Comments on: Neil MacGregor: 2600 years of history in one object https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/02/24/neil-macgregor-2600-years-of-h/ Sun, 26 Feb 2012 17:50:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: MikeB https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/02/24/neil-macgregor-2600-years-of-h/#comment-491446 Sun, 26 Feb 2012 17:50:24 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2012/02/24/neil-macgregor-2600-years-of-h/#comment-491446 The podcasts were first broadcast last year in two ten week series, last year. Excellent series (although someone did complain that they really wanted to see the objects, which is a bit of a challenge for a radio programme), and the Beeb also gave a chance for people to choose their own object http://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/

There is even a book to accompany the series.

One of my favourites is Hinton St Mary, with the mosiac (I’m a Romanist and I was brought up in Dorset), but probably the most emotional was was the Olduvai handaxe – I’d just handled one at the BM a couple of weeks before – there was something very special about it.

]]> By: PaulG https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/02/24/neil-macgregor-2600-years-of-h/#comment-491445 Fri, 24 Feb 2012 23:00:45 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2012/02/24/neil-macgregor-2600-years-of-h/#comment-491445 If you’ve got 25 hours to spare, you can also hear him do “A History of the World in 100 Objects” as a series of 100 15-minute podcasts.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/ahow

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