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Pompeii: The New Dig
Episode Four - House Of Treasures
- Broadcast
- 2025 (59 mins)
A new one-hour episode of Pompeii: The New Dig reveals the latest findings as the biggest archaeological dig in Pompeii for a generation reaches its climax. Told through the drama of the dig and stylised...
Rethink
Ep2 - Museums
- Broadcast
- 2025 (28 mins)
The UK has many world-leading museums that inspire wonder and fascination in their visitors. Many were originally created to display artefacts from empire or house the collections of their wealthy Victorian...
Human Intelligence
Collectors: Sei Shōnagon
- Broadcast
- 2025 (14 mins)
Naomi Alderman wonders at lady-in-waiting, writer and all-round entertainer Sei Shōnagon, who wrote The Pillow Book over a thousand years ago in the Japanese imperial court. The Empress and her entourage...
Human Intelligence
Collectors: Denis Diderot
- Broadcast
- 2025 (14 mins)
Naomi Alderman looks at the remarkable way Denis Diderot connected ideas and people. In 18th-century Paris, he edited one of the very first encyclopaedias: twenty-eight volumes with tens of thousands of...
Human Intelligence
Collectors: Pamphila
- Broadcast
- 2025 (13 mins)
Naomi Alderman examines the intelligence and sharp humour of an ancient Greek historian known as Pamphila of Epidaurus. She was a female historian working in a society that believed women were...
Human Intelligence
Collectors: Samuel Johnson
- Broadcast
- 2025 (14 mins)
Samuel Johnson was living proof that a person can be extremely messy and disorganised but still do work of great worth. He compiled and almost single-handedly wrote an English dictionary that changed the...
Human Intelligence
Collectors: Charles Darwin
- Broadcast
- 2025 (13 mins)
Darwin asked big questions. His theory of evolution transformed our understanding of life on Earth. But Naomi Alderman discovers that he did it by looking at small things and tiny changes that other people...
Human Intelligence
Manhattan Project: J Robert Oppenheimer
- Broadcast
- 2025 (13 mins)
Naomi Alderman explores the multifaceted mind of J Robert Oppenheimer, scientific lead on the Manhattan Project, a vast, top secret scheme to build the world’s first atomic bombs in World War II. The...
Human Intelligence
Manhattan Project: Niels Bohr
- Broadcast
- 2025 (13 mins)
Niels Bohr said, ‘Anyone who is not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it.' Naomi Alderman investigates the remarkable insights of a scientific genius. Bohr...
Human Intelligence
Manhattan Project: John von Neumann
- Broadcast
- 2025 (14 mins)
Naomi Alderman dives into the amazing intellect of John von Neumann, physicist, mathematician, economist, computer scientist - a visionary who predicted the rise of artificial intelligence decades ahead of...