Connections

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  • BBC One
  • Documentary History

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Revolutions
Episode overview
Discover how the steam engine led to safety matches, imitation diamonds and the moon in a wild ride.
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Sentimental Journeys
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What has Freud got to do with maps? Or prison reform with blue dye? Or the inside of a star with the Himalayas? India reveals the answers.
2x3
Getting It Together
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Start by examining a SWAT team, which leads to hot air ballooning, the root of many inventions.
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Whodunit?
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Who stole a set of billiard balls in 1902 and why was he the most famous crook in history? The clues: maps from 1775, Charles Darwin's cousin and the FBI.
2x5
Something for Nothing
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Something impossible happened 400 years ago. And we wound up in outer space, thanks (en route) to pigeon lovers, the Pope, and electric Italian frogs.
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Echoes of the Past
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On his way to finding the secret of the universe, Burke takes us to the Buddhist tea ceremony, ties it to international spies and Lincoln's assassination.
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Photo Finish
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The Le Mans 24-hour race is the backdrop for linking photography and bullets, relativity and blimps.
2x8
Separate Ways
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Two trails split over slavery in the 18th Century. One route leads to the Wild West and Brooklyn Bridge, the other coining money and TV. Both end with a threat to peace.
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High Time
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Unwrap a sandwich and you're on a path to World War II radar and Neo-Impressionist painters.
2x10
Déjà Vu
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History repeats itself, when you know how to look. Pizzaro beats the Incas, the first stock market opens. The Queen of England salutes a Mexican beetle and Hitler's plans misfire.
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New Harmony
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Microscopic bugs inspired the novel "Frankenstein" which aided the birth of Socialism.
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Hot Pickle
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The connections between a cup of tea, opium dens, the London Zoo and a switch that releases bombs.
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The Big Spin
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The greatest medical accident in history starts a trail that leads to Helen of Troy, 17th Century flower-power, the invention of soda pop and earthquake detection.
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Bright Ideas
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A Baltimore man invented the bottle, which led to razors and clock springs, and the Hubble telescope.
2x15
Making Waves
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Hairdressers, Gold Rush miners, Irish potato farmers and English parliamentarians are really tied together.
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Routes
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A sick lawyer in 18th Century France changes farming and triggers the French Revolution and new medical research.
2x17
One Word
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One medieval word kicks off the investigation into different cultures with the same stories that ends in cultural anthropology.
2x18
Sign Here
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Dutch piracy starts international law and French probability math, phonetics and Victorian séances.
2x19
Better Than the Real Thing
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How the zipper started with technology Jefferson picked up in Paris during a row about Creation.
2x20
Flexible Response
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Robin Hood starts us on a trail from medieval showbiz to land drainage, to the invention of decimals that end up in U.S. currency, thanks to the guy who started the Erie Canal.

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