Podcast appearances and mentions of Neil MacGregor

In episode four, Yusuf speaks with renowned leather teachers and makers, Valerie Michael and Neil MacGregor, revealing insights from 50 years of leatherworking; their relationship and history with the material; and their approach to teaching the next generation.More from Valerie and Neil: https://macgregorandmichael.com/This podcast was produced by the Leathersellers. The Leathersellers is a 600-year-old organisation in the City of London, originally established to protect and support leatherworkers and their trade, as well as those who had fallen on hard times. Today they are focused on enabling individuals and communities through their work with charities, fostering opportunity through education, and supporting a sustainable UK leather industry. Learn more about the Leathersellers.CreditsHost: Yusuf OsmanGuests: Valerie Michael and Neil MacGregorProducer: Curtis McGlincheySound: Rob OwenFilm: Ed Andrews Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, guest Dr Xavier Bray, director of the Wallace Collection, describes the surprise hit exhibition in London in 2000: Seeing Salvation, Image of Christ, at the National Gallery. He shares his memories of being an assistant (and very junior) curator of the show and explains why images of Christ still resonate and matter. He talks about the impact of art on us and suggests what sort of exhibition the world perhaps needs at this troubled time. Further Reading:The Image of Christ: The Catalogue of the Exhibition "Seeing Salvation" (National Gallery of London) by Gabriele Finaldi (2000-11-10)Seeing Salvation by Neil MacGregor and Erika Langmuir (2000) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Neil MacGregor, "Saksamaa. Ühe rahva mälestused". Postimehe kirjastus. Tutvustab Marek Strandberg. Saksamaa on 150 aastat olnud Mandri-Euroopa keskne võim. Üle kolme kümnendi tagasi sündis uus Saksa riik. Kui hästi me uut Saksamaad tegelikult mõistame ja kuidas mõistavad selle inimesed nüüd iseennast?

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Host Colbert Cannon sits down with Nicholas Gartside, Chief Investment Officer and member of the Board of Management at Munich RE. Nicholas breaks down what it was like to sit in an investing seat as the Head of Global Fixed Income at Schroder Investment Management during the global financial crisis in 2008. Then, we hear about Nicholas' transition to manage a €250 billion insurance portfolio at Munich RE. He shares how he maneuvers a multi-asset portfolio anchored heavily in long-duration fixed income assets through turbulent markets. And Nicholas lends his perspective on how Munich RE, as a member of the United Nations' Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance, is engaging meaningfully with companies to make ESG initiatives integral to corporate culture.  Learn more about Nicholas Gartside's tenure at Munich RE here. You can check out our guest's Best Idea, the novel A History of the World in 100 Objects by Neil MacGregor, here. Read the novel Munich by Robert Harris, Colbert's Best Idea for this week, here.

Shakespeare Anyone? is created and produced by Kourtney Smith and Elyse Sharp. Music is "Neverending Minute" by Sounds Like Sander. Follow us on Instagram at @shakespeareanyonepod for updates or visit our website at shakespeareanyone.com You can support the podcast at patreon.com/shakespeareanyone Works referenced: Folger Shakespeare. Living through the plague – excerpt: 'death by Shakespeare' by Kathryn Harkup. Shakespeare & Beyond, 5 May 2020, https://shakespeareandbeyond.folger.edu/2020/05/05/plague-death-by-shakespeare-kathryn-harkup-excerpt. Accessed 24 Jan 2023. Greenblatt, Stephen. What Shakespeare actually wrote about the plague. The New Yorker, https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/what-shakespeare-actually-wrote-about-the-plague. Accessed 24 Jan, 2023. Kobrak, Paul. Shakespeare's Restless World, performance by Neil MacGregor, et al., episode 17, BBC, 8 May 2012. Accessed 24 Jan. 2023. Newman, Kira L. S. “Shutt Up: Bubonic Plague and Quarantine in Early Modern England.” Journal of Social History, vol. 45, no. 3, 2012, pp. 809–34. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/41678910. Accessed 24 Jan. 2023. Shapiro, James. Ch. 14 Plague. In The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606. essay, Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2016, pp. 549-596. 

