A History Of The World In 100 Objects

[Man of Harveys]

...is BACK from today, both on the radio and hopefully later on in podcast form too. Glory glory: it's absolutely the best public sector broadcasting BRAINFOOD that could ever exist; utterly unmissable. Anyone else a fan? I know our Afters is, he put me on to it. Get on and large.

 

[ManOnTheRun]

Yep ... love it. Listened to every episode of the first batch. Been looking forwards to it's return. Starting with a biggie today ... Alexander The Great!

 

[Cheshire Cat]

:yahoo::yahoo::yahoo:

 

[Man of Harveys]

The podcast is up on iTunes now.

 

[Horton's halftime iceberg]

Great stuff, I like having a look on the website after to see if it is how I imagined it, most the time my imagined version looks better. I also imagine the head fella at the British museam to look just like the fella in 'league of gentlemen' who played Malcolm McClaran last night in the Boy George drama.

BBC - A History of the World - Explorer

 

[Mtoto]

Wasn't hugely gripped by Alexander the Great as his story is so well-known, but I thought the one about Ashoka was fascinating, mainly because I did not have the foggiest who he was, despite having eaten in no end of Indian restaurants named after him.

 

[Jim in the West]

Just started listening in the last few days - wondering how I missed the first lot, and about to download them from iTunes now. Brilliant stuff, especially as my car radio is on the blink and I can't get Radio 5Live.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Rosetta stone - marvellous scenes

BBC - A History of the World - Object: Rosetta Stone

 

[Lord Bracknell]

The most BORING programme on the wireless. And why is it repeated so often?

 

[Cheshire Cat]

The most BORING programme on the wireless. And why is it repeated so often?

Rubbish

It is repeated to allow the ignorant the most chances to learn.

 

[Man of Harveys]

The most BORING programme on the wireless. And why is it repeated so often?

Kids today. No attention span...

 

[aftershavedave]

The most BORING programme on the wireless. And why is it repeated so often?

it's repeated once!

finest production from radio 4 in ages.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

To be fair, it probably IS boring if you already KNOW EVERYTHING...

 

[Franks Wild Years]

Got to agree MOH, its ruddy brilliant.

 

[Man of Harveys]

To be fair, it probably IS boring if you already KNOW EVERYTHING...

And if you were actually THERE when the Rosetta Stone was written...

 

[Horton's halftime iceberg]

Heres one for the Lord to get his chops around; Podcast: The Large Hadron Collider and the Search for the Higgs-Boson. I will spend 15 minutes grappling with a Chinese tea cup.

Podcast: The Large Hadron Collider and the Search for the Higgs-Boson | Universe Today

 

[Cheshire Cat]

More cerebral stuff

BBC - Radio 4 In Our Time - Homepage