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Write-up1 (as at 09/05/2025 01:17:46): BBC: Miscellaneous iPlayer and Podcasts

Introduction
BBC List
  1. BBC: Ancient Apocalypse - Death on the Nile
  2. BBC: Ancient Apocalypse - Mystery of the Minoans
  3. BBC: Ancient Apocalypse - Sodom and Gomorrah
  4. BBC: Ancient Apocalypse - The Maya Collapse
  5. BBC: Caligula with Mary Beard
  6. BBC: Chess Masters: The Endgame
  7. BBC: Dan Snow's History List - A History of Auschwitz
  8. BBC: Dan Snow's History List - Charlemagne
  9. BBC: Dan Snow's History List - Francis Drake (Part 1)
  10. BBC: Dan Snow's History List - Francis Drake (Part 2)
  11. BBC: Dan Snow's History List - Germany After Hitler
  12. BBC: Dan Snow's History List - Gladiators: 1. The Colosseum
  13. BBC: Dan Snow's History List - Gladiators: 2. Myths vs Reality
  14. BBC: Dan Snow's History List - Great Fire of London
  15. BBC: Dan Snow's History List - How to Survive a Medieval Crusade
  16. BBC: Dan Snow's History List - Josef Mengele
  17. BBC: Dan Snow's History List - Machu Picchu: 1. The 'Lost' City
  18. BBC: Dan Snow's History List - Machu Picchu: 2. The Rise of the Inca Empire
  19. BBC: Dan Snow's History List - Machu Picchu: 3. The Fall of the Inca Empire
  20. BBC: Dan Snow's History List - Rise & Fall of The Moors in Muslim Spain
  21. BBC: Dan Snow's History List - Rome's Greatest Humiliation: Roman Empire vs Germanic Tribes
  22. BBC: Dan Snow's History List - Rudolf Hoss: The Commandant of Auschwitz
  23. BBC: Dan Snow's History List - The Battle of the Bulge
  24. BBC: Dan Snow's History List - The Death of Hitler
  25. BBC: Dan Snow's History List - The Einstein Murders
  26. BBC: Dan Snow's History List - The English Civil War: Rising Tensions
  27. BBC: Dan Snow's History List - The English Civil War: Roundheads vs Cavaliers
  28. BBC: Dan Snow's History List - The Liberation of Bergen-Belsen
  29. BBC: Dan Snow's History List - The Origins of Istanbul
  30. BBC: Dan Snow's History List - The Red Army Surrounds Berlin
  31. BBC: Dan Snow's History List - The Samurai
  32. BBC: Dan Snow's History List - The Siege of Malta: Knights Hospitaller vs The Ottomans
  33. BBC: Dan Snow's History List - Vasco da Gama and the Rise of the Portuguese Empire
  34. BBC: Dan Snow's History List - Why Do Humans Wage War?
  35. BBC: Dan Snow's History List - Why Isn't Canada the 51st State?
  36. BBC: Dan Snow's History List - WWII - The Leaders: Churchill
  37. BBC: Dan Snow's History List - WWII - The Leaders: Hirohito
  38. BBC: Dan Snow's History List - WWII - The Leaders: Hitler
  39. BBC: Dan Snow's History List - WWII - The Leaders: Mussolini
  40. BBC: Dan Snow's History List - WWII - The Leaders: Roosevelt
  41. BBC: Dan Snow's History List - WWII - The Leaders: Stalin
  42. BBC: Easter Island Origins
  43. BBC: Lucy Worsley - British History's Biggest Fibs - Series 1:1 - The Wars of the Roses
  44. BBC: Lucy Worsley - British History's Biggest Fibs - Series 1:2 - The Glorious Revolution
  45. BBC: Lucy Worsley - British History's Biggest Fibs - Series 1:3 - The Jewel in the Crown
  46. BBC: Lucy Worsley - Empire of the Tsars - Romanov Russia
  47. BBC: Lucy Worsley - Royal History's Biggest Fibs - Series 1:1 - The Reformation
  48. BBC: Lucy Worsley - Royal History's Biggest Fibs - Series 1:2 - The Spanish Armada
  49. BBC: Lucy Worsley - Royal History's Biggest Fibs - Series 1:3 - Queen Ann and the Union
  50. BBC: Lucy Worsley - Royal History's Biggest Fibs - Series 2:1 - The French Revolution
  51. BBC: Lucy Worsley - Royal History's Biggest Fibs - Series 2:2 - George IV and the Regency
  52. BBC: Lucy Worsley - Royal History's Biggest Fibs - Series 2:3 - The Russian Revolution
  53. BBC: Lucy Worsley - Six Wives
  54. BBC: Lucy Worsley - The First Georgians: The German Kings who made Britain - Episode 1
  55. BBC: Lucy Worsley - The First Georgians: The German Kings who made Britain - Episode 2
  56. BBC: Lucy Worsley - The First Georgians: The German Kings who made Britain - Episode 3
  57. BBC: Lucy Worsley Investigates - 1066
  58. BBC: Lucy Worsley Investigates - Bloody Mary
  59. BBC: Lucy Worsley Investigates - Jack the Ripper
  60. BBC: Lucy Worsley Investigates - Princes in the Tower
  61. BBC: Lucy Worsley Investigates - The Black Death
  62. BBC: Lucy Worsley Investigates - The Gunpowder Plot
  63. BBC: Mary Beard - Julius Caesar Revealed
  64. BBC: Mary Beard - Meet the Roman Emperor
  65. BBC: Mary Beard - Meet the Romans - 1. All Roads Lead to Rome
