Neil Oliver: News, Interviews, History

In this episode we travel with Neil to ancient Egypt, to meet the people who made some of the wonders of the world possible and witness the moment a huge rock is slid into place, sealing the entrance to a magical tomb and keeping its secrets hidden for thousands of years.

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In this episode we travel with Neil to the ancient city of Babylon to witness a pivotal event in the development of civilization – the moment King Hammurabi lays down the law.

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In this first episode Neil sets out his stall for the brand-new series, giving us a glimpse into his family’s personal history and a passionate explanation of why he feels it’s vital for us all to try to understand the past.

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In this, the last episode of the series Neil brings together the people who live, work, visit, are fascinated by and like him have a of love of the British Isles. Listeners from all over the world share their thoughts and ask Neil pertinent and diverse questions – love, life, whiskey, history, and the human story.

Season 2, ‘A History of the World’ starts soon.

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In this episode Neil unties his walking boots and starts drawing the strands of history that run through the British Isles together.

This week’s show is a celebration of the incomers and blow-ins, the folk who have come to these islands & woven a rich tapestry. Sacred places, formidable fortresses, and landscapes of breath-taking beauty it’s a set of islands that have had an influence on the whole world. A place with a rich, complicated, and compelling history, a place Neil loves.

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In this episode Neil takes us to the breathtakingly beautiful shingle headland at Dungeness – a place loved by artists, photographers, pop stars and fans of this archipelago’s raw natural coastline.

On this windblown and storm-washed headland, that’s full of sky and sound, Neil explores the concept of how the land we grow up in becomes a part us – part of our actual physical being as well as our ‘souls’.

For Neil, Dungeness Headland is an ever-changing landscape with a fragile feel to it, which strikes a very personal chord and reminds him of the British Isles themselves

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Ep99 The Tower of London

In this episode we’re scaling the walls of one of the most famous fortresses in the whole of the British Isles – the Tower of London. Almost a thousand years old this beautifully kept Roya palace is now spic and span, and surrounded by the steel and glass of a thriving modern metropolis. But for centuries it was a place to dread. Packed to the rafters with history, this week Neil digs down to find the awful secrets that have been buried beneath the floorboards!

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In this episode Neil takes us to meet a great mind; a scientist whose work laid some of the foundations that have helped shape the world we live in. James Clerk Maxwell grew up surround by the soft rounded hills, lochs and handsome woodland in Dumfries and Galloway. From his country upbringing and a slow start at school he went on to dazzle on the scientific stage.

Einstein and the scientists that followed all pay tribute to the great beauty of Maxwell’s mathematics, his theorems, and the ground-breaking work he did showing that electricity, light and magnetism were all covered by the same fundamental and natural laws. Without him the world wouldn’t be as it is today.

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In this episode a wave of devolution sweeps across the United Kingdom creating assemblies in Northern Ireland and Wales and a new parliament in Scotland.

In 1999 as the balance of power across the whole of the British Isles starts to shift, the foundations are laid to cement a new age in Scotland. At the end of Edinburgh’s Royal Mile work begins on an ambitious building, which will herald Scotland’s move to devolution. Built with oak, sycamore, stainless steel and Caithness stone the finished design for Scotland’s new Parliament Building is celebrated, loved and loathed in equal measure.

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