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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...
Andrew Marr’s History of the World
Episode 8 - Age of Extremes
- Broadcast
- 2012 (59 mins)
Andrew Marr brings the story right up to date with the twentieth century - our age. Starting at Munich’s beer halls, Marr reveals how Hitler’s first revolt at the Munich Putsch resulted in his...
Growing Children
Autism
- Broadcast
- 2011 (59 mins)
Autism is a complicated and often misunderstood condition. In this film child psychologist Laverne Antrobus goes on a quest to discover the different way that the brain works in children with autism and to...
Growing Children
OCD
- Broadcast
- 2011 (59 mins)
In this fascinating film Laverne Antrobus explores the complicated and often misunderstood condition of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Laverne reveals what is actually happening in the brains of children...
Growing Children
Dyslexia
- Broadcast
- 2011 (59 mins)
In this programme Laverne looks into one of the most common problems for children - dyslexia. She uncovers some incredible developments in neuroscience that are showing how the dyslexic brain works. As many...
Seven Ages of Britain
Age of Revolution
- Broadcast
- 2010 (59 mins)
4/7 of documentary in which Sir David Dimbleby looks at Britain’s history through its art and architecture. During the 17th century the people of Britain learned to question everything - the result was the...
Seven Ages of Britain
Age of Ambition
- Broadcast
- 2010 (59 mins)
In the last episode of Seven Ages of Britain, David Dimbleby looks at how the 20th century saw ordinary Britons upturning ancient power structures and class hierarchies. The catalyst was the First World War,...