“The society we now live in has been, in large measure, accomplished by destroying the cultural heritage of previous generations at various moments.” Cultural heritage is made up of the monuments, works of art, and practices that a society uses to define and understand itself and its history. The question of exactly which monuments or practices should be considered cultural heritage evolves as the society changes how it views itself—and, perhaps more importantly, how it views its future. This slippery definition of heritage is at the core of many of the challenges preservationists and heritage professionals face today. In this episode, hosted by former Getty President Jim Cuno, Neil Macgregor and Kavita Singh discuss who gets to define cultural heritage and why that matters, using examples pulled from the French Revolution to contemporary Sri Lanka. Neil Macgregor is the former director of the National Gallery, London, the British Museum, and the Humboldt Forum in Berlin. Kavita Singh is professor at the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Macgregor and Singh are contributors to the recent publication Cultural Heritage and Mass Atrocities, edited by Jim Cuno and Thomas G. Weiss and available free of charge from Getty Publications. For images, transcripts, and more, visit https://blogs.getty.edu/iris/cultural-heritage-under-attack-who-defines-heritage/ or http://www.getty.edu/podcasts To read Cultural Heritage and Mass Atrocities, visit https://www.getty.edu/publications/cultural-heritage-mass-atrocities/

Neil MacGregor discusses the ethics of places of worship charging for entry

'Fascinating ... Phobias and manias create a magical space between us and the world' Malcolm Gaskill, author of the No 1 bestseller, The Ruin of All Witches 'A new book from Summerscale is always a treat ... Her sub-title might echo Neil MacGregor, but this reads more like a book by Oliver Sacks, with dashes of Roald Dahl' Spectator Our phobias and manias are contradictory and multiple: deeply intimate, yet forged by the times we live in. Discover how our fixations have taken shape, from the Middle Ages to the present day, as bestselling author Kate Summerscale deftly traces the threads between the past and present, the psychological and social, the personal and the political. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nuacht Mhall. Príomhscéalta na seachtaine, léite go mall. * Inniu an dara lá is fiche de mhí Dheireadh Fómhair. Is mise Liam Ó Brádaigh Ta aird idirnáisiúnta tarraingthe ag scannal caimiléireachta i saol an Rince Éireannaigh. Is é an Coimisiún le Rincí Gaelacha an eagraíocht rince Ghaelaigh is sine agus is mó le rá, ach d'éirigh beirt bhall sinsearach den Choimisiún as an eagraíocht ar an Déardaoin tar éis cruinniú a bheith ar siúl chun líomhaintí faoi chealgaireacht ag comórtais a phlé. Tháinig roinnt múinteoirí ar aghaidh le rá go raibh rún oscailte ann maidir le rigeáil na dtorthaí sna feiseanna. Dúirt urlabhraí ó Chumann Múinteoirí Mheiriceá Thuaidh gur bhain an chonspóid an bonn de mhuinín sa Rince Gaelach. Tá aoir osnádúrtha faoin mbeatha tar éis an bháis tar éis an Duais Booker 2022 a bhuachan. Insíonn ‘The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida' le Shehan Karunatilaka, scéal grianghrafadóra a dhúisíonn marbh lá amháin agus a dhéanann iarracht cumarsáid a dhéanamh ón taobh eile den uaigh faoi Chogadh Cathartha Shrí Lanca. Mhol an Príomhbhreitheamh, Neil MacGregor, scóip agus scála an úrscéil, agus é ag rá go raibh an cinneadh d'aon toil. Bhí an scríbhneoir Éireannach, Clare Keegan, ar an ngearrliosta don duais dá húrscéal ‘Small Things Like These'. Seachtain dhrámatúil eile a bhí ann i saol pholaitíocht na Breataine. Tráthnóna Déardaoin, d'fhógair Liz Truss go raibh sí le héirí as a ról mar Phríomh-Aire agus Ceannaire an Pháirtí Choimeádaigh tar éis sraith eachtraí náireacha. Níor chaith Truss ach daichead a ceathair lá sa phost; theip uirthí formhór a cuid polasaithe a chur i bhfeidhm agus b'éigean di a mionbhuiséad a thréigean tar éis shuaitheadh an mhargaidh agus brú óna páirtí féin. Tá tús curtha cheana féin le tuairimíocht faoina comharba ach caithfidh an té a roghnófar 100 vóta a fháil ar dtús chun dul isteach sa rás ceannaireachta. * Léirithe ag Conradh na Gaeilge i Londain. Tá an script ar fáil i d'aip phodchraolta. * GLUAIS scannal caimiléireachta - cheating scandal líomhaintí faoi chealgaireacht - allegations of deception rigeáil na dtorthaí - rigging of results aoir osnádúrtha - supernatural satire d'aon toil - unanimous sraith eachtraí náireacha - a series of embarrassing incidents comharba - successor

