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The Brits Who Built the Modern World
Ep3 - The Politics of Power
- Broadcast
- 2014 (59 mins)
The story of how an exceptional generation of British architects, led by Norman Foster and Richard Rogers, conquered the globe with their high tech vision. This third episode focuses on the period from the...
The Secret History of Our Streets ' Series Two
Episode 3 ' The Fittie Squares, Aberdeen
- Broadcast
- 2014 (59 mins)
At the mouth of Aberdeen Harbour lie the Fittie Squares, a model housing scheme built for fishermen and their families in 1809. Tethered to the sea and cut off from the city the squares developed their own...
The Secret History of Our Streets ' Series Two
Episode 1 ' The Moray Estate, Edinburgh
- Broadcast
- 2014 (58 mins)
In Edinburgh’s ancient New Town ' a street unlike anywhere else in Britain, with an architecture and a people seemingly unchanged over almost 200 years. The last bastion of the British Empire. A group of...
The Secret History of Our Streets ' Series Two
Episode 2 ' Duke Street, Glasgow
- Broadcast
- 2014 (58 mins)
Duke Street is Britain’s longest street, running through the heart of Glasgow’s East End. Elegant Victorian tenement blocks line the road to the South. Yet if the City’s planners had had their way,...
Ancient Greece: The Greatest Show on Earth
Episode 1 - Democrats
- Broadcast
- 2013 (59 mins)
In Episode 1 of ‘Ancient Greece: The Greatest Show on Earth’ classicist, Dr Michael Scott journeys to Athens to explore how drama first began. He discovers that from the very start it was about more than...
Ancient Greece: The Greatest Show on Earth
Episode 2 - Kings
- Broadcast
- 2013 (59 mins)
In Episode 2 of ‘Ancient Greece: The Greatest Show on Earth’ classicist, Dr Michael Scott looks at the dramatic decline of Athens and the remarkable triumph and transformation of theatre. During the...
Ancient Greece: The Greatest Show on Earth
Episode 3 - Romans
- Broadcast
- 2013 (59 mins)
In Episode 3 of ‘Ancient Greece: The Greatest Show on Earth’ classicist, Dr Michael Scott examines the vital role played by the Romans in the preservation of Greek drama and in the history of theatre. He...
The Secret History of Our Streets ' Series One
Episode 6 ' Reverdy Road
- Broadcast
- 2012 (59 mins)
Charles Booth’s vast 1886 Survey of London ranks each one of London streets according to the class of their residents. Now in a major series for BBC Two, The Secret History of Our Streets returns to six...
The Secret History of Our Streets ' Series One
Episode 1 ' Deptford High Street
- Broadcast
- 2012 (59 mins)
In 1886 Charles Booth embarked on an ambitious plan to visit every one of London’s streets to record the social conditions of residents. His project took him 17 years. Once he had finished he had...
The Secret History of Our Streets ' Series One
Episode 4 ' Portland Road
- Broadcast
- 2012 (59 mins)
The fourth episode features Portland Road, Notting Hill, the archetypal London banker street, with six’million pound homes for hedge fund managers. But when Booth visited in 1899 it was the worse slum in...