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A History of the World in 100 Objects
by BBC Radio 4
Today: #124 in History on our combined chart.
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About the show
Director of the British Museum, Neil MacGregor, narrates 100 programmes that retell humanity's history through the objects we have made.
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December 25, 2020 · 38 minTen 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…
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October 22, 2010 · 14 minThe 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…
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Credit card
October 21, 2010 · 14 minNeil 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…
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Throne of Weapons
October 20, 2010 · 14 minThe 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…
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Hockney's In the Dull Village
October 19, 2010 · 13 minThis 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…
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Russian revolutionary plate
October 18, 2010 · 14 minNeil 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…
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Suffragette-defaced penny
October 15, 2010 · 14 minNeil 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…