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Blitz: The Bombs That Changed Britain
Ep1 - Martindale Road
- Broadcast
- 2017 (59 mins)
During the blitz over 450,000 bombs dropped on Britain and every bomb has its own story. This series examines the specific effect of four bombs, from their initial impact on individual lives, right through...
Blitz: The Bombs That Changed Britain
Ep2 - 6th Avenue
- Broadcast
- 2017 (59 mins)
This second episode explores the ramifications of a bomb that fell on 6th Avenue in the port city of Hull, flattening two houses and changing the lives of two families forever. The Taylors lost baby Peter...
Blitz: The Bombs That Changed Britain
Ep3 - Jellicoe Road
- Broadcast
- 2017 (59 mins)
Episode three follows a bomb that fell on Jellicoe Street in the Scottish town of Clydebank. It was a tightly knit community of ship builders and factory workers who worked hard in difficult conditions; for...
Blitz: The Bombs That Changed Britain
Ep4 - St Peter’s Church
- Broadcast
- 2017 (59 mins)
This final episode looks at the deadly impact of the incendiary bomb when an incendiary sets fire to St Peter’s Church in the historic heart of Bristol. Before November 1940 the Castle Street area was...
Calculating Ada-The Countess Of Computing
Calculating Ada - The Countess Of Computing
- Broadcast
- 2016 (59 mins)
In August 1843 a brilliant young countess, Ada Lovelace, approached an irascible inventor to offer her help to secure funding for the world’s first mechanical computer. She alone had grasped the full...
Genius of the Modern World
Marx
- Broadcast
- 2016 (59 mins)
Historian Bettany Hughes retraces the lives of three great thinkers whose ideas shaped the modern world: Karl Marx, Frederick Nietzsche and Sigmund Freud. Born in the C19th, they lived through a time, when...
Genius of the Modern World
Nietzsche
- Broadcast
- 2016 (60 mins)
The 19th century philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche was one of the most brilliant and dangerous minds of the 19th century. His uncompromising and often brutal ideas smashed the comfortable presuppositions and...
Genius of the Modern World
Freud
- Broadcast
- 2016 (59 mins)
Historian Bettany Hughes retraces the lives of three great thinkers whose ideas shaped the modern world. This time she travels to Vienna on the trail of Sigmund Freud - the father of psychoanalysis....
Shakespeare Live
Shakespeare Live
- Broadcast
- 2016 (143 mins)
From the stage of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon, hosts David Tennant and Catherine Tate will be joined by Benedict Cumberbatch, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Dame Helen Mirren, Meera Syal,...
The Secret Life of Children’s Books
Five Children and It - Ep1
- Broadcast
- 2016 (29 mins)
Edith Nesbit is probably best known these days for The Railway Children but her earlier book Five Children and It was even more influential its blend of magic and the everyday paving the way for the Narnia...