A History of the World in 100 Objects

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2020-12-25

  A History of the World: Object 101

Ten years on from the ground-breaking Radio 4 series, "A History of The World in 100 Objects", former director of the British Museum Neil MacGregor looks back at the impact of the series, on how storytelling in museums has changed over a turbulent deca... 		  BBC Radio 4 author
2020-03-09

  Introducing You're Dead To Me – Series 2

Greg Jenner introduces the new series of his BBC history podcast, You're Dead To Me. 		  BBC Radio 4 author
2010-10-22

  Solar-powered lamp and charger

The very last episode in Neil MacGregor's history of humanity as told through the things that time has left behind. The director of the British Museum in London has spent the past year choosing objects from the museum's vast collection to represent a t... 		  BBC Radio 4 author
2010-10-21

  Credit card

Neil MacGregor's history of the world as told through things. Throughout this week he is examining objects that speak of the great shifts in human organisation and thinking in the modern world - objects that raise questions about human lives, the envir... 		  BBC Radio 4 author
2010-10-20

  Throne of Weapons

The history of humanity, as told through one hundred objects from the British Museum in London, is drawing to an end. Throughout this week, Neil MacGregor, the director of the British Museum in London, has been with things that help explain the moder... 		  BBC Radio 4 author
2010-10-19

  Hockney's In the Dull Village

This week Neil MacGregor's history of the world is examining the forces that helped shape our way of life and ways of thinking today. He began with the political revolution that exploded In Russia in the 1920s and today he moves on to the sexual revolu... 		  BBC Radio 4 author
2010-10-18

  Russian revolutionary plate

Neil MacGregor's history of the world as told through things that time has left behind. Throughout this closing week he is examining some of the major social and political movements that have helped shape our contemporary landscape. Today he tells the ... 		  BBC Radio 4 author
2010-10-15

  Suffragette-defaced penny

Neil MacGregor's world history told through objects from the British Museum in London. The objects he has chosen this week have reflected on mass production and mass consumption in the 19th century. Today' he is with the first object from the 20th cent... 		  BBC Radio 4 author
2010-10-14

  Sudanese slit drum

The history of humanity as told through one hundred objects from the British Museum in London. This week Neil MacGregor, the Director of the Museum, is looking at Europe's engagement with the rest of the world during the 18th Century. Today he is wit... 		  BBC Radio 4 author
2010-10-13

  Hokusai's The Great Wave

The history of humanity - as told through one hundred objects from the British Museum in London - is once again in Japan. This week Neil MacGregor, the museum's director, is looking at the global economy in the 19th century - at mass production and mas... 		  BBC Radio 4 author