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The Ascent of Man : Season 1
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Air date: 05 May '73 - 13 episodesThe Ascent of Man is a thirteen-part documentary television series produced by the BBC and Time-Life Films first transmitted in 1973, written and presented by Jacob Bronowski. Intended as a series of "personal view" documentaries in the manner of Kenneth Clark's 1969 series Civilisation, the series received acclaim for Bronowski's highly informed but eloquently simple analysis, his long unscripted monologues and its extensive location shoots.
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List of Episodes (13)
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The Ascent of Man (1973)
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1. Lower Than the Angels
05 May '73The programme follows the changes in Man as he marches out of Africa, through desert and ice age, to leave the print of his hand in a dark Spanish cave.
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2. The Harvest of the Seasons
12 May '73As the ice retreats and the land flowers, Man the hunter turns to agriculture, domesticating plant and animal, imposing his will on the wild wheat and the horse.
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3. The Grain in the Stone
19 May '73The wandering nomads cease their migrations and settle in townships, learning new skills.
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4. The Hidden Structure
26 May '73The programme follows the beginnings of chemistry: from the techniques of ancient metallurgy in China and Japan to the mystical searchings of the alchemists.
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5. Music of the Spheres
02 Jun '73Mathematics is a way of describing the world that we see, hear and touch.
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6. The Starry Messenger
09 Jun '73From the earliest times, Man has looked outwards from the earth and wondered at the movements of sun, stars and planets. The programme hinges on the crisis of the scientific conscience in the person of the astronomer Galileo and in the rich cities of Venice and Rome, the scenes both of his triumph and his punishment.
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7. The Majestic Clockwork
16 Jun '73The universe of Newton, clear, English, stately, like the music and the great buildings of his century ticking away with a fine clockwork mechanism, wisely regulated by laws. Then the quizzical world of Einstein whose direct truth and questions could turn the dignified universe upside-down in the interests of a clearer understanding. We ride with Einstein on his beam of light to end our journey in our own century.
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8. The Drive for Power
23 Jun '73
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9. The Ladder of Creation
30 Jun '73
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10. World Within World
07 Jul '73
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11. Knowledge or Certainty
14 Jul '73
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12. Generation Upon Generation
21 Jul '73
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13. The Long Childhood
28 Jul '73
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