A study of Aldous Huxley. (S)
Rapid industrial expansion. (S)
Berlin A visit to the cosmopolitan city.
A study of Aldous Huxley. (S)
Rapid industrial expansion. (S)
Berlin A visit to the cosmopolitan city.
A study of Aldous Huxley. (S)
Rapid industrial expansion. (S)
Berlin A visit to the cosmopolitan city.
A study of Aldous Huxley. (S)
With author Junot Diaz.
The inventor of the pneumatic tyre. (S)
Britain's architectural heritage. (S)
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, a concert featuring Varese's Arcana, violinist Joshua Bell playing Bernstein's Serenade and his West Side Story Suite, and Ravel's Bolero. Performed by the BBC Philharmonic.
With the maritime novelist Patrick 0' Brian.
The story of Mata Hari, the Dutch woman who was executed by the French for espionage in 1917. (S)
Part two of the dramatisation of Edith Wharton's novel. The women are ready to launch their first major assault on the English aristocracy. (S)
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A study of Aldous Huxley. (S)
Michael Wood traces Alexander the Great's route through Pakistan, the plains of Punjab, down the Indus river and across the Makran desert to Babylon where Alexander died aged 32.
The final leg of the voyage takes the warrior king to the Punjab. (S)