And then we watched the next Secret Britain - which covered the middle-ish chunk of England from East Anglia across to Wales. This could've covered a whole bunch of stuff where I knew the area, but it missed out Suffolk & Oxfordshire & Cambridgeshire - it did at least do somewhere in Pembrokeshire where I think I recognised the starting point (and I had no idea there were lilyponds near Broad Haven beach). Same mix as the first episode of some really neat looking places (the limestone mine in the Peak District was awesome, for instance) with "public participation" slots that were a bit twee (although the chap with his tree that had significance to his family was good, the other two bits were less so), and some fairly shallow looks at all these places (all "oh gosh, wow" and move on). Still, it's not bad light entertainment :)
The Story of Science; Secret Britain
And then we watched the next Secret Britain - which covered the middle-ish chunk of England from East Anglia across to Wales. This could've covered a whole bunch of stuff where I knew the area, but it missed out Suffolk & Oxfordshire & Cambridgeshire - it did at least do somewhere in Pembrokeshire where I think I recognised the starting point (and I had no idea there were lilyponds near Broad Haven beach). Same mix as the first episode of some really neat looking places (the limestone mine in the Peak District was awesome, for instance) with "public participation" slots that were a bit twee (although the chap with his tree that had significance to his family was good, the other two bits were less so), and some fairly shallow looks at all these places (all "oh gosh, wow" and move on). Still, it's not bad light entertainment :)
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"China: The World's Oldest Civilisation Revealed" John Makeham (Part 3)
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In Our Time: The Upanishads
The Upanishads are some of the sacred texts of Hinduism, originally transmitted orally from father to son in the priest families they were written…
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