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Captain Cook with Sam Neill

The Pacific In The Wake of Captain Cook with Sam Neill ep. 3

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Having fulfilled his Admiralty brief Captain Cook opted to tale the long way back to Britain so he could chart the East Coast of Australia and explore the mysterious land. The Aboriginal people showed more caution than their Polynesian counterparts upon the Endeavour’s arrival seemingly indifferent to the strangers and wishing them gone.     This understandable reticence was misinterpreted […]

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King Arthur's Britain

King Arthur’s Britain – The Truth Unearthed

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With exclusive access to a major new excavation, Alice Roberts pulls together all the latest evidence to reveal what Dark Age Britain was really like. In the fifth century, the future of Britain hung in the balance; after four centuries of straight roads and hot and cold running water the Romans upped and left, called back to support their own

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The Pacific In The Wake of Captain Cook with Sam Neill ep. 2

The Pacific In The Wake of Captain Cook with Sam Neill ep. 2

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The second of six episodes following Sam Neill travelling in the wake of Captain Cook around the Pacific, 250 years on from when Cook made his first voyage. This episode sees Sam in New Zealand, a country he calls home. Sam considers not only the cultural ramifications of Cook’s first interactions with the Maori people but also the continuous social

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The Pacific In The Wake of Captain Cook with Sam Neill

The Pacific In The Wake of Captain Cook with Sam Neill ep. 1

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250 YEARS AFTER Captain James Cook began his epic exploration of the Pacific, Sam Neill journeys in the wake, uncovering stories that resonate from those times on both sides of the beach. Visiting the islands and lands where Cook went and meeting the descendants of the people Cook met, Sam hears their stories from oral tradition. What did Cook’s arrival

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Andrew Marr’s History of the World part 5

Andrew Marr’s History of the World part 5

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In Andrew Marr’s History of the World part 5 – Age of Plunder, Andrew tells the story of Europe’s rise from piracy to private enterprise. The explosion of global capitalism began with Christopher Columbus stumbling across America while searching for China. While Europe tore itself apart in religious wars after the Reformation, the Spanish colonised the New World and brought

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Andrew Marr’s History of the World part 4

Andrew Marr’s History of the World part 4

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In Andrew Marr’s History of the World part 4, Andrew Marr reaches the Middle Ages. After the collapse of the Roman Empire, Europe was little more than a muddy backwater. Vikings explored and pillaged from Northern Europe to North America.     But they also laid the foundations of powerful new trading states – including Russia. This was also the Golden Age

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Andrew Marr’s History of the World part 3

Andrew Marr’s History of the World part 3

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In Andrew Marr’s History of the World part 3, Andrew Marr plunges into the spiritual revolutions that shook the world between 300 BC and 700 AD. This was an age that saw the bloody prince Ashoka turn to Buddhism in India, the ill-fated union of Julius Caesar and Egypt’s Cleopatra, the unstoppable rise of Christianity across the Roman Empire and

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Andrew Marr’s History of the World part 2

Andrew Marr’s History of the World part 2

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In Andrew Marr’s History of the World part 2, Andrew Marr tells the story of the first empires which laid the foundations for the modern world. From the Assyrians to Alexander the Great, conquerors rampaged across the Middle East and vicious wars were fought all the way from China to the Mediterranean. But this time of chaos and destruction also

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Andrew Marr's History of the World part 1

Andrew Marr’s History of the World part 1

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In “Andrew Marr’s History of the World part 1” Andrew Marr sets off on an epic journey through 70,000 years of human history. Using dramatic reconstructions, documentary filming around the world and cutting-edge computer graphics, he reveals the decisive moments that shaped the world we live in today, telling stories we thought we knew and others we were never told.

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The Vietnam War episode 6

The Vietnam War episode 6

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The Vietnam War episode 6 – Things Fall Apart In The Vietnam War episode 6, on the eve of the Tet holiday, North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces launch surprise attacks on cities and military bases throughout the south, suffering devastating losses but casting grave doubt on Johnson’s promise that there is “light at the end of the tunnel.” The president

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The Vietnam War episode 5

The Vietnam War episode 5

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In The Vietnam War episode 5, american casualties and enemy body counts mount as Marines face deadly North Vietnamese ambushes and artillery south of the DMZ and Army units chase an elusive enemy in the central highlands. Hanoi lays plans for a massive surprise offensive, and the Johnson Administration reassures the American public that victory is in sight.    

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The Vietnam War episode 4

The Vietnam War episode 4

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In The Vietnam War episode 4, defying American airpower, North Vietnamese troops and materiel stream down the Ho Chi Minh Trail into the south, while Saigon struggles to “pacify the countryside.” As an antiwar movement builds back home, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and Marines discover that the war they are being asked to fight in Vietnam is nothing like

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