Secrets of the Castle
On Secrets of the Castle, historian Ruth Goodman and archaeologists Peter Ginn and Tom Pinfold are taking part in the world's largest archeological experiment, Guédelon Castle. Using the same materials…
Arts & Ideas Podcast: Marriage
Why marry? Jane Austen began her novel Pride and Prejudice with the observation "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must…
War & Peace 2016
War & Peace is a British historical drama television serial first broadcast on BBC One on 3 January 2016, produced by BBC Cymru Wales, in association with The Weinstein Company,…
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Living in Britain in 1984 | Forty Minutes: Voices in a City | Classic BBC Documentary | BBC Archive
In 1948, George Orwell wrote his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, an imaginary account of what life in Britain might be like in that year. Of his book, Orwell said: 'I do…
Gull sips man’s coffee before stealing his mug
A gull has taken revenge on a man who was installing anti-bird spikes in a Cornish town - by drinking his coffee and pinching his mug. {read}
BBC Medieval Lives: Birth, Marriage, Death Documentary
For a medieval woman approaching the moment of labour and birth, there were no antiseptics to ward off infection or anaesthetics to deal with pain. Historian Helen Castor reveals how…
John Berger on Ways of Seeing, being an artist, and Marxism (2011)
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Babysitter finds man under bed after child complains of ‘monster’
A babysitter found a man hiding under a child's bed in Kansas after the child complained about a "monster" being there. While trying to show the child there was nothing…
Tooth and Claw: Wolves
We look at wolves and the programme is a little different, because the predator we’re talking about is very much a predator of our imaginations. Wolves are the spirit of…