- Nicholas Crane - Richard Klein Duration: 30 minutes Modern
explorer Nicholas Crane travels across eight maps that changed
the face of Britain in a series of geographical challenges
through some of today's wildest landscapes, telling the story of
British mapmaking from the time of Chaucer through to the
current generation of cyber-mappers. It is an icon of London, a
design classic printed on everything from t-shirts to baseball
caps, but the Underground Map started with one man working in
his bedroom. Harry Beck was an electrical engineer. In 1931 he
realised that his circuit diagrams were a perfect model for a
new map of the underground network. Nicholas Crane travels the
tube to discover how he did it. Why did he exclude everything at
street level and what dictated his choice of colour for each
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