Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel's development of dynamite.
Second in a three-part film. Arthur Wellesley proved his worth in such spectacular successes as the Battle of Salamanca, and won the admiration of Europe before encountering Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo.
With George Alagiah.
A panel discussion on business, culture, politics and science.
Until the 1960s the only accents heard in the media were those of Oxbridge and the Establishment. But with the boom in popular culture - as embodied in pirate radio, the Beatles, the the sixties and punk - the ubiquity of received pronunciation was soon under threat.
A three-part series on the literary triumvirate of Thomas, Heinrich and Klaus Mann, which explores the turbulent times they lived through and their influence on Germany. This opening instalment documents life in the family between 1923 and 1933. Starring Armin Mueller-Stahl, Jurgen Hentsch and Sebastian Koch. In German with English subtitles.
Profile of African-Caribbean writer Frantz Fanon, whose work on colonialism, racism and revolution became influential after his death in the 1960s.
