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Exploring India with Bettany Hughes
The South
- Broadcast
- 2023 (50 mins)
India is home to cultures, traditions and sites as old as the ancient Egyptians, Mesopotamians and Chinese dynasties. This vast country with a population of 1.32 billion people has one of the fastest growing...
Union With David Olusoga
Episode 1 - The Making of Britain
- Broadcast
- 2023 (60 mins)
Historian David Olusoga starts the story of Union in the 17th Century, an era of defined by deep religious divisions between Protestant and Catholic. In 1603 King James VI of Scotland became King James I of...
Union With David Olusoga
Episode 2 - Creating Britishness
- Broadcast
- 2023 (59 mins)
In the second episode in the series, historian David Olusoga reveals how in the Eighteenth Century a new British identity was forged in the face of multiple threats and almost constant war with France. After...
Union With David Olusoga
Episode 3 - The Two Nations
- Broadcast
- 2023 (59 mins)
In the Nineteenth Century the union of Great Britain and Ireland appeared to be secure and powerful. Yet beneath the surface were deep divisions between rich and poor, and social class began to define...
Union With David Olusoga
Episode 4 - Union and Disunion
- Broadcast
- 2023 (60 mins)
On the 13th July 1911 the investiture of the Prince of Wales, heir to the throne, was held at Caernarfon Castle. David explores how this centuries old ceremony - by some seen as a symbol of Welsh subjugation...
Art That Made Us
Episode 1 ' Lights in the Darkness
- Broadcast
- 2022 (59 mins)
This episode immerses us in the turbulent era that followed the Roman occupation of Britain. Once known as the ‘dark’ ages, in reality it’s a time of glittering art and extraordinary cultural fusions....
Art That Made Us
Episode 2 ' Revolution of the Dead
- Broadcast
- 2022 (59 mins)
An alternative history of the Black Death of the Middle Ages and its bitter but profoundly creative aftermath. Contemporary artists and performers, alongside historians and curators, reveal how a century...
Art That Made Us
Episode 3 ' Queens, Feuds and Faith
- Broadcast
- 2022 (59 mins)
In the 16th century, the British Isles experienced a religious revolution, as the kingdoms of England and then Scotland turned Protestant. Artists and experts today reveal how, during the reign of Elizabeth...
Art That Made Us
Episode 4 ' To Kill A King
- Broadcast
- 2022 (59 mins)
Architect Amanda Levete climbs the Tulip Stairs in the Queen’s House, Greenwich, and reassesses Inigo Jones’ elegant and innovative design, while portrait artist Tai Shan Schierenberg encounters Van...
Art That Made Us
Episode 5 ' Consumers and Conscience
- Broadcast
- 2022 (59 mins)
This episode traces the story of Britain during the 18th century, a period that saw an explosion of creativity and a country with enough money, from trade and conquest, to pay for it. But the money had a...