Connections
Taking an interdisciplinary approach to the history of science and invention, Connections explores an "Alternative View of Change" that rejects the conventional linear and teleological view of historical progress. To demonstrate this view, Burke begins each episode with a particular event or innovation in the past (usually ancient or medieval) and traces a path from that event through a series of connections to a fundamental and essential aspect of the modern world.
Episodes
1 The Trigger Effect Oct 17, 1978 
2 Death In The Morning Oct 24, 1978 
3 Distant Voices Oct 31, 1978 
4 Faith in Numbers Nov 7, 1978 
5 The Wheel of Fortune Nov 14, 1978 
6 Thunder In The Skies Nov 21, 1978 
7 The Long Chain Nov 28, 1978 
8 Eat, Drink, and Be Merry Dec 5, 1978 
9 Countdown Dec 12, 1978 
10 Yesterday, Tomorrow, and You Dec 19, 1978