Tales from the Map Room
- Synopsis
- Series on the history of maps, with actors recreating key moments from map-making history and cartographers explaining the importance of maps.
1: The history of London as seen through various of maps produced from 1745 onwards.
2: Sea charts, essential for avoiding hazards at sea. A re-creation shows Samuel Pepys in an imaginary interview for ‘Desert Island Discs’ and Captain Bligh claiming that Captain Hook took the credit for much of Bligh ‘s own work.
3: Route-finding and specialist road maps and atlases, which first appeared in the 19th century.
4: Maps in war: looks at World War 1 battle fields of Cambrai through maps made on during the battle.
5: How mapping land and setting frontiers have always been subject to controversy, with stories from Elizabethian England to the modern Middle East.
6: How maps can never tell the whole truth: secrecy, censorship, disinformation and half-truths are all part of map-making history. - Language
- English
- Country
- Great Britain
- Medium
- Video; Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 6 x 30 min.
- Year of production
- 1993
- Availability
- Sale; 1996 sale: £65.00 (+VAT +p&p) each 1996 sale: £250.00 (+VAT +p&p) series
- Notes
- Broadcast on BBC1 from 6 May 1993.
- Subjects
- History
- Keywords
- maps and mapping
Credits
- Producer
- Julian Stenhouse
Sections
- Title
- Metropolis 2
- Synopsis
- 1: The history of London as seen through various of maps produced from 1745 onwards.
- Title
- On the rocks
- Synopsis
- 2: Sea charts, essential for avoiding hazards at sea. A re-creation shows Samuel Pepys in an imaginary interview for 'Desert Island Discs' and Captain Bligh claiming that Captain Hook took the credit for much of Bligh 's own work.
- Title
- On the road
- Synopsis
- 3: Route-finding and specialist road maps and atlases, which first appeared in the 19th century.
- Title
- Fog of war, The
- Synopsis
- 4: Maps in war: looks at World War 1 battle fields of Cambrai through maps made on during the battle.
- Title
- Plum pudding in danger
- Synopsis
- 5: How mapping land and setting frontiers have always been subject to controversy, with stories from Elizabethian England to the modern Middle East.
- Title
- Tissues of lies, A
- Synopsis
- 6: How maps can never tell the whole truth: secrecy, censorship, disinformation and half-truths are all part of map-making history.
Production Company
Sponsor
- Name
BBC Television
Distributor
- Name
BBC Active Video for Learning - now BBC Learning
- Contact
- Carolina Fernandez Jeremy Wilcox (CF - for educational enquiries JW - channel sales manager)
- BBCStudiosLearning@bbc.com
- Web
- https://www.bbcstudioslearning.com/ External site opens in new window
- Phone
- +44 (0) 20 8433 1009
- Address
- BBC Studios Limited
Television Centre
101 Wood Lane
London
W12 7FA
UK - Notes
- The BBC Active company has now been absorbed within BBC Learning, a division of BBC Studios. It was originally a joint venture between BBC Worldwide and Pearson Education. Formerly known as ‘BBC Worldwide Learning Studies’ and before that as ‘Videos for Education & Training’
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