The live ceremony for the 2022 Booker Prize for Fiction, hosted by Samira Ahmed. The winner of the £50,000 prize will be announced by the chair of judges Neil MacGregor in the presence of Her Majesty The Queen Consort, who will award the trophy. The author Elif Shafak reflects on the recent violent attack on Sir Salman Rushdie, whose novel Midnight's Children was chosen as the Booker of Bookers. And the singer songwriter Dua Lipa gives her thoughts on the power of books. Photographer credit: John Williams Presenter: Samira Ahmed Producer: Sarah Johnson

Josie Lloyd chats to Robert Kirkwood about her books The Cancer Ladies Running Club, Come Together and her new book, Lifesaving for Beginners plus fresh from the Booker Shortlist announcement we hear from head judge Neil MacGregor.

The 2022 Booker Prize Short List was announced at 7pm on Tuesday 6 September 2022 at the Serpentine Pavilion, Kensington Gardens, central London and RNIB Connect Radio's Toby Davey was there to capture the atmosphere and the announcement of the short listed books by Booker Prize chair Of Judges, Neil MacGregor. Just before the announcement of the short list, Toby caught up with Neil MacGregor to find out a bit more about the 2022 long list and how he and the rest of the Judges whittled down the 13 books to the six short listed books, plus also a bit about some of the Authors and the six chosen book clubs who will be each given one of the six short listed books to read and discuss. The winner of the 2022 Booker Prize will be announced at a ceremony on 16 October 2022 at the Roundhouse in London. More details about the Booker Prize and the short listed books can be found by visiting the Booker Prize website - https://thebookerprizes.com/ (Image shows RNIB logo. 'RNIB' written in black capital letters over a white background and underlined with a bold pink line, with the words 'See differently' underneath)

Inspired this week by "A History of The World in 100 Objects" by Neil MacGregor, I've chosen five unusual jeweled objects from different eras to determine what they reveal about their particular time and place: the étui, the lorgnette, the minaudière, the gem-set lighter and the gold and diamond evening bag! A fascinating exploration into the world of precious objects!-----------website: https://www.neilmarrs.comemail: neil@neilmarrs.cominstagram: https://www.instagram.com/neilmarrs/linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/neilmarrs/

Der berühmteste Museumsdirektor unserer Tage präsentiert Einblicke in die Welt des bis heute berühmtesten Dramatikers. Anhand historischer Objekte erzählt Neil MacGregor fesselnde Theatergeschichte aus der Ära Shakespeares. Folge 6: Zeit des Wandels, Wandel der Zeit: Uhr mit Glockenspiel, Londons Rom Bögen, Die Pest und das Theater Mit freundlicher Genehmigung des C.H. Beck Verlags können wir die Sendung bis 03.05.2023 als kostenlosen Podcast anbieten.

