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  1. 10. Maps of the Mind

    10/10 Mike Parker visits Ambridge, home of the Archers, to explore maps of the imagination.

  2. 9. Digital Maps

    9/10 Mike Parker looks at cartography in the digital age and asks if the paper map can survive.

  3. 8. Whose Map Is It Anyway?

    8/10 Mike Parker asks if Ordnance Survey can maintain its hold on the national topography.

  4. 7. Off the Map

    7/10 Mike Parker visits a Cold War military site that was once a blank space on a map.

  5. 6. World View

    6/10 Cartographers always have to keep one eye on the map and one on new territorial disputes.

  6. 5. The Lie of the Land

    5/10 Mike Parker discovers how maps can be used as tools of power, politics and propaganda.

  7. 4. Social Mapping

    4/10 How society is now being analysed online in cartographic mash-ups and crowd-sourced data.

  8. 3. Motoring Maps

    3/10 In exploration of cartography, Mike Parker recalls a bygone age of elegant motoring maps.

  9. 2. Mapping the Metropolis

    2/10 Mike Parker finds out what makes the ideal map for steering us through the urban jungle.

  10. 1. The Map Makers

    1/10 Mike Parker explores the maps he fell in love with as a teenager - Ordnance Survey maps.