An infographic event with statistical legend Professor Hans Rosling.

This surprising and uplifting documentary will radically change the way you think about the state of the world and where it’s heading.

Legendary statistician Hans Rosling is famous for his extraordinary infographics revealing the big picture about the world’s key trends. In this programme he offers real evidence of grounds for hope of an end to extreme poverty around the world. Rosling’s extraordinary, funny and content-packed performances make him one of the world’s most sought after public speakers - he was listed in 2012 in TIME magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World. In this film, timed to coincide with the launch at the United Nations Summit of development goals for the next generation, Rosling charts where we’ve come from, where we are and where the world is heading when it comes to the ambitious new goal of eradicating extreme poverty worldwide. The result is an evidence-based account that offers real hope for a better world in the future. This is not just a fascinating as-live studio show brought to life with innovative and spectacular holographic-style projection technology but contains powerful human drama, with films focusing on the lives of two typical families as they face potentially life-changing events – one in Malawi and the other in Cambodia.

Rosling’s 2013 BBC programme Don’t Panic - The Truth about Population - a similar format to the new film - won the RTS Journalism Prize for Innovation. His The Joy of Stats won the Grierson Award for Best Science/Natural History. The sequence ‘200 countries, 200 years, 4 minutes’ from that film remains a viral sensation – viewed nearly 7m times.

If you would like to join us on Friday 28th August at The ITV London Studios for an entertaining and informative night, then apply now!

The evening show is now fully booked - but there will be a dress rehearsal in the afternoon.