Stephen Fry's Great Leap Years – The Stories Behind Inventions

A documentary podcast series, that explores topics ranging from the rise of humankind as the inventor, to the astonishing combination of persistence, investment and inspiration it took to create the Gutenberg Press and the communication technologies that created our world. It tells the story of how our lives have been transformed by a fascinating and compelling mixture of human decision and vision, greed and need. At just under 50 minutes per episode, the series is solely researched and narrated by Stephen Fry and launched globally on the 9th of April 2018 with Episode 1, ‘13381846’. Released weekly over six weeks, the podcasts was made available for download from Acast, Apple Podcasts, Google Play and all podcast aggregators.