Bright Lights, Brilliant Minds: A Tale of Three Cities

Dr James Fox tells the story of three cities in three exceptional years - cities whose artists and thinkers, writers and musicians set the world on a new course.

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Status

Returning Series

Original Name

Bright Lights, Brilliant Minds: A Tale of Three Cities

First Air Date

August 20, 2014

Last Air Date

September 3, 2014

Seasons

1

Episodes

3

Language

English

Production Companies

BBC

Networks

BBC Four

S01E03

New York 1951

Dr James Fox tells the story of New York in 1951, where the world we know today was born. This was the year when Jackson Pollock brought a new dynamism to American painting, when the dazzling jazz style known as bebop hit its stride and when Jack Kerouac defined the Beat Generation with his book On the Road. It was where a young Marlon Brando took cinema by storm, a dapper Brit named David Ogilvy reinvented advertising and modern television arrived with the triumphant debut of a show called I Love Lucy.

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