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Landscape Mysteries
The Terraces of Avalon
- Broadcast
- 2003 (29 mins)
One of the mysteries surrounding Glastonbury has been the origin of a series of stepped terraces on the Tor. They may have been part of a Neolithic maze, or possibly fortifications built by King Arthur on...
What the Industrial Revolution Did For Us
Material World
- Broadcast
- 2003 (29 mins)
Dan traces the origins of Industrial Revolution back to the unlikeliest of places: the tea tables tables of Georgian Britain, where an appetite for the good life helped to create our modern, material world....
What the Industrial Revolution Did For Us
Working Wonders
- Broadcast
- 2003 (29 mins)
Whether we think it’s a good thing or not, our experiences of working life in the 21st century - crowded cities, machine-driven factories, the office 9 to 5, the crush of the rush-hour - have their roots...
What the Industrial Revolution Did For Us
On the Move
- Broadcast
- 2003 (29 mins)
In a new six part series, Dan Cruickshank explores one of the most inventive and surprising periods in history. In 1750 transport was as basic as it had been during the time of the Romans; less than 100...
What the Industrial Revolution Did For Us
Modern Medicine
- Broadcast
- 2003 (29 mins)
Series of 6 x 30 min programmes, presented by Dan Cruickshank. As the Industrial Revolution began, medical practice was in the dark ages. Disease was rife and the average life expectancy was 36 years. Dan...
What the Industrial Revolution Did For Us
War Machine
- Broadcast
- 2003 (29 mins)
Series of 6 x 30 min programmes presented by Dan Cruickshank. Dan Cruickshank discovers how the Industrial Revolution created modern warfare, as well as some of our most important inventions - from the...
What the Industrial Revolution Did For Us
City Living
- Broadcast
- 2003 (29 mins)
Prior to the Industrial Revolution, the day-to-day lives of ordinary Britons had remained unchanged for centuries. Homes were largely rural and functional, and the idea of decorative and comfortable...
Mark Steel Lectures Series One
Charles Darwin
- Broadcast
- 2003 (29 mins)
Delving further, and more imaginatively, into the evolution of Charles Darwin than ever before, the Mark Steel Lecture takes this modern hero off the ten pound note and into the present day. We follow him...
Mark Steel Lectures Series One
Aristotle
- Broadcast
- 2003 (29 mins)
Mark Steel traces the history of Greek Philosophy from Pythagoras ("never ate beans") to Plato ("old and bald") to Aristotle ("made lists of Olympic champions for fun, and possibly a bugger for the bottle,...
Mark Steel Lectures Series One
Sigmund Freud
- Broadcast
- 2003 (29 mins)
A life measured out in cigar-cutters and cocaine wraps, Sigmund Freud was clearly a genius. Here was a man who looked around the word at the start of the twentieth century, saw brutal Empires, millions being...
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