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U.K. prodco Nutopia’s new four-part series,
Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer, has found a home on BBC4 and iPlayer. The series studies the science and medical innovations that conquered some of the world’s deadliest diseases and doubled life expectancies for many around the world.
Historian and broadcaster David Olusoga (pictured;
Civilisations,
The Ghost Map,
How We Got To Now) join forces to lead viewers across 300 years of medical innovation and go behind the scenes of modern medicine to meet the unsung heroes who are tackling COVID-19 and other public health threats.
“The revolution in medicine and public health that has taken place over the past three centuries is one of the greatest achievements of all time,” Olusoga said in a statement. “The series is a history of unsung heroes and forgotten pioneers whose incredible stories deserve to be better known.”
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I’m not a
Radiolab listener so I had no idea that the New York Public Radio show’s director of research, Latif Nasser, had a docuseries quietly debut on Netflix in August. On
Connected: The Hidden Science Of Everything, Nasser explores broad topics like surveillance, dust, and even poop sharing how things that we never realized are related can have an impact halfway across the globe. Did you know, for example, that observing the behavior of birds in Delaware is helping scientists get more accurate hurricane season predictions?
Connected’s six-episode season was the perfect find for me, since I still lament that we haven’t gotten more of Steven Johnson’s PBS series,
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Following the release and tour of critically acclaimed fourth album How We Got To Now in 2015, The Broken Heartbreakers retreated to the wings, the core songwriting duo of John Guy Howell and Rachel Bailey stepping out only occasionally over the past few years.
The Broken Heartbreakers are excited to be heading back to play their old haunt, the Wine Cellar for two shows in January with a five-piece line-up that sees singer/guitarists Howell and Bailey joined by Craig Monk (violin, guitar), Angus McBryde (bass) and Paul McLennan-Kissel (drums) for a journey through the band’s full catalogue and new material.
Gig Information
Following the release and tour of critically acclaimed fourth album How We Got To Now in 2015, The Broken Heartbreakers retreated to the wings, the core songwriting duo of John Guy Howell and Rachel Bailey stepping out only occasionally over the past few years.
The Broken Heartbreakers are excited to be heading back to play their old haunt, the Wine Cellar for two shows in January with a five-piece line-up that sees singer/guitarists Howell and Bailey joined by Craig Monk (violin, guitar), Angus McBryde (bass) and Paul McLennan-Kissel (drums) for a journey through the band’s full catalogue and new material.