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The Radio History of The World

Tracing the evolution of conflict, from early man to the atomic age

World Service,12 episodes

Episodes

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The Origins of Warfare
In a world with few humans there was little conflict. So what changed 30,000 years ago?
20 Nov 2001,13 mins
The City States That Became Greece
How military discipline underpinned the social fabric
21 Nov 2001,13 mins
The Romans, Torn Apart by Success
From insignificant city state to the ancient world's most formidable military power
22 Nov 2001,13 mins
Interesting Times: Ancient China
The quest for stability amid the ever-present threat of violence
23 Nov 2001,13 mins
The World's Most Successful Conqueror
Mongols mastermind Genghis Khan, who brought terror to the known world
24 Nov 2001,13 mins
The Crusades, the First Ideological War
How Pope Urban II sponsored war on Islam
26 Nov 2001,13 mins
Battle as Divine Judgment
How warfare affected the development of Europe in the Middle Ages
27 Nov 2001,15 mins
The Slave Trade
Europeans in Ghana began the slave trade more than 500 years ago
28 Nov 2001,13 mins
God and Gold: the Spanish in South America
The tragedy of Europe's first contact with the natives of America
29 Nov 2001,13 mins
India and the Coming of the British
How the Mughal age of conflict-avoidance came to an end
30 Nov 2001,13 mins
Total War
In the early 20th century, conflict came to involve not just armies but entire nations
01 Dec 2001,13 mins
War in the Nuclear Age
As the Second World War ended, the Cold War began
19 Dec 2001,13 mins