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The Secret History of Our Streets ' Series One
Episode 4 ' Portland Road
- Broadcast
- 2012 (59 mins)
The fourth episode features Portland Road, Notting Hill, the archetypal London banker street, with six’million pound homes for hedge fund managers. But when Booth visited in 1899 it was the worse slum in...
The Secret History of Our Streets ' Series One
Episode 2 ' Camberwell Grove
- Broadcast
- 2012 (59 mins)
The second episode features Camberwell Grove. Today ‘The Grove’is an elegant oddity a broad, leafy street of fine Georgian houses set in the seething inner city. Through its long history ‘The Grove’...
The Secret History of Our Streets ' Series One
Episode 5 ' Arnold Circus
- Broadcast
- 2012 (59 mins)
Charles Booth’s vast 1886 Survey of London ranks each one of London streets according to the class of their residents. Now in a major series for BBC Two, The Secret History of Our Streets returns to six...
The Secret History of Our Streets ' Series One
Episode 3 ' Caledonian Road
- Broadcast
- 2012 (59 mins)
The third episode features Caledonian Road, which starts next to Kings Cross station and heads north for over a mile. From its beginning, the street has been resolutely working class and when Charles Booth...
Masters of Money
Marx
- Broadcast
- 2012 (59 mins)
As the global financial crisis continues on its destructive path, one extraordinary idea is again being taken seriously: could Karl Marx be right? In Masters of Money produced in partnership with The Open...
Masters of Money
Hayek
- Broadcast
- 2012 (59 mins)
According to conventional wisdom, today’s global financial crisis happened because markets were not regulated enough. But what if the opposite is true? That it was excessive government meddling in the...
Masters of Money
Keynes
- Broadcast
- 2012 (59 mins)
Many argue only Winston Churchill had a greater impact on British life than John Maynard Keynes over the last century. In Masters of Money produced in partnership with The Open University, BBC Economics...
China on Four Wheels
Episode 1
- Broadcast
- 2012 (58 mins)
Anita Rani and Justin Rowlatt embark on two epic car journeys across China, navigating congested cities and winding mountain roads to explore how the country’s economic growth, symbolised by its booming...
China on Four Wheels
Episode 2
- Broadcast
- 2012 (59 mins)
Anita Rani and Justin Rowlatt continue their epic car journeys across China, heading for their final destination, the financial mega-city of Shanghai. Along the way they navigate congested cities and winding...
Andrew Marr’s History of the World
Episode 1 - Survival
- Broadcast
- 2012 (59 mins)
Starting with our origins in Africa 70,000 years ago, Marr traces the story of our nomadic ancestors as they spread out around the world and settled down to become the first farmers and townspeople. Marr...