In Our Time: A Companion to the Radio 4 series - Hardcover

 
9780340977507: In Our Time: A Companion to the Radio 4 series
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0340977507 ISBN 13: 9780340977507
Verlag: Hodder & Stoughton, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time series regularly enlightens and entertains substantial audiences on BBC Radio 4. For this book he has selected episodes which reflect the diversity of the radio programmes, and takes us on an amazing tour through the history of ideas, from philosophy, physics and history to religion, literature and biology. We can discover the reasons for the fall of the Byzantine empire, and why women were persecuted as witches in the seventeenth century. What happened in the peasants' revolt? What shape is the origin of life? Where does our calendar come from? We can unearth the influence of great Islamic thinkers, prime numbers, Socrates and Tectonic plates. Melvyn Bragg orchestrates the ideas of leading academics in each field so that the dynamic and lively discussion from the programmes comes through vividly on the page. In Our Time brings to life the signposts of history, the moments that significantly changed the world as we know it, and the individuals and ideas that made us what we are today.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Melvyn Bragg is a writer and broadcaster. His novels include The Hired Man, for which he won the Time/Life Silver Pen Award, Without a City Wall, winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, The Soldier's Return, winner of the WHSmith Literary Award, A Son of War and Crossing the Lines, both of which were longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, A Place in England, which was longlisted for the Lost Man Booker Prize, and most recently Grace and Mary. He has also written several works of non-fiction, the most recent being The Book of Books about the King James Bible. He lives in London and Cumbria.

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Verlag
Hodder & Stoughton
Erscheinungsdatum
2009
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0340977507
ISBN 13 
9780340977507
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
608
Herausgeber
Bragg Melvyn
Kontakt zum Hersteller
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