christmas
 		Adam Hart-Davis
Producer: Mary Ward-Lowery