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A History of the World in 100 Objects

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Director of the British Museum, Neil MacGregor, retells humanity's history through objects

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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A History of the World in 100 Objects: The World of Our Making (1914 - 2010 AD): Hockney's In the Dull Village

Hockney's In the Dull Village

The World of Our Making (1914 - 2010 AD)

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Neil MacGregor considers the state of human rights - with a David Hockney print.

Neil MacGregor's world history as told through objects. Today, a David Hockney print from the height of the sexual revolution.

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 revolution of the 1960s. He explores the emergence of legally enshrined human rights and the status of sexuality around the world. He tells the story with the aid of a David Hockney print, one of a series that was made in 1966 as the decriminalisation of homosexuality was being planned, at least in Britain. We hear from David Hockney on the spirit of the decade and from Shami Chakrabarti, the director of the human rights group Liberty 

Producer: Anthony Denselow


A History of the World in 100 Objects: The World of Our Making (1914 - 2010 AD)

Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

Neil MacGregor explores aspects of contemporary sexual, political and economic history.

Neil MacGregor concludes the series with five objects whose stories explore different aspects of our world from plastics to propaganda, sexual revolutions to war.

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