In the final episode in our series looking at the way history was transformed in the Romantic period, Neil MacGregor joins Rosemary Hill to discuss the circulation of artefacts throughout Europe in the years after Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo, and the growth of public collections. They consider how the questions that museums grapple with today – concerning ownership, restitution and the role ordinary people should play in the stories they tell – were inherent in their creation in the 18th and 19th centuries.Buy Rosemary Hill's book, Time's Witness, from the London Review Bookshop here: https://lrb.me/hillSubscribe to the LRB and get 79% off the cover price plus a free tote bag: https://lrb.me/history See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Der berühmteste Museumsdirektor unserer Tage präsentiert Einblicke in die Welt des bis heute berühmtesten Dramatikers. Anhand historischer Objekte erzählt Neil MacGregor fesselnde Theatergeschichte aus der Ära Shakespeares. Folge 5: "Sex and the City": Kelchglas aus Venedig, Münzen aus Marokko, Englands Flaggen. Mit freundlicher Genehmigung des C.H. Beck Verlags können wir die Sendung bis 25.04.2023 als kostenlosen Podcast anbieten.

Der berühmteste Museumsdirektor unserer Tage präsentiert Einblicke in die Welt des bis heute berühmtesten Dramatikers. Anhand historischer Objekte erzählt Neil MacGregor fesselnde Theatergeschichte aus der Ära Shakespeares. Folge 4: "Neue Wissenschaft, alte Magie": Dr. Dees magischer Spiegel, Modell eines verzauberten Schiffes, Manual für Königsmörder. Mit freundlicher Genehmigung des C.H. Beck Verlags können wir die Sendung bis 18.04.2023 als kostenlosen Podcast anbieten.

Der berühmteste Museumsdirektor unserer Tage präsentiert Einblicke in die Welt des bis heute berühmtesten Dramatikers. Anhand historischer Objekte erzählt Neil MacGregor fesselnde Theatergeschichte aus der Ära Shakespeares. Folge 3: "Verkleidung und Verschwörung": Hausiererkoffer, Mützen für die Lehrlinge. Mit freundlicher Genehmigung des C.H. Beck Verlags können wir die Sendung bis 14.04.2023 als kostenlosen Podcast anbieten.

Der berühmteste Museumsdirektor unserer Tage präsentiert Einblicke in die Welt des bis heute berühmtesten Dramatikers. Anhand historischer Objekte erzählt Neil MacGregor fesselnde Theatergeschichte aus der Ära Shakespeares. Folge 2: "Statussymbole": großformatige Porträts, Stoßdegen, Dolche. Mit freundlicher Genehmigung des C.H. Beck Verlags können wir die Sendung bis 11.04.2023 als kostenlosen Podcast anbieten.

Der berühmteste Museumsdirektor unserer Tage präsentiert Einblicke in die Welt des bis heute berühmtesten Dramatikers. Anhand historischer Objekte erzählt Neil MacGregor fesselnde Theatergeschichte aus der Ära Shakespeares. Folge 1: "England erobert die Welt": Gedenkmedaille zu Sir Francis Drakes Weltumseglung, Stratford-Kelch, Eisengabel aus dem Rose Theatre. Mit freundlicher Genehmigung des C.H. Beck Verlags können wir die Sendung bis 04.04.2023 als kostenlosen Podcast anbieten.

Neil MacGregor talks to Matt Elton about his new BBC Radio 4 series, The Museums that Make Us, and the ways in which museums around the UK are adapting to a changing society – and shaping the future. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Mémoires d'une nation. En librairie le 4 février et sur https://www.lesbelleslettres.com/livre/9782251452265/allemagne. Neil MacGregor choisit objets et idées, hommes et lieux qui résonnent encore aux oreilles des Allemands d'aujourd'hui pour dresser le portrait passionnant d'une nation et d'un peuple.

