The story of culture is often cast as a gradual evolution, a slow unrolling of new ideas with every passing year. But, for historian Dr. James Fox, art and culture in the 20th century didn’t happen like that. It wasn’t a calmly executed process, but a series of cultural earthquakes centred in particular cities, at particular times. In each episode of this three-part series, Dr. Fox looks at the impact of events in one city during one groundbreaking year: Vienna of 1908, full of fervent minds with revolutionary ideas like Freud, Schoenberg and Egon Schiele; Paris of 1928, the city the Surrealists reimagined and American writers and composers fell in love with; and New York of 1951, where the dazzling jazz style known as bebop hit its stride, a dapper Brit named David Ogilvy reinvented advertising, and modern television arrived with the triumphant debut of a show called I Love Lucy.