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Andrew Marr’s History of the World
Episode 2 - Age of Empire
- Broadcast
- 2012 (58 mins)
Andrew Marr tells the story of the first empires which laid the foundations for the modern world. From the Assyrian’s brutal King Sennacherib to the vast empire of Alexander the Great, conquerors rampaged...
Andrew Marr’s History of the World
Episode 3 - The Word and the Sword
- Broadcast
- 2012 (58 mins)
Andrew Marr plunges into the spiritual revolutions that shook the world between 300 BC and 700 AD. Through visiting Ashoka’s Vishali edict he sees how the bloody prince Ashoka of the Mauryan Empire...
Andrew Marr’s History of the World
Episode 4 - Into the Light
- Broadcast
- 2012 (59 mins)
Andrew Marr reaches the Middle Ages revealing how the Vikings explored and pillaged from Northern Europe to North America. The Vikings laid the foundations of powerful new trading states - including Russia....
Andrew Marr’s History of the World
Episode 5 - Age of Plunder
- Broadcast
- 2012 (57 mins)
Andrew Marr reveals the explosion of global capitalism that began with Christopher Columbus stumbling across America while searching for China. The search for Gold and spread of Christianity caused Europeans...
Andrew Marr’s History of the World
Episode 6 - Revolution
- Broadcast
- 2012 (58 mins)
In the 17th and 18th centuries, people across the world rose up in the name of freedom and equality against the power of the church and monarchy. Andrew Marr investigates the effects of the Enlightenment as...
Andrew Marr’s History of the World
Episode 7 - Age of Industry
- Broadcast
- 2012 (58 mins)
Andrew Marr tells how Britain’s Industrial Revolution created the modern world with inventors such as James Watt and George Stevenson improving the steam engines and railways. Trade with China was opened...
Andrew Marr’s History of the World
Episode 8 - Age of Extremes
- Broadcast
- 2012 (59 mins)
Andrew Marr brings the story right up to date with the twentieth century - our age. Starting at Munich’s beer halls, Marr reveals how Hitler’s first revolt at the Munich Putsch resulted in his...
Great Thinkers: In Their Own Words
Human, All Too Human
- Broadcast
- 2011 (59 mins)
The 20th century was a time of unprecedented change and conflict. Violence and war spread across Europe and the World. And as new technology trumped old it became possible to harm others on a previously...
Great Thinkers: In Their Own Words
The Grand Experiment
- Broadcast
- 2011 (59 mins)
The question of how to run a good society has puzzled intellectuals for centuries. Should we allow governments to secure a better country, or place our trust in the individual? In the twentieth century,...
Great Thinkers: In Their Own Words
The Culture Wars
- Broadcast
- 2011 (59 mins)
Culture used to be so easy to define - it was ballet, opera, Shakespeare, Beethoven... But in the twentieth century, these easy assumptions were torn apart by intellectuals that turned culture into a...