Luther and a Language for All Germans
Neil MacGregor continues his series with a week of programmes with a focus on the things which bind Germans together - ranging from the importance of the great German writer Goethe, and the significan...
6 Okt 201413min
Fragments of Power
Neil MacGregor discovers how coins reveal the range and diversity of the Holy Roman Empire, with around 200 different currencies struck in the different territories of Germany.It's an extraordinarily ...
3 Okt 201413min
Strasbourg - Floating City
Neil MacGregor visits Strasbourg, now in France, but also a city with a key place in German history, culture and precision engineering, as revealed by a model of the cathedral clock, now in the Britis...
2 Okt 201413min
Kafka, Kant and Lost Capitals
Continuing the week's theme of Germany's floating frontiers, Neil MacGregor visits two cities now beyond Germany's present borders, but which played important roles in Germany's intellectual and liter...
1 Okt 201413min
Divided Heaven
Neil MacGregor examines the story of the two Germanys, East and West, created in 1949, through objects including a wet suit used in an escape attempt from the East in 1987, which was later used as a t...
30 Sep 201413min
The View from the Gate
Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum, begins his series examining 600 years of German history through objects, with a reflection on Germany's floating frontiers.Twenty-five years after the f...
29 Sep 201413min
