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Mark Steel Lectures Series One
Isaac Newton
- Broadcast
- 2003 (29 mins)
He was a scientist who thought he could turn lead into gold. He was an obsessive with a secret Swiss boyfriend. And, in the world of the Mark Steel Lectures, he likes Alphabetti Spaghetti and the...
Mark Steel Lectures Series One
Lord Byron
- Broadcast
- 2003 (29 mins)
Mark Steel follows the glorious life of Lord Byron from his birth just off Oxford Street in London to his death in Greece thirty-six years later. We see Byron on the beach, Byron and his pet bear and Byron...
Mark Steel Lectures Series One
Karl Marx
- Broadcast
- 2003 (29 mins)
Karl Marx biography
Civil War
The Breakdown
- Broadcast
- 2002 (28 mins)
Dr Tristram HUNT pres 1/4 pt new historical doc series re English-Civil War of 1640s & fraught relations betw England, Scotland & Ireland. The arrogant religious policies of Charles 1 divide England &...
Civil War
Taking Sides
- Broadcast
- 2002 (29 mins)
Series on the English Civil War of the 1640s w Dr Tristram HUNT. How events across the Irish sea accelerated war in England as the relationship between Parliament & king collapsed, dividing the country into...
Civil War
Total War
- Broadcast
- 2002 (29 mins)
History prog. CROMWELL’s victory at Marston Moor secured his rise to power, while, in Scotland, the so-called ‘English-Civil-War’ degenerated into a brutal clan feud between the MacDonalds & Campbells.
Civil War
The Endgame
- Broadcast
- 2002 (29 mins)
While the King is held to ransom by Parliament,CROMWELL’s New Model Army is in Putney debating radical proposls. Charles escapes & reignites war w help of the Scots. A second civil war erupts in England,...
The Trouble With Love
Adoring Women
- Broadcast
- 2002 (29 mins)
The programme’s presenter Amanda VIckery uses the (He of Eleanor of Aquitalne and her family to explore the poetry and songs of Southern France in the 12th Century. The poets at that time (known as...
The Trouble With Love
Prudence versus Passion
- Broadcast
- 2002 (29 mins)
2/6 part series pres by historian Amanda VICKERY who traces the history of love. She looks at 17th century marriage dictated by rank, power & wealth; & story of Anne MURRAY who fell in love with a courtier...
The Trouble With Love
Wild at Heart
- Broadcast
- 2002 (29 mins)
This programme uses the life and loves of Percy Bysshe Shelley to explore the legacy of the Romantics on the history of romantic love. Using original love letters and documents Amanda Vickery finds that the...
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