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A sequence of sections on music including: music from Mali and Nepal; the Eton Choir Book; composing for films; Indian music; Sundanese gamelan; historical keyboard instruments
Music performance: Alison Bury, violin; the Eroica String Quartet; Crispian Steele-Perkins, trumpet; the Gamelan Galura (Sundanese gamelan); ‘Lucia de Lammermoor’ (Italian opera)
Looks at a selection of almshouses, hospitals and churches built in France, England, Scotland and Ireland in the 17th century, examining the role played by patrons and ocmmunities in their construction, and...
Examines six royal palaces built in the 17th century, looking at the symbolic purposes for which they were constructed - as expressions of authority and power and to strengthen the realm. Shows the...
6: Three examples - Heriot’s Hospital, Corsham Free School and Sir John Moore’s School - to show can be learned from buildings about education, patronage and life in 17th-century Britain.
14 (presented by Anne Laurence): Summarises the course.
The Grand Tour took many people of taste and wealth to Italy in the 18th century. Antique artefacts brought back from some of these travels form the nucleus of many of today’s museum collections. This...
The ‘Encyclopédie’ is probably one of the greatest single enterprises of the 18th-century Enlightenment. Edited by Diderot and d’Alembert, it was published in France between 1751 and 1772. Giles...
Extracts from ‘Dialogue in the Dark’, a play by Michael Ignatieff. It is a dramatisation of the last conversation between James Boswell and the philosopher David Hume, weeks before Hume’s death. The...
Frederick the Great ruled Prussia from his newly-built palace, Sans Souci, in Potsdam. Built to his own design, the building reveals much about the character of Frederick, who wanted to be seen as an...
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