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The Secret Life of Books Series 2
Confessions of an English Opium Eater
- Broadcast
- 2015 (29 mins)
Poet and writer John Cooper Clarke explores the story behind Thomas de Quincey’s notorious nineteenth century book Confessions of an English Opium Eater. One of the first portrayals of recreational drug...
The Secret Life of Books Series 2
The Faerie Queen
- Broadcast
- 2015 (29 mins)
Dr Janina Ramirez uncovers the surprising story behind one of the most influential poems in the English language: Edmund Spenser’s 16th century epic The Faerie Queene. Written at the end of the 16th...
The Secret Life of Books Series 2
Swallows and Amazons
- Broadcast
- 2015 (29 mins)
First published in 1930 Swallows and Amazons recounts the adventures of the Walker and Blackett children and their idyllic summer holiday camping and sailing in an imaginary Lake District landscape;...
Genius of the Ancient World
Socrates
- Broadcast
- 2015 (59 mins)
In this second Episode, Bettany investigates the revolutionary ideas of Socrates. Socarate was born in Athens during a creative, yet extremely tumultuous period of Greek history. Athens had given birth to...
Genius of the Ancient World
Buddha
- Broadcast
- 2015 (59 mins)
In this first episode Bettany Hughes investigates the revolutionary ideas of the Buddha. In his 20s the Buddha abandoned his family and homeland in the foothils of the Himalayas to embark on an ambitious...
Genius of the Ancient World
Confucius
- Broadcast
- 2015 (59 mins)
In this 3rd episode, Bettany investigates the game-changing ideas of Confucius. Confucius is considered the first Chinese thinker to take a systematic, philosophical approach to the social, political and...
Blood and Gold- The Making of Spain
Conquest - Ep1
- Broadcast
- 2015 (58 mins)
This rich, dense and thrilling three part series, presented by Simon Sebag Montefiore takes the viewer through more than two thousand years of Spain’s history. This episode spans the early years when...
Blood and Gold- The Making of Spain
Reconquest - Ep2
- Broadcast
- 2015 (59 mins)
Christianity in the North re-awakens, and one by one the Moslem states fall. Attempts are made by pious Islamic sects from North Africa to win back Spain. By the mid 15th century only the city-state of...
Blood and Gold- The Making of Spain
Nation - Ep3
- Broadcast
- 2015 (59 mins)
Spain enters its Golden Age. King Philip II is a colossus on the European Stage, and for a time is King of England as well as Spain with his brief marriage to Queen Mary. With the power of Spain enhanced by...
Colour: The Spectrum of Science
The Colours of the Earth -Ep1
- Broadcast
- 2015 (59 mins)
We live in a world ablaze with colour. Rainbows and rainforests, oceans and humanity, earth is the most colourful place we know of. But the colours we see are far more complex and fascinating than they...