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Neil MacGregor explores the role and expression of shared beliefs in communities around the world. Produced in partnership with the British Museum.
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English
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30 episodes
since Oct. 23, 2017
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Neil MacGregor concludes his series on how shared beliefs have shaped societies.
He began with the Lion Man, an object created 40 000 years ago, and now reflects on the present, on the future and on hope.
Producer Paul Kobrak
The series is produced in partnership with the British Museum, with…
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Neil MacGregor continues his series on shared beliefs with a look at the attempts of some faiths to establish a state of their own.
An over-printed coin from 2nd century Jerusalem tells of the failed attempt of Shimon bar Kokhba to lay claim to a state for the Jews, free from Roman rule - while a …
Neil MacGregor continues his series on shared beliefs with a focus on those faiths seen as a threat to the state.
A plain board, to be found on a 17th-century Japanese roadside, offers generous rewards to anyone who informs on Christians. At almost exactly the same time a print from France depicts…
Neil MacGregor focuses on societies which aimed to live without religious beliefs.
Neil examines a revolutionary clock, from around 1795, created in the wake of the French Revolution, and designed to mark a new way of living: in an age of reason, there would no longer be royalism or religion in F…
Neil MacGregor continues his series on shared beliefs with a focus on earthly rulers and the gods.
Queens and kings may be priests of the gods, or their representatives. They may be incarnations - or even gods themselves. Or the relationship may be so close that to divide spiritual from temporal …
Neil MacGregor continues his series about the expression of shared beliefs with a focus on how faiths co-exist in India.
Producer Paul Kobrak
Produced in partnership with the British Museum
Photograph (c) The Trustees of the British Museum.
Neil MacGregor continues his series about the expression of shared beliefs with a focus on gods can reach new communities, and how those communities can then adapt and change the faiths.
Producer Paul Kobrak
Produced in partnership with the British Museum
Photograph (c) The Trustees of the Briti…
Neil MacGregor continues his series about the expression of shared beliefs with a focus on societies who believe that they share the landscape with co-inhabitants who are not visible but are present. Such belief systems can be found in places such as the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu.
It is di…
Neil MacGregor's series on the role and expression of beliefs continues with a focus on societies and faiths with a single god.
Using objects from both ancient Babylon and ancient Egypt, Neil examines how one god could become central to worship in these societies.
Producer Paul Kobrak
Produc…
Neil MacGregor's series on the role and expression of beliefs continues with a focus on societies living with many gods.
In the mid-1840s, a Roman earthenware jar was dug from the earth near Felmingham Hall in Norfolk. Inside, excavators found several belief systems, all mixed up together - for b…
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