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Second in a series of three lectures in which Professor Ian Christie explores key moments in the portrayal of London in cinema over the past century, and what these portrayals may mean locally and...
Stereoscopic photography rapidly became a worldwide craze after the Great Exhibition of 1851. Cheap viewers and mass-produced stereographs brought startlingly vivid images within reach of a mass audience,...
First in a series of three lectures in which Professor Ian Christie explores key moments in the portrayal of London in cinema over the past century, and what these portrayals may mean locally and...
Barry Edelstein, Artistic Director of The Old Globe, discusses the theatre’s film series featuring the work of four filmmakers: Julie Taymor, Peter Brook, Al Pacino and Baz Luhrmann.
Lecture given by Sir David Attenborough on 12 October 2009, at Cambridge University. Attenborough was speaking as part iof the ‘Personal Histories of Media and Archaeology’ oral history project. He...
We know a great deal about media gadgetry in retrospect, but much less about how it was perceived and experienced by early users. Historians at the end of the 19th century have traditionally paid little...
Documentary about the history and principles of mathematics presented by astrophysicist and writer Mario Livio, along with other mathematicians, physicists, and engineers. The programme traces the...
Members of the Leicester branch of the British Korean Veterans’ Association talk about their memories of the Korean War. [67 minutes]
Jonathan Meades investigates the architecture of Mussolini’s Italy. He finds a dictator caught between the forces of modernism and a revivalism that harked back to ancient Rome.
Animation. Economist Ha-Joon Chang explains why it is important for everyone to understand basic economics. He clarifies the often mystifying language of derivatives and quantitative easing, and explains how...
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