Jonn Elledge - 31 Inventions That Built our World

The author of the Sunday Times bestseller A History of the World in 47 Borders takes us on a journey through the ideas and technologies that made modernity possible, explaining how, for 10,000 years, we humans have been busy altering our environment and making "progress", evolving seamlessly from hunter gatherers to the urban sophisticates we see ourselves as today.

From elevators to electric lighting, and parks to pedestrian crossings, he'll remind us of the innovations that we barely notice, but without which our world would fall apart.

But how did these vital inventions actually come to be?Talking to John Jefferies