  66. BBC: Mary Beard - Meet the Romans - 2. Streetlife
  67. BBC: Mary Beard - Meet the Romans - 3. Behind Closed Doors
  68. BBC: Mary Beard - Ultimate Rome - Empire Without Limit - Episode 1
  69. BBC: Mary Beard - Ultimate Rome - Empire Without Limit - Episode 2
  70. BBC: Mary Beard - Ultimate Rome - Empire Without Limit - Episode 3
  71. BBC: Mary Beard - Ultimate Rome - Empire Without Limit - Episode 4
  72. BBC: Michael Scott + Alexander Armstrong - Rome's Invisible City
  73. BBC: Montefiori - Rome: A History of the Eternal City - City of the Sacred
  74. BBC: Montefiori - Rome: A History of the Eternal City - Divine Gamble
  75. BBC: Montefiori - Rome: A History of the Eternal City - Rebirth of God's City
  76. BBC: Mozart: Rise of a Genius
  77. BBC: Pompeii - The New Dig
  78. BBC: R4 - Human Intelligence - Collectors - Charles Darwin
  79. BBC: R4 - Human Intelligence - Collectors - Denis Diderot
  80. BBC: R4 - Human Intelligence - Collectors - Pamphila
  81. BBC: R4 - Human Intelligence - Collectors - Samuel Johnson
  82. BBC: R4 - Human Intelligence - Collectors - Sei Shōnagon
  83. BBC: R4 - Human Intelligence - Disruptors - George Washington
  84. BBC: R4 - Human Intelligence - Disruptors - Malcolm X
  85. BBC: R4 - Human Intelligence - Disruptors - Martin Luther
  86. BBC: R4 - Human Intelligence - Disruptors - Mary Wollstoncraft
  87. BBC: R4 - Human Intelligence - Disruptors - Socrates
  88. BBC: R4 - Human Intelligence - Educators - Diogenes the Cynic
  89. BBC: R4 - Human Intelligence - Educators - Maimonides
  90. BBC: R4 - Human Intelligence - Educators - Mary Somerville
  91. BBC: R4 - Human Intelligence - Educators - Michael Faraday
  92. BBC: R4 - Human Intelligence - Educators - Peter Ramus
  93. BBC: R4 - Human Intelligence - Manhattan Project - Albert Einstein
  94. BBC: R4 - Human Intelligence - Manhattan Project - J Robert Oppenheimer
  95. BBC: R4 - Human Intelligence - Manhattan Project - John von Neumann
  96. BBC: R4 - Human Intelligence - Manhattan Project - Lise Meitner
  97. BBC: R4 - Human Intelligence - Manhattan Project - Niels Bohr
  98. BBC: R4 - Human Intelligence - Travellers - Aristotle
  99. BBC: R4 - Human Intelligence - Travellers - Ida Pfeiffer
  100. BBC: R4 - Human Intelligence - Travellers - Jean Rhys
  101. BBC: R4 - Human Intelligence - Travellers - Sir Patrick Manson
  102. BBC: R4 - Human Intelligence - Travellers - The Buddha
  103. BBC: Richard Miles - Ancient Worlds: 1. Come together
  104. BBC: Richard Miles - Ancient Worlds: 2. The Age of Iron
  105. BBC: Richard Miles - Ancient Worlds: 3. The Greek Thing
  106. BBC: Richard Miles - Ancient Worlds: 4. Return of the King
  107. BBC: Richard Miles - Ancient Worlds: 5. The Republic of Virtue
  108. BBC: Richard Miles - Ancient Worlds: 6. City of Man, City of God
  109. BBC: Richard Miles - Archaeology - A Secret History: 1. In the Beginning
  110. BBC: Richard Miles - Archaeology - A Secret History: 2. The Search for Civilisation
  111. BBC: Richard Miles - Archaeology - A Secret History: 3. The Power of the Past
  112. BBC: Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius
  113. BBC: Simon Schama's Shakespeare
  114. BBC: The Black Pharaohs
  115. BBC: The Boleyns: A Scandalous Family
  116. BBC: The Latest Secrets of Hieroglyphs

'Others' List
  1. Howtown: The real danger of alcohol
  2. Veritasium: What Game Theory Reveals About Life, The Universe, and Everything
  3. Veritasium: The Man Who Took LSD and Changed The World
  4. Veritasium: The Oldest Unsolved Problem in Math - Do odd perfect numbers exist?

Summaries and Comments
  1. Unfortunately, I’ve started this Note with a huge backlog, and I may never catch up! Also, I can’t now remember much of some of these episodes.
  2. BBC: Ancient Apocalypse - Death on the Nile (BBC2: Thu 26 Jul 2001)
    • BBC Blurb. Professor Fekri Hassan attempts to determine why the Egyptian Old Kingdom, the civilisation of the great pyramids, collapsed around 2200 BC. Can science show that terrible forces of nature were to blame - even driving people to cannibalism? Clues come from the remote deserts of southern Egypt, the glaciers of Iceland and a dramatic and unique archaeological find in the Nile delta.
    • Notes: I found the idea of a climate catastrophe – given Egypt’s dependence on the Nile – to be persuasive, but would have liked to know what the cause of the said catastrophe was.
  3. … to be continued


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