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What the Romans Did for Us

The innovations and inventions brought to Britain by the Romans.

What the Romans Did for Us: Shorts: Food

18/10/2003

Food

Shorts

BBC Two - What the Romans Did for Us, Shorts, Food

Adam Hart-Davis shows us the Romans knew how to eat well, and  tastes Roman cuisine.

Innovations and inventions introduced by the Romans including amburgers, asparagus, salmon stuffed with bay leaves and wine. Adam Hart-Davis gets a taste for Roman cuisine.

Innovations and inventions introduced by the Romans. Hamburgers, asparagus, salmon stuffed with bay leaves and wine. Adam Hart-Davis shows us the Romans knew how to eat well, and gets a taste for Roman cuisine.

What the Romans Did for Us: Shorts

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Series looking at the innovations and inventions brought to Britain by the Romans.

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The gold standard for arts documentaries, from 1975 to the present day.

The gold standard for arts documentaries, from 1975 to the present day. A cultural map of the world’s greatest artists and musicians, as captured by exceptional film-makers.

Arena: Dylan Thomas: From Grave to Cradle

22/11/2003

Dylan Thomas: From Grave to Cradle

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An examination of the work and the legend of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas. (2003)

An examination of the work and the legend of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas in the year of the 50th anniversary of his death. (2003)

Author and broadcaster Nigel Williams examines the work and the legend of one of the most famous poets of the 20th century, Dylan Thomas. 

Born in 1914, Dylan Thomas was an unruly and undisciplined child who was interested only in English at school and was determined from childhood to become a poet. Little did he know that he would eventually become world-renowned.

Cited by Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Van Morrison and other cultural icons as a profound influence, Thomas occupies the space more readily associated with the likes of James Dean and Jack Kerouac, both of whom he preceded. 

But it was his death that truly made him a legend. Did Dylan Thomas really die after drinking 18 straight whiskies at The White Horse in New York? Was he a genius or a sponging, womanising drunk? 

The film unravels the myth by tracing the poet's biography backwards, from his much written about, much lied about death to the heart of the Dylan Thomas story and his beginnings in a quiet street in suburban Swansea. (2003)

Secrets of Leadership: Episode 4: John F. Kennedy

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Episode 4: John F. Kennedy

Secrets of Leadership

John F. Kennedy

BBC Two - Secrets of Leadership, John F. Kennedy

Andrew Roberts highlights John F Kennedy's talent for making the public like him.

Andrew Roberts highlights John F Kennedy's talent for making the public like him through his understanding that the key to power lay in creating his own myth. 

John F Kennedy is widely seen as one of the greatest leaders of the 20th century. For many he was the ideal presidential candidate; a vigorous, happily married man, accomplished writer and war hero. But all was not as it seemed. Kennedy understood the key to power lay in creating his own myth and, more than any other politican, he understood how to make the public like him. Andrew Roberts reveals JFK's secrets and shows how they are now at the heart of contemporary leadership all over the world.

Andrew Roberts reveals the leadership secrets of four famous political figureheads.

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