With Apollo 8, humans became true space travellers. Join acclaimed environmental historian Tom Griffiths AO, as he reveals how seeing our small fragile planet from Apollo 8 forever changed humanity, and how we view ourselves.

Apollo 8 and Earth Rise: Earth from the Moon, Seeing the Planet Whole

Works That Shaped The World is back for 2020. This year we mark the 250th anniversary of the year 1770, a year of remarkable change on the cusp of the modern world. 

Works The Shaped The World explores humankind's great achievements and astonishing creations. Marking the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing in 1969, the inaugural 2019 series explored the moon through topics ranging from Shakespeare and cinema, to environmental humanities and Pythagoras.

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Works That Shaped The World is back for 2020. This year we mark the 250th anniversary of the year 1770, a year of remarkable change on the cusp of the modern world. Works The Shaped The World explores humankind's great achievements and astonishing creations. Marking the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing in 1969, the inaugural 2019 series explored the moon through topics ranging from Shakespeare and cinema, to environmental humanities and Pythagoras.

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Apollo 8 and Earth Rise: Earth from the Moon, Seeing the Planet Whole