Gore Vidal, 1925-2012

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Protectorado

Avoient mis en leur obeissance tout le roiaulme de Gallice.

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Don't want your social disease

 

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O seu Imperio

Empire is a major five-part series presented by one of British television’s most distinguished broadcasters, Jeremy Paxman. It tells the story of the British Empire in a new way, tracing not only the rise and fall of the empire but also the complex effects of the empire on the modern world – political, technological and social – and on Britain.  

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Os 70

Historian Dominic Sandbrook takes us on an eye opening and refreshing journey deep into Britain in the 1970s.

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Sexo e sensibilidade

Series which looks at how the Art Nouveau movement flourished in the burgeoning cities of Europe at the end of the 19th century.

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As Lobas

Historian Dr Helen Castor explores the lives of seven English queens who challenged male power, the fierce reactions they provoked and whether the term 'she-wolves' was deserved.

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Inglaterra como deus a botou

Historian Diarmaid MacCulloch explores both what it means to be English and what has shaped English identity, from the Dark Ages, through the Reformation to modern times.  

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Pedra a pedra

 
Dan Cruickshank and Charlie Luxton uncover the incredible hidden stories behind historic buildings as they are dismantled brick by brick, and meticulously resurrected in new locations.

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Coñece *s roman*s

 Meet the Romans with Mary Beard is 2012 documentary written and presented by Mary Beard about the ordinary citizen of ancient Rome the world's first metropolis. 

Episode one: All Roads Lead to Rome 

Beard takes the Via Appia to cosmopolitan Rome to show the lives of the ordinary citizens in Imperial times who would be in the top seats of the Colosseum, take a boat to Rome's port Ostia importing goods from all over the Mediteranian and takes us into the bowels of Monte Testaccio. She features some extraordinary Romans such as Eurysaces, an eccentric baker, who made a fortune out of the grain trade and built his tomb in the shape of a giant bread oven, Pupius Amicus, the purple dye seller making imperial dye from shellfish imported from Tunisia, and Baricha, Zabda and Achiba, three prisoners of war who became Roman citizens. 

Episode two: Streetlife 

She descends into the city streets to discover the dirt, crime, sex and slum conditions in the world's first high-rise city where the poorer you were the higher you lived with little space, light, or sanitation. Rooms that were only slept in forced the poor to go outdoors into the city streets to eat, wash, get water and go to the lavatory. She looks at the Forum as a place of gamblers, dentists, thieves, prostitutes and rent boys. A huge wall separated the rich from the poor and their wooden tenaments that often caught fire with no proper fire service to put them out. At night the streets were a muggers paradise with no police force. Politicians who tried to provide social services were murdered lest they become too popular. 

Episode three: Behind Closed Doors 

Beard goes behind the cliched Roman marriage by looking at the thousands of tombstones of ordinary Romans, their children and slaves. The practice of child exposure when unwanted babies were left outside to die. Children that were wanted, half died by the age of ten. As soon as they were old enough they worked doing manual labour often from the age of five. Schooling for the few would be, boys only, learning to read and write, public speaking, and poetry. Many girls were married at the age of twelve. One tombstone was to a girl aged sixteen murdered by her husband. Childbirth was equally dangerous with the tools available at the time. Slaves were regarded as part of the family and used as sex slaves. Masters and Mistresses often married their freed slaves and other slaves were buried in the same tomb as their masters.  

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Quick!

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A meirande infamia dos últimos cinco séculos

"A pesar da longa loita na súa contra, o racismo aínda continúa contamiando as nosas mentes. A persistencia do seu poder fai que a moita xente se lle neguen oportunidades, xustiza ou dereitos humanos. Institucións clave permanecen racialmente monolíticas e os privilexios raciais continúan. Durante cinco séculos o racismo lexitimou asasinatos, masacres e xenocidios. A idea da supremacía branca demonizou, brutalizou e deshumanizou as poboacións non brancas do planeta. O racismo foi a forza global detrás do expolio de continentes, a destrucción de civilizacións e o exterminio de pobos enteiros. A herdanza da escravitude e dos imperios crearon a división fatal entre Occidente e o resto do mundo.
En termos científicos as diferencias raciais non teñen ningunha significación real. Aínda así o racismo continua a conformar destinos individuais e colectivos ao longo do mundo."

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Role model

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Confín dos verdes castros....

Tony Robinson and the Team visit a tiny windswept island off the coast of Wales. The only way to get to it is by rigging a 500-metre zip wire way above the wave-lashed rocks.
Incredibly, it seems that Gateholm Island in Pembrokeshire was once inhabited, but whether by Romans, Vikings, Celts or druids nobody knows. A handful of mysterious objects were found on the island years ago, including a rare Roman stone phallus and a beautiful bronze stag, suggesting that it may have been some sort of religious centre.
Of course, the Team have to dig for answers, but the weather's throwing everything it has at them. To make their task that bit tougher, they discover they also need to dig at a second site a quarter of a mile away. Although this one, thankfully, is on the mainland. Team leader Francis Pryor thinks it looks like what they're investigating is a classic Iron Age fort, with curved banks and ditches on one side and a sheer cliff on the other. If he's right, it should give Phil Harding and his diggers at least enough work to keep them busy for three days. And if he's wrong, there's no hiding place on this beautiful but bleak coast!

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Como cultivar un planeta

Professor Iain Stewart tells a stunning new story about our planet. He reveals how the greatest changes to the Earth have been driven, above all, by plants.

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Abellas, bolboretas e rebentos

Our bees and other pollinating insects are in crisis. It’s a complex problem that scientists the world over are trying to fathom, but the prognosis is grim - without healthy populations of insect pollinators across the world, our food security is under threat.

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Vello postmoderno

Ensíname o feio da Franza... pero non me fales ben da oas.

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Iemanjá... a Candelária

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Pugin

Augustus Northmore Welby Pugin is far from being a household name, yet he designed the iconic clock tower of Big Ben as well as much of the Palace of Westminster. The 19th century Gothic Revival that Pugin inspired, with its medieval influences and soaring church spires, established an image of Britain which still defines the nation. Presenter Richard Taylor charts Pugin's extraordinary life story and discovers how his work continues to influence Britain today.

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Etta James, 1938-2012

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