The new BBC Sounds app – available on mobile devices and desktop PCs – features an archive programme on inventor James Watt.

You can listen to the audio here.

Presenter Naomi Alderman talks to the historian Jenny Uglow about the five friends who kick-started the Industrial Revolution. The 26-minute programme was first broadcast in 2015.

If you spot radio or TV programmes about Watt and the Industrial Revolution, let us know. Tweet us @Watt2019

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