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  • The Fifteen Billion Pound Railway - Series 3

    Episode 1

    Broadcast
    2019 (58 mins)

    With exclusive access, this returning series follows the construction workers of Crossrail as they battle to finish the final stages of the new Elizabeth Line underground railway beneath the streets of...

  • The Fifteen Billion Pound Railway - Series 4

    Episode 2

    Broadcast
    2019 (59 mins)

    With exclusive access, this returning series follows the construction workers of Crossrail as they battle to finish the final stages of the new Elizabeth Line underground railway beneath the streets of...

  • Civilisations

    Episode 1 - Second Moment of Creation

    Broadcast
    2018 (59 mins)

    The first film by Simon Schama in Civilisations looks at the formative role art and the creative imagination have played in the forging of humanity itself. The film opens with Simon’s passionate...

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    Episode 2 - How Do We Look?

    Broadcast
    2018 (58 mins)

    In this episode of Civilisations Professor Mary Beard explores images of the human body in ancient art, from Mexico and Greece to Egypt and China. Mary seeks answers to fundamental questions at the heart of...

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    Episode 3 - Picturing Paradise

    Broadcast
    2018 (59 mins)

    Simon Schama explores one of our deepest artistic urges: the depiction of nature. Simon discovers that landscape painting is seldom a straightforward description of observed nature; rather it’s a...

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    Episode 4 - The Eye of Faith

    Broadcast
    2018 (59 mins)

    In this film Professor Mary Beard broaches the controversial, sometimes dangerous, topic of religion and art. For millennia, art has inspired religion as much as religion has inspired art. Yet there are...

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    Episode 5 - Triumph of Art

    Broadcast
    2018 (59 mins)

    Think Renaissance and you think Italy. But in the 15th and 16th centuries the great Islamic empires experienced their own extraordinary cultural flowering. The two phenomena did not unfold in separate...

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    Episode 6 - First Contact

    Broadcast
    2018 (59 mins)

    In the 15th and 16th centuries distant and disparate cultures met, often for the first time. These encounters provoked wonder, awe, bafflement and fear. And, as historian of empire David Olusoga shows, art...

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    Episode 7 - Radiance

    Broadcast
    2018 (59 mins)

    Simon Schama starts his meditation on colour and civilisation with the great Gothic cathedrals of Amiens and Chartres. He then moves to 16th century Venice where masterpieces such as Giovanni Bellini’s San...

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    Episode 8 - The Cult of Progress

    Broadcast
    2018 (59 mins)

    If David Olusoga’s first film in Civilisations is about the art that followed and reflected early encounters between different cultures, his second explores the artistic reaction to imperialism in the 19th...

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