Melvyn Bragg presents five programmes devoted to the written word, and how it has shaped our intellectual history.

Episode 1: How making signs on clay, wood or parchment enabled the development of human culture.
Episode 2: Melvyn considers the impact of the invention of the book.
Episode 3: How the invention of writing influenced the spread of religion.
Episode 4: How the written word, originally used for accountancy, gave rise to human literature.
Episode 5: How the invention of writing made the scientific revolution of the Enlightenment possible.

Melvyn Bragg presents five programmes devoted to the written word, and how it has shaped our intellectual history.

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