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

  • Apr 23 2018
  • Length: 54 mins
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S1 EP3 - Great Leap Years - Bells, Nobels, More Bells and Prizes

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  • 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 by Stephen Fry. Music composed and conducted by Guy Farley with The Chamber Orchestra of London. 


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