Racial injustice in USA; ghost towns in post-industrial Scotland; how maritime history looks from the viewpoint of Aboriginal Australians and Parsis, Mauritians and Malays; the roots of violence that has plagued postcolonial society. These are topics covered in the books shortlisted for the British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding. Rana Mitter talks to the four authors who are: Cal Flynn for Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape Eddie S. Glaude Jr. for Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Today Mahmood Mamdani for Neither Settler nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities Sujit Sivasundaram for Waves Across the South: A New History of Revolution and Empire Producer: Ruth Watts Previously known as the Al Rodhan prize - you can find interviews with previous winners and shortlisted authors on the Free Thinking website. The winner in 2020 was Hazel V. Carby for Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands. Other previous winners include Toby Green, Kapka Kassabova, Neil MacGregor and Karen Armstrong.

As the Merkel era is drawing to a close, we take the occasion of the federal elections on September 26th to take a good look at three macroeconomic challenges facing Germany and the ramifications for the rest of Europe : Deglobalisation risk, the European economic integration process and Green transition If you enjoy listening to Alphaville and Scorpions, you will also enjoy this podcast. Guest: Evelyn Herrmann, Bank of America Recommendation: Series of podcasts "Germany: Memories of a Nation", by Neil MacGregor (director of the British Museum) For BBC Radio 4 link https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04dwbwz/episodes/downloads Credits: Alphaville - "Forever Young" / Scorpions - "Wind of Change" All the other podcasts: https://www.axa-im.com/macrocast Recorded on September 9th, produced by AXA IM

Tim Taylor meets Neil MacGregor, bestselling author and presenter of the wonderful 'A History of the World in 100 Objects', as featured on BBC Radio 4. Neil is no stranger to stunning artefacts, as former Director of both the British Museum and the National Gallery. Tim and Neil take a look at a series of intriguing historic objects, including some discovered by Time Team, as well as personal favourites from the British Museum's collection. These objects speak of the very fundamentals of humanity: our need for play and faith, our sense of identity, our aspirations of beauty, our struggle for survival, and the unfortunate inevitability of war. During his tenure at the British Museum, Neil oversaw new displays of the Sutton Hoo treasure, as featured in the recent Netflix film, 'The Dig', starring Ralph Fiennes and Carey Mulligan. Neil tells Tim what it was like to work with these incredible objects and their lasting appeal. You can watch the original video interview here.

Auf unserer letzten Expedition durch die Weltgeschichte reist Neil MacGregor nach Samarkand, begleitet den Transatlantiktrip eines Nashorns im Jahre 1515, staunt über eine Miniaturgaleone aus Augsburg - ein Luxusspielzeug der Renaissance, das sowohl den rasanten technischen Fortschritt als auch den Willen zur Eroberung der Weltmeere symbolisiert - und stellt ein Flugblatt zum Reformationsjubiläum vor, das die Macht des Buchdrucks und der Satire im 17. Jahrhundert bezeugt. Mit Neil MacGregor und Antonio Pellegrino.

Eine neue Weltreise mit Neil MacGregor: Im fünften Teil führt uns der Kunsthistoriker nach Nigeria und in den Pazifik. Als ein Messingkopf auf dem Gelände eines königlichen Palastes im afrikanischen Ife gefunden wurde, zwang dieses meisterhafte Kunstwerk die Europäer dazu, Afrikas Stellung in der Kulturgeschichte der Welt neu zu denken. "Hoa-haka-nana-ia" - so heißt der kolossale Monolith auf der fernen Osterinsel. Vor allem sein Rücken erzählt von ökologischen Veränderungen vor 1000 Jahren, verursacht durch die Menschen. Mit Hanns Zischler, Antonio Pellegrino und vielen anderen. Mit freundlicher Genehmigung des Verlags bis zum 15.5.2021 als kostenloser Podcast verfügbar.

Anne McElvoy, senior editor at The Economist and head of Economist Radio leads a conversation on the democratisation of culture. She is joined by Professor Sir Nasser David Khalili, globally-renowned scholar, collector and pioneer of cultural philanthropy and Neil MacGregor, art historian, writer, broadcaster, and former director of the National Gallery and the British Museum. In this ground-breaking conversation, they discuss how you make access to culture, in all its senses, available to as many people as possible; and explore the impact of digitisation and how it offers a new horizon for future generations. 

