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Beard takes the Via Appia to Rome to show the lives of ordinary citizens in imperial times, those citizens who would be in the top seats of the Colosseum. She takes a boat to Rome's port Ostia , where imported goods come from all over the Mediterranean, and she takes us into the bowels of Monte Testaccio .
Civilisations is a 2018 British art history television documentary series produced by the BBC in association with PBS as a follow-up to the original 1969 landmark series Civilisation by Kenneth Clark. Individual episodes are presented by Simon Schama, Mary Beard, and David Olusoga, [1] with music composed by Tandis Jenhudson. [2]
Dame Winifred Mary Beard (born 1 January 1955) [1] is an English classicist specialising in Ancient Rome. She is a trustee of the British Museum and formerly held a personal professorship of classics at the University of Cambridge. [2] She is a fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge, and Royal Academy of Arts Professor of Ancient Literature.
The BBC announced in 2015 that it was to make a ten-episode sequel to Clark's series, to be called Civilisations (plural), with three presenters, Mary Beard, David Olusoga and Simon Schama. A co-production with PBS in the United States, it would not cover western European civilisation in the same detail, but would additionally cover Graeco ...
This is a list of programs produced by All3Media, the UK's largest independent television, film and digital production and distribution company and is currently owned by RedBird IMI, a joint venture between RedBird Capital Partners and UAE-funded enterprise International Media Investments.
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"Ghost Ships" ("The Mary Celeste"): Some of the Maritime's deep rooted mysteries are of ships that disappear only to reappear as ghostly apparitions upon the waves. Discusses famous "ghost ships" such as the Flying Dutchman, as well as derelict vessels like the Mary Celeste and Carroll A. Deering.
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