This Sceptred Isle (111-120) (BBC Radio) torrent

THIS SCEPTRED ISLE 101-110 (BBC7 History) - radioarchive.cc

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6. The First British Empire: 1702-1760

111. 1-111 Jan 22 96 Robert Walpole, the First Prime Minister
112. 1-112 Jan 23 96 The New Hanoverians: Death, Gin and Daniel Defoe
113. 1-113 Jan 24 96 Monarchy, Cabinet and Dirty Taxes at the Crossroads
114. 1-114 Jan 25 96 George II and Turnip Townshend
115. 1-115 Jan 28 96 Queen Caroline and the Emergence of William Pitt
116. 1-116 Jan 29 96 A Bottled Ear, Grog and Rule Britannia
117. 1-117 Jan 30 96 Patronage and the Fall of Robert Walpole
118. 1-118 Jan 31 96 War, Pragmatism and the Final Charge of an English

Monarch
119. 1-119 Feb 1 96 Bonnie Prince Charlie, Culloden and God Save the King
120. 1-120 Feb 2 96 Hogarth, the Price of Gin and Pitt the Elder



From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This Sceptred Isle was created as a series of short 12-14 minute radio

programmes by the BBC for transmission daily on Radio 4 from 1995 about the

history of the lands and peoples of the British Isles. The producer was Pete

Atkin.

Starting in 55 BC with the arrival of Julius Caesar and initially concluding in

1901 with the death of Queen Victoria, the series was read by Anna Massey and

included extracts from the book A History of the English-speaking Peoples

written by Sir Winston Churchill, interwoven into Christopher Lee's main account

of the history. The extracts were read by Paul Eddington, who died during the

production and his role was taken by Peter Jeffrey. In total the series

contained 216 episodes, ran 29 hours, and was first broadcast in daily episodes

between June 1995 and June 1996.

The series was very successful, being broadcast twice each day in the morning

and late at night, and in 1999 the BBC extended the programme to cover the

twentieth century; picking up from where the first series had finished to the

end of the millennium. This new series was a total of 15.25 hours long and

although it used the same narrator, the quotations were read by Robert Powell.

The first episode of this new series was broadcast on August 30 1999 and the

final episode on December 31 1999.

In 2001 another shorter series entitled This Sceptred Isle: Dynasties was

produced. This told the stories of the powerful and influential families of

Britain's history, including the Godwines, the Despensers and the Churchills.

The series consisted of 10 episodes and was again narrated by Anna Massey.

Over the course of several months in 2005 and 2006 This Sceptred Isle: Empire a

90-part history of the British Empire was broadcast on Radio 4. Each part was

approximately 15 minutes long. The narrator was Juliet Stevenson and the cast of

readers of various historical documents--including poems, songs, personal

letters, and first-hand accounts--included Jack Davenport, Joss Ackland,

Christopher Eccleston, and Anna Massey among others.

The programme's title is a quotation from act 2 scene 1 of Shakespeare's King

Richard II, attributed to John of Gaunt: "This royal throne of kings, this

scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars ... This blessed plot,

this earth, this realm, this England".


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