British Art Historian and former Director of the British Museum Neil MacGregor chats to Nihal about the new audiobook of ‘A History of the World in 100 Objects’.Neil has chosen 4 of those objects plus an entirely new one (object 101!) including a Jade Axe and an Akan Drum. He chats to Nihal about how their meaning can change over time #PenguinPodcast‘A History of the World in 100 objects’ is available to buy as an audiobook now - https://apple.co/3dfSbUb See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In seiner Geschichte der Welt in 100 Objekten beschreibt der britische Autor Neil MacGregor zwei kostbare Objekte mit Kultstatus: den Lothar-Kristall mit Szenen aus der Entführung von Susanna und den Hedwigsbecher, aus dem die Heilige Wasser trank, das sich in Wein verwandelte. Mit freundlicher Genehmigung des Verlags können wir diese Lesung bis zum 06.07.2021 anbieten.

Taking a few minutes away from recording Page One In Review episodes, Charles Adrian talks about a particular kind of convalescent literature.   More information and a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/.   “Unlike wizards, who like nothing better than a complicated hierarchy, witches don’t go in much for the structured approach to career progression. It’s up to each individual witch to take on a girl to hand the area over to when she dies. Witches are not by nature gregarious, at least with other witches, and they certainly don’t have leaders./Granny Weatherwax was the most highly-regarded of the leaders they didn’t have.” from Weird Sisters by Terry Pratchett.   You can read about Terry Pratchett’s Discworld Series on Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discworld   The first Page One In Review episode, which is Page One 157, was recorded on the 18th of March, 2020.   Ripley’s Game by Patricia Highsmith is discussed in Page One 76 and Page One 175, Germany by Neil MacGregor is discussed in Page One 177, The Cloudspotter’s Guide by Gavin Pretor-Pinney is discussed in Page One 27 and Page One 163, and Ghost Stories Of An Antiquary by M. R. James is discussed in Page One 36 and Page One 165.   Also mentioned in this episode is London: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd. Another book by Peter Ackroyd, Hawksmoor, is discussed in Page One 121.   And there are mentions of books by Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers and P. D. James, The Culture Series by Iain M. Banks and the Xenogenesis trilogy by Octavia E. Butler (of which Imago is the third book).   Other books by Terry Pratchett mentioned in this episode are The Colour Of Magic, Equal Rites, Mort, Reaper Man and Weird Sisters.   Episode image is a detail from the cover of Small Gods by Terry Pratchett, published in 1993 by Corgi Books; cover illustration by Josh Kirby.   Episode recorded: 9th September, 2020.     Book listing:   Small Gods by Terry Pratchett

The tribe of Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, having a Jamaican Welsh identity, the idea of freedom and anti-colonial resistance, the alarming rise of youth suicide among Indigenous people in Canada and how a group of pioneering cultural anthropologists – mostly women – shaped our interpretation of the modern world: these are the topics tackled in the shortlist for the 2020 prize for a book fostering global understanding. Rana Mitter talks to the authors. Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands by Hazel V. Carby Insurgent Empire – Anticolonial Resistance and British Dissent by Priyamvada Gopal Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power by Pekka Hämäläinen The Reinvention of Humanity: A Story of Race, Sex, Gender and the Discovery of Culture by Charles King All Our Relations: Indigenous trauma in the shadow of colonialism by Tanya Talaga The international book prize, worth £25,000, and run by the British Academy, rewards and celebrates the best works of non-fiction that have contributed to global cultural understanding, throwing new light on the interconnections and divisions shaping cultural identity worldwide. Over 100 submissions were received and the winner is announced on Tuesday 27 October. Producer: Karl Bos The winner in 2019 was Toby Green for A Fistful of Shells – West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution and other previous winners include Kapka Kassabova, Neil MacGregor and Karen Armstrong. You can find interviews with the winenrs and the other shortlisted authors for the 2019 prize (Ed Morales, Julian Baggini, Julia Lovell, Aanchal Malhotra and Kwame Anthony Appiah in this Free Thinking collection https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07p3nxh

