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The Secret History of Our Streets ' Series One
Episode 2 ' Camberwell Grove
- Broadcast
- 2012 (59 mins)
The second episode features Camberwell Grove. Today ‘The Grove’is an elegant oddity a broad, leafy street of fine Georgian houses set in the seething inner city. Through its long history ‘The Grove’...
The Secret History of Our Streets ' Series One
Episode 5 ' Arnold Circus
- 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 3 ' Caledonian Road
- Broadcast
- 2012 (59 mins)
The third episode features Caledonian Road, which starts next to Kings Cross station and heads north for over a mile. From its beginning, the street has been resolutely working class and when Charles Booth...
Andrew Marr’s History of the World
Episode 1 - Survival
- Broadcast
- 2012 (59 mins)
Starting with our origins in Africa 70,000 years ago, Marr traces the story of our nomadic ancestors as they spread out around the world and settled down to become the first farmers and townspeople. Marr...
Andrew Marr’s History of the World
Episode 2 - Age of Empire
- Broadcast
- 2012 (58 mins)
Andrew Marr tells the story of the first empires which laid the foundations for the modern world. From the Assyrian’s brutal King Sennacherib to the vast empire of Alexander the Great, conquerors rampaged...
Andrew Marr’s History of the World
Episode 3 - The Word and the Sword
- Broadcast
- 2012 (58 mins)
Andrew Marr plunges into the spiritual revolutions that shook the world between 300 BC and 700 AD. Through visiting Ashoka’s Vishali edict he sees how the bloody prince Ashoka of the Mauryan Empire...
Andrew Marr’s History of the World
Episode 4 - Into the Light
- Broadcast
- 2012 (59 mins)
Andrew Marr reaches the Middle Ages revealing how the Vikings explored and pillaged from Northern Europe to North America. The Vikings laid the foundations of powerful new trading states - including Russia....
Andrew Marr’s History of the World
Episode 5 - Age of Plunder
- Broadcast
- 2012 (57 mins)
Andrew Marr reveals the explosion of global capitalism that began with Christopher Columbus stumbling across America while searching for China. The search for Gold and spread of Christianity caused Europeans...
Andrew Marr’s History of the World
Episode 6 - Revolution
- Broadcast
- 2012 (58 mins)
In the 17th and 18th centuries, people across the world rose up in the name of freedom and equality against the power of the church and monarchy. Andrew Marr investigates the effects of the Enlightenment as...
Andrew Marr’s History of the World
Episode 7 - Age of Industry
- Broadcast
- 2012 (58 mins)
Andrew Marr tells how Britain’s Industrial Revolution created the modern world with inventors such as James Watt and George Stevenson improving the steam engines and railways. Trade with China was opened...