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The Music Of Time
Chile
- Broadcast
- 2017 (49 mins)
Wyre Davies explores what happened when the Chilean Nueva Canci-n movement collided with General Pinochet’s brutal regime. In the late fifties a style of popular folk music was born which evoked Chile’s...
The Music Of Time
After The Ottomans
- Broadcast
- 2017 (50 mins)
How the music of the dying Ottoman Empire was reborn and reinvented in the United States. Between 1895 and 1923, as the empire was unraveling, several hundred thousand Greeks, Armenians, Arabs, Jews and...
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...
The Secret Life of Children’s Books
Water Babies - Ep2
- Broadcast
- 2016 (29 mins)
Written in 1862 by the Reverend Charles Kingsley, The Water Babies tells the story of a young chimney sweep called Tom who finds redemption amongst the pulsing life of the open ocean when he is transformed...
Full Steam Ahead
Full Steam Ahead - Ep1
- Broadcast
- 2016 (59 mins)
It’s Full Steam Ahead for historians Ruth Goodman, Alex Langlands and Peter Ginn as they bring back to life the golden age of steam and explore how the Victorian railways created modern Britain. The...