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Inventions that Shook the World Season 1 Episode 9
It’s the decade of Ronald Reagan and Margret Thatcher; cold war and glasnost; big beats, big hair and fashions that seemed like a good idea at the time. The inventions of the 1980s have us looking inward at our own DNA and outward to the far reaches of space.
Episode Title: The 1980s
Air Date: 2011-07-20
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