In Our Time is a Talk Show programme.

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In Our Time: The Written World (Part 5)

Series 1, episode 0

Melvyn Bragg considers the history of the written word. Bragg concludes his survey of the written word by considering how the invention of writing made the scientific revolution of the Enlightenment possible - and examining influential documents, including the student notebooks of Sir Isaac Newton