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Top Gear host explores the innovations that made the modern era

"Infectiously enjoyable" —London Evening Standard (U.K.)
"Entertaining and informative" —The Observer (U.K.)

"A gleeful bombardment of boyish whizz-bangs" —The Sunday Telegraph (U.K.)

Top Gear’s James May revisits the 20th century to discover how inventors and their innovations changed the way we live today. With his trademark curiosity, insight, and wit, he shows how new technologies have revolutionized every aspect of our lives—how we made the world smaller, conquered space, improved our bodies, modernized warfare, built our cities, and created the teenager. In this engaging and entertaining six-part series, May travels from continent to continent, as well as back in time, to learn how we enhanced the world around us and improved ourselves.