The Genius of Invention
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| Genre | Factual |
| Directed by | Victoria Bell |
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| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language | English |
| No. of series | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 4 (list of episodes) |
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| Executive producer | Dominic Crossley-Holland |
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| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Production company | BBC Productions |
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| Release | 24 January – 14 February 2013 |
The Genius of Invention is a British factual television series that was broadcast on BBC Two between 24 January 2013 and 14 February 2013. The series looks over the history of British inventions.
Production
[edit | edit source]On 23 August 2013, BBC Two controller Janice Hadlow announced the commissioning of the series.[1] The main presenters of the series were Mark Miodownik, Cassie Newland and Michael Mosley.[2]
Episode list
[edit | edit source]| # | Title | Original air date | UK viewers (millions)[3] | |
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| 1 | "Power" | 24 January 2013 | 1.60 | |
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How Britain uses power through technology. | ||||
| 2 | "Speed" | 31 January 2013 | N/A | |
| 3 | "Communication" | 7 February 2013 | N/A | |
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The formation of machines that allow communication across the globe. | ||||
| 4 | "Visual Image" | 14 February 2013 | N/A | |
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The inventors who discovered how to reproduce still and moving images. | ||||
Reception
[edit | edit source]Terry Ramsey of The Daily Telegraph gave the series three out of five stars and said that "despite the jumpy style and occasionally annoying chat, it had a lot of appealing science packed in, all neatly wrapped up so it didn’t even feel like we were learning. And it served as a useful reminder of just how much we rely on electricity."[4] The Independent's Tom Sutcliffe said "everything from presentational style to the level of the material it contains it's essentially a children's programme. In fact, it calls for a new verb: to Bluepeterise, a shorthand for the increasingly fashionable technique of dividing the content up between three puppyishly eager presenters".[5] Lucy Mangan, writing for The Guardian called it "terrible".[2]
DVD release
[edit | edit source]The series was released in the original English as a region 2 DVD set by a Dutch company in 2015.
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External links
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- 2013 British television series debuts
- 2013 British television series endings
- 2010s British documentary television series
- BBC television documentaries
- BBC high definition shows
- 2010s British television miniseries
- Documentary television series about technology
- British English-language television shows
- Works about the history of photography