100 Years of TV

Mark and Pete · Feb 6, 2026 · 10m · transcript

2026 marks an extraordinary milestone: 100 years since the invention of television, the glowing box that quietly reshaped modern civilisation while we were busy eating microwave dinners and arguing over the remote control.

In this episode of Mark and Pete, we explore how television didn’t merely entertain us, but fundamentally changed how we think, how we relate, how we worship, and how we understand truth itself. From the first experimental broadcasts in the 1920s to the rise of mass media empires, TV turned politics into theatre, news into narrative, and public life into performance.

But…