Peter Snow Returns To The Future

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Alan Johnson MP20151012Peter Snow takes Alan Johnson MP on a journey back to a Victorian mill.

Peter Snow and guests board a time-travelling DeLorean to go back and forward in time

Chris Packham20151019

There's no more famous extinct creature than the dodo. In the latest of Peter Snow's trips to the past and the future the nature broadcaster Chris Packham goes back to witness its extinction, then travels forward to 2017 to see the luckless bird resurrected thanks to some unlicensed DNA experiments in a Beijing laboratory.

Nature broadcaster Chris Packham goes back to 1662 to witness the extinction of the dodo.

Peter Snow and guests board a time-travelling DeLorean to go back and forward in time

Genevieve Bell20151022

Peter Snow's guest is the futurist Genevieve Bell who takes him on a journey to meet the monks who compiled the medieval Domesday Book in 1086 then forward to the day after tomorrow and a world shaped by Big Data. But what connects the historical database of the past with the decision shaping data of the future?

Futurist Genevieve Bell takes Peter from the Domesday Book to the world of big data.

Peter Snow and guests board a time-travelling DeLorean to go back and forward in time

Hermione Eyre20151020

The world of fashion takes some unusual turns, and none more extraordinary than this temporal trip to 1640 to witness the last Masque of the Court of Charles I, then forward to a 23rd century fashion show where the models are run off on a 3D printer and the whole thing ends in a riot. Peter Snow feels terribly underdressed but the writer Hermione Eyre keeps him on the straight and narrow.

Writer Hermoine Eyre takes Peter to the 'frow' of a 23rd-century fashion show.

Peter Snow and guests board a time-travelling DeLorean to go back and forward in time

Jonathan Glancey20151023Architectural writer Jonathan Glancey visits Ancient Rome and an empty City of London.

Peter Snow and guests board a time-travelling DeLorean to go back and forward in time

Kate Williams20151016Historian Kate Williams takes Peter Snow's time-travelling car to Queen Victoria's era.

Peter Snow and guests board a time-travelling DeLorean to go back and forward in time

Maggie Aderin-Pocock20151013Space scientist Maggie Aderin-Pocock boards Peter Snow's time-travelling DeLorean.

Peter Snow and guests board a time-travelling DeLorean to go back and forward in time

Robert Peston20151021

Could we one day all be spending the Globo, the global currency? Robert Peston joins Peter Snow's time travelling car and visits the forge of King Alyattes in 600AD to see the minting of the world's first coin, then forward to the 2060 launch of the first universal currency. But what happens in the event of Globo Grexit?

Robert Peston lands another scoop: the 2060 launch of the Globo, the global currency.

Peter Snow and guests board a time-travelling DeLorean to go back and forward in time

Simon Calder20151014Simon Calder time travels on Peter Snow DeLorean to witness the Berlin Wall being built.

Peter Snow and guests board a time-travelling DeLorean to go back and forward in time

Steve Jones20151015Peter Snow takes geneticist Steve Jones on a journey to the past and the future.

Peter Snow and guests board a time-travelling DeLorean to go back and forward in time