Genius of Britain: The Scientists Who Changed the World plot
Britain may be just a small island, but its great scientists and inventors have literally created the modern world: from the invention of the steam engine, computers and the World Wide Web to the discovery of the theory of evolution and the atom. In this five-part series, some of Britain's leading scientific figures (Stephen Hawking, Richard Dawkins, James Dyson, David Attenborough, Robert Winston, Paul Nurse, Jim Al-Khalili, Kathy Sykes and Olivia Judson) tell the stories of the people behind these innovations.