Eleanor Wasserberg chats about 'The Light at the End of the Day' and being inspired by a painting. Neil MacGregor talks about the book version of his radio show ' A History of the World in 100 Objects' and how he also was inspired by art. (Starts at 22.25)   Narrator Ray Sawyer chats about narrating Alan Bennett. (34.04) We listen to a couple of books narrated by actors who were in Star Wars. (36.16) And as the Booker Prize approaches, we hear the books of last year's joint winner, Bernardine Evaristo (43.12)

A feather helmet, a credit card, a hand axe, a painting on silk "admonishing" Empress Jia. If that sounds like a scavenger hunt, it's because it is — and you can't beat the British Museum for scavenging. Join us as Brad dishes on A History of the World in 100 Objects, the 2010 podcast series and corresponding book by former BM director Neil MacGregor that access the Museum's extensive collections to tell the million-year story of our lives ... one object at a time. Also, Mike bashes iPhones and Long John Silver's.

In this podcast Mona Siddiqui speaks to the internationally-renowned art historian, Neil MacGregor. Born in Glasgow, Neil studied languages at Oxford but was drawn to art history. His glittering career includes directorships of both the National Gallery and the British Museum as well as presenter of several award-winning radio and television programmes including Living with the Gods. Here he speaks about how speaking a different language opens up new worlds, the special place of museums and art galleries in a nation’s life, how the UK has rewritten its history and the importance of humility.

In episode 1 of Quarantine Genius, we look at the effect of the plague on Shakespeare's life, work and legacy. The playwright/actor faced at least four outbreaks in his lifetime and his profession was continually disrupted by disease. In 1606, Shakespeare was lodging above a swanky hat-shop in London when plague struck yet again. This time, his lockdown schedule would lead him to write one of the greatest tragedies in the English language. (Written, produced and presented by Lucinda Smyth. Composed by and sound edited by Tom Chapman. Logo by Alice Konstam.) Donate to Black Ticket Project here: https://www.paypal.me/btproject. References: Charles Nicholl, Shakespeare The Lodger (2007); James Shapiro, 1606: Shakespeare and the Year of Lear (2015); Neil MacGregor's 'Shakespeare's Restless World' (BBC R4; ); Andrew Dickson 'Shakespeare in Lockdown' (Guardian, 2020); 'Broadway Shutdown could be Good for Theater' (Atlantic, 2020); Thomas Dekker, A Wonderful Yeare (1604); 'A Day in the Life of William Shakespeare' (BBC Teach); James Shapiro, 'How Shakespeare's Great Escape from the Plague Changed Theatre' (Guardian, 2015).

Chris and Rifa's Refigure Check-in continues our locked down adventures in culture, tech and diversity. This week we chat about the plethora of livestream performances during the quarantine period. Then we binge-watch the whole of season four of Korean-Canadian sitcom Kim's Convenience. In What You Reading For? Rifa is enjoying Ben Okri's latest short story collection Prayer For The Living and Chris takes a break from Hilary Mantel to dip into Neil MacGregor's compendium for the British Museum and BBC's epic radio series, A History of The World In 100 Objects. Thank you for listening. Please 'like' and subscribe and leave us a nice five star review. Please tell your friends. We don't have a marketing budget. You can also find us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

Since the Ice Age, humans have been using their imaginations to create objects of great artistry and skill, many of them destined for spiritual or religious functions.  Exploring the stories these objects tell and the shared narratives they reflect helps us to understand the nature of belief and the complex relationship between faith and society. … Continue reading "Belief, Ritual, and Society with Neil MacGregor"

