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Geniuses and their ideas are the starting point in the story of artificial cold. Steven Johnson reveals how men like Edward Tudor, who transported a frozen New England lake to the tropics, and Clarence Birdseye, the man behind the science that made frozen food an everyday commodity, were instrumental in shaping the modern the world. Not only does Steven explore how the rise of the refrigerator changed diets, but also how the advent of air conditioning led to new population centres, and in the US even influenced the outcome of presidential elections.

As part of the Richer World season Steven Johnson, the bestselling science writer, reads from his latest book How We Got to Now where he examines inventive minds, brilliant mistakes and the surprising connections that gave us the everyday objects that have made the modern world.