John Lennon, Brian Epstein and Paul McCartney at Abbey Road Studios for the Our World live television broadcast in 1967. Photograph: David Magnus/Rex Features

Information Age: All you need is love (and three satellites)

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In 1967, The Beatles and a BBC executive called Aubrey Singer managed to unite the world, albeit briefly, with the first global satellite broadcast

Information Age: Six Networks That Changed Our World at the Science Museum, London, opens on Saturday 25 October

Two hundred years of technology have transformed how we talk to each other, share our lives and learn about the world. On Saturday, the Science Museum in London opens Information Age: Six Networks That Changed Our World, a new permanent gallery of more than 800 objects that tell the story of the information revolution.

To mark the event, this week we have been hosting five fantastic Science Museum videos that reveal some of the greatest breakthroughs in the communications era.

The fifth and final film describes how three satellites in geostationary orbit, a BBC executive and Rock Royalty managed to unite an estimated 400 million people during the first global live broadcast, Our World.