The first episode of this six-part series took us from the sounds hunter gatherers made in caves to guide them through the labyrinth to Monteverdi's creation of opera. "It was long, it was loud, it was modern." At the start, Goodall, in a script he had written himself, promised not to baffle us with jargon or "fancy labels". And he didn't. His prose was direct and pithy. Talking about the Greek love of a singing competition he pointed out that "The X Factor is a 3,000 year old format. The epsilon factor. Or Sparta's Got Talent." The invention of the three-note chord called a triad – is like "discovering a chemical reaction. Composers immediately recognised that something transformative had happened."
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