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Landscape Mysteries
The Tower People of Shetland
- Broadcast
- 2003 (29 mins)
Professor Aubrey Manning seeks to solve some of the enduring mysteries of the British landscape through clues in geology, archaeology and natural history. On the remote Shetland Isles, a series of monumental...
Landscape Mysteries
The Abandoned Marsh
- Broadcast
- 2003 (29 mins)
Professor Aubrey Manning traces the history of Romney Marsh in Kent, reclaimed from the sea in the 12th Century and now a landscape of abandoned buildings and tales of towns lost at sea. What happened to its...
Landscape Mysteries
The Riddle of the Yorkshire Tracks
- Broadcast
- 2003 (29 mins)
Professor Aubrey Manning seeks to solve some of the enduring mysteries of the British landscape through clues in geology, archaeology and natural history. Strange parallel tracks in the rocks on the North...
Landscape Mysteries
The Terraces of Avalon
- Broadcast
- 2003 (29 mins)
One of the mysteries surrounding Glastonbury has been the origin of a series of stepped terraces on the Tor. They may have been part of a Neolithic maze, or possibly fortifications built by King Arthur on...
What the Industrial Revolution Did For Us
Material World
- Broadcast
- 2003 (29 mins)
Dan traces the origins of Industrial Revolution back to the unlikeliest of places: the tea tables tables of Georgian Britain, where an appetite for the good life helped to create our modern, material world....
What the Industrial Revolution Did For Us
Working Wonders
- Broadcast
- 2003 (29 mins)
Whether we think it’s a good thing or not, our experiences of working life in the 21st century - crowded cities, machine-driven factories, the office 9 to 5, the crush of the rush-hour - have their roots...
What the Industrial Revolution Did For Us
On the Move
- Broadcast
- 2003 (29 mins)
In a new six part series, Dan Cruickshank explores one of the most inventive and surprising periods in history. In 1750 transport was as basic as it had been during the time of the Romans; less than 100...
What the Industrial Revolution Did For Us
Modern Medicine
- Broadcast
- 2003 (29 mins)
Series of 6 x 30 min programmes, presented by Dan Cruickshank. As the Industrial Revolution began, medical practice was in the dark ages. Disease was rife and the average life expectancy was 36 years. Dan...
What the Industrial Revolution Did For Us
War Machine
- Broadcast
- 2003 (29 mins)
Series of 6 x 30 min programmes presented by Dan Cruickshank. Dan Cruickshank discovers how the Industrial Revolution created modern warfare, as well as some of our most important inventions - from the...
What the Industrial Revolution Did For Us
City Living
- Broadcast
- 2003 (29 mins)
Prior to the Industrial Revolution, the day-to-day lives of ordinary Britons had remained unchanged for centuries. Homes were largely rural and functional, and the idea of decorative and comfortable...