Ray’s History Radio & TV Picks. No.2016/09. 4 March 2016.

[Ray Boyles]

Ray’s History Radio & TV Picks. No.2016/09. 4 March 2016.

Archive On 4: A Brief History Of Disobedience
BBC Radio 4: Sat 5 Mar 2016, 20.00 – 21.00
US satirist Joe Queenan explores the idea of not doing what you’re told. Recordings from the archives include features on Gandhi, Martin Luther and the women of Greenham Common.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0729t65

Sunday Feature: The Venice Ghetto
BBC Radio 3: Sun 6 Mar 2016, 18.45 – 19.30
Marking the 500th anniversary of the establishment of the Jewish ghetto in Venice, Jerry Brotton travels to the watery city. He discovers that the ghetto, the first of its kind in the world, was in many ways more a place of refuge than isolation. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b072hsxl

Beowulf: Return to the Shieldlands
ITV: Sun 6 Mar 2016, 19.00 – 20.00. 10 / 12: Fantasy drama series.
With suspicion over her brother growing Rheda is eager to discredit Beowulf’s accusations.
http://www.radiotimes.com/episode/d2d254/beowulf-return-to-the-shieldlands–series-1-episode-10

Museum of Lost Objects
BBC Radio 4: 7 Mar to Fri 11 Mar 2016, Daily 12.04 – 12.15. Parts 6 to 10.
Series tracing the stories of ten antiquities and cultural sites that have been destroyed or looted in Iraq and Syria.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0738jc2/broadcasts/upcoming

The Renaissance Unchained
BBC Four: Mon 7 Mar 2016, 21.00 – 22.00. 4 / 4. Hell, Snakes and Giants
Waldemar Januszczak’s series concludes with the late Renaissance. Much of the art of the era, he contends, was dark and strange – and paintings certainly don’t get much weirder or more disturbing than Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights, which Januszczak explores in detail. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b072wvy9

Making History
BBC Radio 4: Tue 8 Mar 2016, 15.00 – 15.30. 5 / 8.
The latest historical and archaeological research. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b072jlgq

The Three Musketeers (2011)
Film4: Wed 9 Mar 2016, 18.50 – 21.00.
Rip-snorting, steampunk-styled feature film version of Alexandre Dumas’ swashbuckling classic.
http://www.film4.com/reviews/2011/the-three-musketeers

In Our Time: The Maya Civilization
BBC Radio 4: Thu 10 Mar 2016, 09.00 – 09.45.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Maya Civilization, developed by the Maya people, which flourished in Central America from around 250 AD. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b072n5x3

Digging For Britain
BBC Four: Thu 10 Mar 2016, 21.00 – 21.00. 1 /4.
The series charting work at British archaeological sites returns. In the first of four episodes, presenters Alice Roberts and Matt Williams focus on the west of Britain where, among other highlights, they learn about evidence of strange Iron Age animal rituals in Dorset. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b073b1xn

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