Catching up with the week
Post categories: Documentaries,ÌýRound-up,ÌýVideo
| 13:38 UK time, Wednesday, 19 May 2010
It's been a busy week already for A History of the World, so I thought I'd just round up all that has happened so far and furnish you with a few links to things you may have missed.
I assume, if you're reading this, that you know the Radio 4 series began its second part on Monday with a coin showing the head of Alexander the Great. But did you catch Neil MacGregor on Start the Week just before that episode? He was talking about today's object the Rosetta Stone and how it is one of the objects whose history really inspired the whole concept of the radio series. Have a listen.
Then late on Monday evening there were 12 regional documentaries on 91Èȱ¬ One looking at ideas and inventions which different areas of England had given the world.
I still want to catch up with some more of these, particularly the one from the East Midlands about the invention of lock gates - I think we forget how important our canal system was to the industrial revolution, and the one from the North East about a wooden clock.
If there was one of these documentaries that you wanted to see but it wasn't shown in your region, then right now you can watch any of them on the iPlayer.
And while you're there you might be interested in the Story of Science. Somehow I have missed this whole series - I think I've been watching a certain bald and barmy chef/scientist eat chocolate graveyards on another channel - but I saw about half of last night's show and instantly spotted an object from our site.
This episode charts the history of inventions that create power - from water and wind power to steam power, power stations and nuclear power - and right in the middle was Trevithick's steam locomotive which is on the site from the National Waterfront Museum Wales. You can see Michael Mosley taking a bone-shaking ride on it about 23 minutes into the programme.
Finally, the Sunday programme on Radio 4 has started looking at religious and spiritual objects. This week they had an interview with the poet Andrew Motion, who has a small Hindu carving on his desk when he writes. Listen to the show or watch this short clip to find out how he came by it and what it means to him.
I assume, if you're reading this, that you know the Radio 4 series began its second part on Monday with a coin showing the head of Alexander the Great. But did you catch Neil MacGregor on Start the Week just before that episode? He was talking about today's object the Rosetta Stone and how it is one of the objects whose history really inspired the whole concept of the radio series. Have a listen.
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Then late on Monday evening there were 12 regional documentaries on 91Èȱ¬ One looking at ideas and inventions which different areas of England had given the world.
I still want to catch up with some more of these, particularly the one from the East Midlands about the invention of lock gates - I think we forget how important our canal system was to the industrial revolution, and the one from the North East about a wooden clock.
If there was one of these documentaries that you wanted to see but it wasn't shown in your region, then right now you can watch any of them on the iPlayer.
And while you're there you might be interested in the Story of Science. Somehow I have missed this whole series - I think I've been watching a certain bald and barmy chef/scientist eat chocolate graveyards on another channel - but I saw about half of last night's show and instantly spotted an object from our site.
This episode charts the history of inventions that create power - from water and wind power to steam power, power stations and nuclear power - and right in the middle was Trevithick's steam locomotive which is on the site from the National Waterfront Museum Wales. You can see Michael Mosley taking a bone-shaking ride on it about 23 minutes into the programme.
Finally, the Sunday programme on Radio 4 has started looking at religious and spiritual objects. This week they had an interview with the poet Andrew Motion, who has a small Hindu carving on his desk when he writes. Listen to the show or watch this short clip to find out how he came by it and what it means to him.
In order to see this content you need to have both Javascript enabled and Flash installed. Visit 91Èȱ¬ÌýWebwise for full instructions
- The full list of A History of the World regional documentaries is: The Age of Steam;Ìý A Tale of Two Rival Cities; Brighton, The First Resort; The Clock that Changed the World; Cumbria's Atomic Pioneers; Jenner's Marvellous Medicine; King Alfred the Great?; The Man Who Shrank the Globe; Ploughs, Cows and Clover; Suffragette City; Towton 1461; Unlocking the Midlands.
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