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	Ended
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
Episode Runtime	1h 0min
Language	English
Original Language	English
Production Countries	—
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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