Connections
Back in the late 70s, the BBC debuted a science education show called \u201cConnections\u201d...the host was James Burke, an affable, professorish guy, usually dressed in a beige polyester leisure suit who gave the term \u201cinterdisciplinary\u201d a whole new meaning...\nHis thing was to take disparate developments in science and technology and show how they were actually interconnected in ways that led to our modern world...nothing, he demonstrated, existed in isolation over the long term...\nOne show connected the invention of the cannon to the first movie project in the late 1800s...there were obviously a lot of steps in between, but Burke was able to draw a very clear line...another demonstrated the few degrees of separating between drinking gin and tonics to astronomers discovering the true size of the universe...\n\u201cConnections\u201d remains one of my all-time favourite TV shows...and to be honest, more than a little of this program is inspired by the way James Burke was able to tie things together...\nI\u2019ve always wanted to create a proper \u201cconnections\u201d-type show, but it\u2019s been hard because so much knowledge and research and analysis and synthesis is required...and if I\u2019m honest, what you\u2019re about to hear has taken years to pull together...I hope I can do things justice...\nHere is my attempt to create some connections between rock music and some seemingly unconnected inventions, events, and discoveries from the past...\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices