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  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Built in Britain

    Episode One

    Broadcast
    2012 (59 mins)

    Evan Davis loves infrastructure - the epic engineering networks which make Britain tick. In the first of a new two-part series, he visits amazing projects which are transforming the nation, like a vast...

  • Built in Britain

    Episode Two

    Broadcast
    2012 (58 mins)

    Evan Davis asks whether Britain has rediscovered its talent for epic engineering. In the second part of his new series, he visits recent success stories, such as the Olympic Park and our first high speed...

  • The Secret Life Of Buildings

    Home

    Broadcast
    2011 (48 mins)

    Our most intimate spaces are our most neglected. Why don’t UK architects engage with the homes most of us live in? What does that say about our attitude to the most important space in our life? And what is...