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In 2010, the BBC and the British Museum embarked on an ambitious project: to tell the story of 2,000,000 years of human history using 100 objects selected from the museum's vast and renowned collection. Presented by the British Museum's then director Neil MacGregor, each episode focuses on a single object - from a Stone Age tool to a solar-powered lamp - and explains its significance in human history.

For the past 140 years, Germany has been the central power in continental Europe. Thirty years ago, a new German state came into being. How much do we really understand this new Germany, and how do its people now understand themselves? Neil MacGregor argues that uniquely for any European country, no coherent, over-arching narrative of Germany's history can be constructed, for in Germany, both geography and history have always been unstable.

Neil MacGregor, Direktor des British Museum, beschreibt nicht nur 100 Objekte, sondern erschließt uns durch ihre Betrachtung immer auch ein Stück Weltgeschichte. Wer den hier versammelten Dingen - vom afrikanischen Faustkeil bis zur Solarlampe made in China - auf diese Weise begegnet, erlebt von der ersten bis zur letzten Minute ein intellektuelles und ästhetisches Vergnügen und eines der außergewöhnlichsten Radio-Projekte der letzten Jahre. Stoff genug für 22 Stunden spannender Unterhaltung, die von Hanns Zischler farbig und lebendig präsentiert werden.

Von Rosenkränzen, Hünengräbern und Opfergaben: eine spannende Reise zu den Ursprüngen des Glaubens. Von der elementaren Anbetung von Feuer, Wasser und Sonne über Feste, Pilgerreisen und Opfergaben bis zu kirchlichen Machtkämpfen: Neil MacGregor untersucht anhand ausgewählter Objekte aus dem British Museum, wie der Glaube dabei geholfen hat, Gesellschaften zu formen. In Gesprächen mit Experten unterschiedlichster Disziplinen und vom Ganges bis nach Jerusalem reisend, bewegt sich sein Fokus von der fernen Vergangenheit bis in unsere Tage.

A podcast dedicated to reviewing and breaking down 2 movies every week. Hosted by 2 open-mic comedians with no qualifications and nothing better to do. If our opinions are dumb we will at least make them funny.

Trish & Rob MacGregor and Jon Posey welcome you to The Mystical Underground, a place where all kinds of phenomena flourish. Here, voices whisper ancient secrets, signs and symbols are abundant, UFOs, ETs, ghosts, and even the dead move about freely. Pilots fly into the Bermuda Triangle and live to tell about it, dreams and visions of future events come true, mind to mind communication is the norm. Here, we meet authors, researchers, and investigators of the mysterious, the strange, and of the inexplicable anomalies that surround us. Step out of the everyday world and take a journey into the ...

Dive into the fascinating life of George Mackay, a prominent Presbyterian missionary who left a significant mark in northern Taiwan between 1844 and 1901. This podcast provides an engaging, fictionalized account of his life, as summarized by Edmund Bloxam.

Three friends revisit movies from their youth to see if they hold up as well as their nostalgia says they do.

A bard brews tea, philosophy, and narrative storytelling together to create a listening experience similar to time at the tea table. Come and join your bardic host on a journey of mindfulness, reflection, and appreciation of Camellia Sinensis!

David MacGregor (Broken Chanter, Kid Canaveral) and Charlotte Printer (Joesef, Skippinish, Broken Chanter) go beyond every musician's favourite question and interview guests about the often unglamorous reality of life as a musician.. Part of the Glad Radio family. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.