A History of the World in five minutes and eight seconds
Post categories: #AHOW, British Museum, archaeology, history
13:56, Saturday, 23 October 2010
Here it is, the final summation. The whole series: every single object, from Olduvai stone chopping tool to Solar-powered lamp and charger, via Paracas textile and Hawaiian feather helmet. It's a delirious tour of the history of made things. Made itself, to cap the broadcast series, by a highly advanced group of human beings at Radio 4.
Remember you can download every episode to keep and you're welcome to add your own objects to the collection, which now contains thousands of objects and will be on display on the Radio 4 web site indefinitely. Visit the A History of the World blog for dozens of fascinating posts from behind the scenes by curators and producers.
Steve Bowbrick is editor of the Radio 4 blog
- Feedback, on Friday, ran an interesting 'audit' of AHOW, concluding, for instance, that the series generated "an unfair share of culture."
Comment number 1.
At 22:56 23rd Oct 2010, newlach wrote:I enjoyed "A History of the World in 5 Minutes" but it made me realise how much of Neil MacGregor's great series I have forgotten!
Mr MacGregor's descriptions of the objects were superb, and I found looking at the objects online after listening to the broadcasts a sometimes essential, but always enhancing, experience.
The phrase "an unfair share of culture" is most peculiar. Any auditor offered this by way of explanation would seek clarity.
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