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Mark Steel Lectures Series Two
Sylvia Pankhurst
- Broadcast
- 2004 (29 mins)
Sylvia Pankhurst Tracing her life from schooldays in radical Manchester to retirement in rural Essex, when Haile Selassie occasionally came to call, Sylvia Pankhurst the revolutionary and Rastafarian...
Mark Steel Lectures Series Two
Albert Einstein
- Broadcast
- 2004 (29 mins)
Albert Einstein A great physicist but a lousy father, Einstein played with the nature of space and time as easily as he did his beloved violin. Mark Steel grapples with the fundamental nature of the Universe...
British Isles: A User’s Guide to Natural History
Episode 5 - Revolution
- Broadcast
- 2004 (58 mins)
In this programme we examine how the advent of the Industrial Revolution radically changed the British landscape.
Flooded Britain
Flooded Britain
- Broadcast
- 2003 (49 mins)
This programme looks at the defences put into place after the 1953 flood in Essex and the recent project to demolish part of the sea walls so the sea can expand onto the salt marshes....
Deco: The Art of Glamour
Deco: The Art of Glamour
- Broadcast
- 2003 (48 mins)
Docu re Art Deco, style which influenced 1920s & 1930s architecture and design internationally, featured in Victoria & Albert museum exhibition. India France Paris New York
World in a Box
World in a Box
- Broadcast
- 2003 (59 mins)
This summer the British Museum, the first free public museum in the world celebrates its 250th anniversary. To mark the occasion historian Lisa Jardine goes in search of the origins of public museums by...
Landscape Mysteries
In Search of Irish Gold
- Broadcast
- 2003 (29 mins)
Undertaking the first of eight quests across the British Isles, Professor Aubrey Manning seeks clues to uncover a lost Irish Eldorado. Spectacular hoards of gold objects show Bronze Age people in Ireland had...
Landscape Mysteries
Figures in the Chalk
- Broadcast
- 2003 (29 mins)
The enormous chalk figures which are scattered through much of the landscape of southern England represent a puzzle. While the origins of some are well known, others are shrouded in mystery. In an attempt to...
Landscape Mysteries
Britain Before the Ice
- Broadcast
- 2003 (29 mins)
Following the successful BBC2 series "Talking Landscapes", Professor Aubrey Manning embarks on a new set of journeys in which he follows clues in the geology, natural history, and archaeology of different...
Landscape Mysteries
Secrets of the Flood
- Broadcast
- 2003 (29 mins)
Professor Aubrey Manning collects evidence of a flooded landscape beneath the Solent and of raised rock arches in Scotland, cut by coastal erosion, but now high above the sea. The explanation is the land...