HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXT (PODCASTS)
A HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN 100 OBJECTS (BBC AUDIO SERIES)
Director of the British Museum Neil MacGregor narrates 100 programs that retell humanity's history through the objects we have made. Descriptive texts and podcast transcripts available. Each podcast is 14 minutes.
Objects included are (in order below as given on website):
- Solar-powered lamp and charger
- Credit card
- Throne of Weapons
- Hockney's In the Dull Village
- Russian revolutionary plate
- Suffragette-defaced penny
- Sudanese slit drum
- Hokusai's The Great Wave
- Early Victorian tea set
- Ship's chronometer from HMS Beagle
- Jade bi
- Australian bark shield
- North American buckskin map
- Hawaiian feather helmet
- Akan drum
- Reformation centenary broadsheet
- Mexican codex map
- Shadow puppet of Bima
- Miniature of a Mughal prince
- Shi'a religious parade standard
- Pieces of eight
- Kakiemon elephants
- Double-headed serpent
- Benin plaque
- The mechanical galleon
- Durer's Rhinoceros
- Jade dragon cup
- Inca gold llama
- Ming banknote
- Tughra of Suleiman the Magnificent
- Hoa Hakananai'a Easter Island statue
- Statue of Huastec goddess
- Shiva and Parvati sculpture
- Icon of the Triumph of Orthodoxy
- Holy Thorn reliquary
- Taino ritual seat
- The David Vases
- Ife head
- Hebrew astrolabe
- Lewis chessmen
- Kilwa pot sherds
- Borobudur Buddha head
- Japanese bronze mirror
- Hedwig glass beaker
- Vale of York hoard
- Chinese Tang tomb figures
- Statue of Tara
- Lothair crystal
- Harem wall painting fragments
- Maya relief of royal blood-letting
- Silk princess painting
- Korean roof tile
- Moche warrior pot
- Sutton Hoo helmet
- Gold coins of Abd al-Malik
- Arabian bronze hand
- Hinton St Mary mosaic
- Silver plate showing Shapur II
- Gold coin of Kumaragupta I
- Seated Buddha from Gandhara
- Hoxne pepper pot
- Admonitions Scroll
- Ceremonial ballgame belt
- North American otter pipe
- Warren Cup
- Head of Augustus
- Chinese Han lacquer cup
- Rosetta Stone
- Pillar of Ashoka
- Head of Alexander
- Chinese bronze bell
- Olmec stone mask
- Basse Yutz flagons
- Parthenon sculpture
- Oxus chariot model
- Gold coin of Croesus
- Paracas textile fragment
- Chinese Zhou ritual vessel
- Sphinx of Taharqo
- Lachish reliefs
- Statue of Ramesses
- Mold gold cape
- Minoan bull leaper
- Rhind mathematical papyrus
- Flood tablet
- Early writing tablet
- Jade axe
- Indus seal
- Standard of Ur
- King Den's sandal label
- Jomon pot
- Maya maize god statue
- Egyptian clay model of cattle
- Ain Sakri lovers figurine
- Bird-shaped pestle
- Clovis spear point
- Swimming reindeer
- Olduvai handaxe
- Olduvai stone chopping tool
- Mummy of Hornedjitef
