S2 EP9 - Wrapping Up
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Stephen Fry's Great Leap Years
Stephen Fry's Great Leap Years explores topics ranging from the rise of humankind as the inventor, to the astonishing combination of persistence, investment and inspiration it took to create...
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17 episodes
S2 EP8 - Sloth
Yes, we’ve come to the seventh of the seven deadly sins. Sloth. Is it sloth as in both, or sloth as in moth? Whichever, sloth lives inside u...
S2 EP7 - Wrath
Mister ANGRY has been unleashed from his rage cage. Let’s drink together some of the wine from his grapes of wrath. Furious to know more? Ho...
S2 EP6 - Gluttony
Loosen your waistbands and gorge with me until you gasp. It’s Gluttony - the devil that drives us to all kinds of addiction and excess *burp...
S2 EP5 - Envy
I confess. I’ve been guilty of envy. It’s not a pretty vice. And now I envy YOU - all the pleasure of this fresh new podisode ahead of you....
S2 EP4 - Lust
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S2 EP3 - Greed
Avarice, or Greed as we would call it today, now there’s a proper vice, one we can all surely identify with, claim and confess to. One of th...
S2 EP2 - Pride
For two thousand years Pride has stood at the very top of the list of the Seven Deadly Sins. Perhaps no longer. Perhaps a new sin is rising...
S2 EP1 - Introduction
An exploration of the human heart. In this new series I will take each one of the Seven Sins in turn, lay them out on the surgical table and...
Trailer — Season 2: 7 Deadly Sins
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S1 EP6 - Great Leap Years - The Iotatron that Wasn't
Series 1 Finale! Across the ocean of discovery the swells are building with ever increasing mass and speed. The swells of robotics, AI, nano...
S1 EP5 - Great Leap Years - Let's Play Monopoly
The War of the Currents and a new type of person arises, an almost wholly American invention - the salesman. The foundations are set for the...
S1 EP4 - Great Leap Years - Raising the Vail and Catching the Tube
The sperm whale, Bell Labs, vacuum tubes and the dawning age of information at the speed of light. Researched, written & read by Stephen Fry...
S1 EP3 - Great Leap Years - Bells, Nobels, More Bells and Prizes
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 cent...
S1 EP2 - Great Leap Years - A Faustian Pact
A medieval tech start-up led by serial entrepreneur Johannes Gutenberg and his invention that unleashed a societal revolution. As Europe rec...
S1 EP1 - Great Leap Years - When We Were Very Young
Far out in the ocean of discovery huge swells have been gathering and combining to create the great tsunami that will soon engulf us, We loo...
Trailer — Season 1: Great Leap Years
Stephen Fry previews his epic new documentary podcast series entitled Stephen Fry’s Great Leap Years – the stories behind inventions . Hoste...