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The Slavery Business
The Rise and Fall of the House of Beckford
- Broadcast
- 2005 (59 mins)
Docu-drama which focuses on the Beckford family who were transformed from a middle class family to a C18 dynasty running Britain’s first global business- slavery. They owned many sugar plantations in Jamaica.
Open University Lecture
Hitler’s Place in History: The Discussion
- Broadcast
- 2005 (29 mins)
Studio debate chaired by Laurence REES with a panel of leading historians of Hitler and the Third Reich, incl Prof Ian KERSHAW. Did the Second World War happen because of Adolf Hitler or because of the times...
The Slavery Business
Breaking the Chains
- Broadcast
- 2005 (60 mins)
Docu-drama. The story of the real heroes of the battle against slavery is uncovered after been hidden for 200yrs - radical political activists, many of whom were women & thousands of slaves who rose up in...
What the Ancients Did For Us
The Egyptians
- Broadcast
- 2005 (59 mins)
Adam HART-DAVIES presents history documentary series examining inventions from ancient times. Reporter Amani ZAIN helps expolore Egyptian inventions incl boats, pyramid & mummification
What the Ancients Did For Us
The Romans
- Broadcast
- 2005 (59 mins)
On location in Rome Amani ZAIN tells us the stories behind the Colosseum, the Pantheon and the Circus Maximus during the golden age of this great empire. From ballistas to bath houses from the military to...
What the Ancients Did For Us
The Greeks
- Broadcast
- 2005 (59 mins)
Adam HART-DAVIS builds & test ancient computers & catapults. Hermione COCKBURN explores the Aegean, chronicling the history of the Ancient Greeks. Acropolis computers catapults ray guns planetary science
Mark Steel Lectures Series Two
Ludwig Van Beethoven
- Broadcast
- 2004 (29 mins)
Ludwig Van Beethoven Mark Steel turns up the volume on Beethoven with his tribute to a man who was the nearest eighteenth-century Vienna got to not only Jimi Hendrix, but also Captain Sensible. Unflinchingly...
Mark Steel Lectures Series One
Leonardo Da Vinci
- Broadcast
- 2004 (29 mins)
Leonardo Da Vinci Creator of some of the greatest works of art in human history, but at the same time barely able to finish them, Leonardo is possibly the most easily distracted genius who ever lived. Mark...
Mark Steel Lectures Series Two
Mary Shelley
- Broadcast
- 2004 (29 mins)
Mary Shelley Like Dr Frankenstein himself, Mark Steel has taken the cold-cuts of the traditional TV lecture and brought it back to life with passion and electricity. Taking as its subjects both the book for...
Mark Steel Lectures Series Two
Thomas Paine
- Broadcast
- 2004 (29 mins)
Thomas Paine Surely Britain’s greatest unknown international revolutionary best-selling author and hobbyist bridge builder, Norfolk born corset-maker’s son Thomas Paine wrote the Rights of Man and helped...