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Union With David Olusoga
Episode 2 - Creating Britishness
- Broadcast
- 2023 (59 mins)
In the second episode in the series, historian David Olusoga reveals how in the Eighteenth Century a new British identity was forged in the face of multiple threats and almost constant war with France. After...
Civilisations
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...
Extraordinary Rituals
Episode 3 - Changing World
- Broadcast
- 2018 (59 mins)
This episode explores how rituals adapt in our changing world. How do ancient ceremonies stay relevant and when do we invent new rituals to answer our needs? In India, Bhumi is a 24 year-old business...
Extraordinary Rituals
Episode 2 - Great Gatherings
- Broadcast
- 2018 (58 mins)
Great Gatherings looks at rituals that bring us together in huge numbers, keep communities alive and reinforce our identity - by joining the crowd. In Italy, Siena is a medieval city divided into 17...
Extraordinary Rituals
Episode 1 - Circle of Life
- Broadcast
- 2018 (58 mins)
Extraordinary Rituals explores the spectacular and emotional world of rituals. In our frenzied lives rituals answer our human needs and desires; they teach us how to love, how to let go and where we belong....
Civilisations
Episode 9 -The Vital Spark
- Broadcast
- 2018 (59 mins)
Simon Schama begins Civilisations with this premise: that it is in art - the play of the creative imagination - that humanity expresses its most essential self: the power to break the tyranny of the humdrum,...
Civilisations
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...
Civilisations
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...
Civilisations
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...
Civilisations
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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