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The Gutenberg Press

Posted on 18. Apr, 2008 by Ralf Herrmann in Typography

In this BBC broadcast Stephen Fry examines the story behind the first media entrepreneur Johann Gutenberg, to find out how he printed his famous Bibles.

If you are in the UK you can watch the 60-minute broadcast here, all others can watch it on YouTube, splitted into 6 parts.

• Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91smRXrEPRs
  
• Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qM0FKWpNTUc
• Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=souzdLjgrzM
• Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIur4eiOR38
• Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgNCvgSICbc
• Part 6: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWeMK-Q9NMQ

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