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Divine Women
Episode 2 - Handmaids of the Gods
- Broadcast
- 2012 (58 mins)
Award winning historian Bettany Hughes continues her journey into the hidden and controversial history of women’s place in religion. This week she uncovers the lost era of the priestess. She delves into...
Divine Women
Episode 3 - The War of the Word
- Broadcast
- 2012 (59 mins)
Award winning historian Bettany Hughes discovers how the period known as the Dark Ages was in fact a golden age for a few remarkable women. She finds that education and the written word became vital tools...
China on Four Wheels
Episode 1
- Broadcast
- 2012 (58 mins)
Anita Rani and Justin Rowlatt embark on two epic car journeys across China, navigating congested cities and winding mountain roads to explore how the country’s economic growth, symbolised by its booming...
China on Four Wheels
Episode 2
- Broadcast
- 2012 (59 mins)
Anita Rani and Justin Rowlatt continue their epic car journeys across China, heading for their final destination, the financial mega-city of Shanghai. Along the way they navigate congested cities and winding...
Justice: A Citizen’s Guide to the 21st Century
Episode 1
- Broadcast
- 2011 (59 mins)
A specially commissioned documentary in which Michael Sandel, the world renowned Harvard professor, looks at the philosophy of justice. Is it acceptable to torture a terrorist in order to discover where a...
Great Thinkers: In Their Own Words
Human, All Too Human
- Broadcast
- 2011 (59 mins)
The 20th century was a time of unprecedented change and conflict. Violence and war spread across Europe and the World. And as new technology trumped old it became possible to harm others on a previously...
Great Thinkers: In Their Own Words
The Grand Experiment
- Broadcast
- 2011 (59 mins)
The question of how to run a good society has puzzled intellectuals for centuries. Should we allow governments to secure a better country, or place our trust in the individual? In the twentieth century,...
Great Thinkers: In Their Own Words
The Culture Wars
- Broadcast
- 2011 (59 mins)
Culture used to be so easy to define - it was ballet, opera, Shakespeare, Beethoven... But in the twentieth century, these easy assumptions were torn apart by intellectuals that turned culture into a...
Seven Ages of Britain
Age of Empire
- Broadcast
- 2010 (59 mins)
The story of the British Empire from 1750 to 1900 revealed through its art and treasures. Dimbleby travels through Britain, America and India tracing the descent from adventure and inspiration into moral...
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,...
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