Monkman & Seagull’s Genius Adventures (2020)

Country

United Kingdom

How it feels

Two friends who first met as quiz show rivals travel around the UK. They explore the inventions and ideas from the Industrial Revolution to the Victorian era.

educationallivelycuriousgood-naturedwhimsicalinformativeupbeatnostalgic

What happens

Monkman & Seagull's Genius Adventures is a BBC documentary series presented by Eric Monkman and Bobby Seagull, a duo who met as rivals on the quiz programme University Challenge and became friends, coauthors and TV and radio show cohosts. The show is a follow on from their 2018 series Monkman & Seagull's Genius Guide to Britain, it is a road trip around the United Kingdom, time-travelling through a key 150 years from the Industrial Revolution to the Victorian era. The show aired in 2020 with a voiceover supplied by Simon Callow. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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