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Bringing the past to life
World Service,·94 episodes
The world's first public museum, built in 17th Century Oxford
03 Sep 1981,·15 mins
The canals bridges docks and roads of Thomas Telford, the "father of civil engineering"
15 Oct 1984,·24 mins
Tudor explorer and licensed pirate Martin Frobisher's quest for Arctic gold
01 Jan 1992,·29 mins
Why has London has become a global centre for stolen and looted classical antiquities?
01 Jan 1992,·28 mins
What killed the mummy? Manchester Museum investigate death in the classical world
The abandonment of the city of Mohenjodaro in 1700BC, is still a mystery
10 Jun 1992,·29 mins
The Ghandaran kingdom lasted from 1500-500BC. Will its remains survive modern looting?
18 Jun 1992,·28 mins
The discovery of the tomb in 1922 and the current attempts to preserve it
01 Jan 1993,·26 mins
Factories businesses and over a million tourists are taking their toll on Kathmandu
01 Mar 1993,·27 mins
The discovery of a 'monastic Pompeii' in the province of Isernia in central Italy
02 Apr 1993,·27 mins
The restoration of the temples in Angkor Cambodia, including the magnificent Angkor Wat
07 Apr 1993,·27 mins
How Irish authorities are cracking down on the black market by recruiting treasure hunters
19 Apr 1993,·27 mins
A 7th Century lyre from a ship burial at Sutton Hoo is reconstructed and played
27 Apr 1993,·27 mins
The Uluburun shipwreck sank in 1,400BC with enough bronze on board to equip a small army
19 Sep 1994,·28 mins
Hagia Sophia, one of the great buildings of the ancient world is painstakingly cleaned
12 Oct 1994,·28 mins
How was Petra's extraordinary rock-cut architecture achieved?
27 Oct 1994,·28 mins
Australia's first museum was established by early European settlers in 1827
04 Nov 1994,·28 mins
How a gorge in the heart of England's Shropshire became a Unesco World Heritage site
11 Nov 1994,·29 mins
Despite war revolution and occupation Prague remains one of Europe’s best preserved cities
16 Nov 1994,·28 mins
Vietnam's history is written in its monuments. But can they be protected from developers?
20 Apr 1995,·27 mins
The Suffolk nature reserve that was once a top secret military site
25 Apr 1995,·28 mins
How did the ancient city of Sana'a develop multi-storey buildings with geometric patterns?
02 May 1995,·28 mins
Ethopia's Christian heritage is an ancient one. But how many of their sites have survived?
09 May 1995,·28 mins
The new-found desire in Australia to preserve their colonial convict and industrial past
19 May 1995,·28 mins
Venice is sinking. Can concerned organisations from all over Europe hold back the tides?
26 May 1995,·27 mins
A maritime museum dedicated to preserving the heritage of the Zuiderzee region
20 Oct 1995,·28 mins
Moves to commemorate the Great Irish Famine which began in 1845
08 Nov 1995,·28 mins
From an island of fishermen to one of the world's first "tiger economies"
09 Nov 1995,·28 mins
Archeologists have discovered some strange things under and around London.
28 Nov 1995,·28 mins
The discovery of a Byzantine wreck in Tantura Lagoon once the ancient harbour of Tel Dor
04 Dec 1995,·28 mins