In about 650 B.C. the Greek poet Archilochus wrote, “The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.”The renaissance scholar Erasmus quoted Archilochus in 1500 in his famous Adagia, saying, “Multa novit vulpes, verum echinus unum magnum.” In 1953, the philosopher Isaiah Berlin expanded on Archilochus and Erasmus in his often-quoted essay, The Hedgehog and the Fox. In 2017, University of Pennsylvania psychologist Philip Tetlock completed a 20-year study that contrasted the abilities of the one-big-thing “hedgehog” experts against the many-little-things “fox” non-experts to make accurate predictions about geopolitical events. Does it surprise you to learn that the “fox” non-experts outperformed the “hedgehog” experts by an overwhelming margin? What Tetlock discovered will help you tell the story of your company in a way that will cause customers to feel like they truly know you.American businesspeople tend to believe that every successful business is built on a single big idea, “one big thing.” But sadly, that bit of traditional wisdom is more tradition than wisdom. “One big thing” is hedgehog thinking. But foxes roam freely, listen carefully and consume omnivorously. Foxes know “many little things.” Customers will love the “many little things” story of your company told from the perspective of a fox. The story you need to be telling is the real one, a fascinating tale of hopes and dreams and failures and successes and realizations and refinements. Don't worry, we're going to help you write it. In 2011, the fox-like director of the British Museum, Neil MacGregor, used 100 objects in his museum as prisms through which he told the entire story of our world. That book, A History of the World in 100 Objects, became a wildly popular radio series and a blockbuster New York Times bestseller. The Wall Street Journal called it, “An enthralling and profoundly humane book that every civilized person should read.” The fascinating, riveting, highly-engaging story of your company is hidden in 10 objects that lie within your grasp.Bring those objects with you to Wizard Academy. It is time for “Show and Tell.” Dr. Richard D. Grant is a founding board member of Wizard Academy. Chris Maddock has been a Wizard of Ads writing instructor for 22 years. Tom Wanek is a Wizard of Ads partner with a particular talent for helping people discover wonderful stories that have been hiding in plain sight. These three masters will help you unleash the pivotal moments captured in your photographs, artifacts, and documents, and turn them into the fascinating story of your company's origin and evolution. This wonderful adventure through time and imagination https://www.wizardacademy.org/product/how-to-craft-the-story-of-your-company-november-5-6/ (will happen) November 5-6. We've only got room for 18 people. Roy H. Williams

Neil MacGregor visits different countries to talk to leading political, business and cultural figures to find out how they, as individuals and as members of their broader communities, see Britain. In India, Neil meets Gaj Singh, the former Maharaja of Jodhpur; Ram Narasimhan, proprietor of The Hindu Newspaper; professor Kavita Singh of Jawaharlal Nehru University; former Indian cricketer Sanjay Manjrekar; and the president of the Confederation of Indian Industry, Shobana Kamineni.

Neil MacGregor visits different countries to talk to leading political, business and cultural figures to find out how they, as individuals and as members of their broader communities, see Britain. In Canada, Neil hears from French-Canadian film director, Denys Arcand; writer and Booker Prize nominee, Madeleine Thien; and Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Chrystia Freeland.

Neil MacGregor visits different countries to talk to leading political, business and cultural figures to find out how they, as individuals and as members of their broader communities, see Britain. Neil visits Nigeria to meet Nobel Laureate for Literature, Wole Soyinka; Yeni Kuti, dancer, singer and eldest child of Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti; and Muhammadu Sanusi II, the Emir of Kano.

To mark 20 years of Front Row Kirsty Lang and John Wilson host a celebratory extended edition live from the Radio Theatre at Broadcasting House in London.Liz Carr, Bob Geldof, Lionel Shriver and Testament make their case for what they think is the most significant art work of the last 20 years.Neil MacGregor, the former director of the British Museum and familiar voice to Radio 4, considers cultural developments and diplomacy since 1998.There's a live performance from singer-songwriter Rae Morris. She'll join Caleb Femi, the Young People's Laureate for London, and Liv Little, founder and editor-in-chief of gal-dem - a magazine for young women of colour - to consider the scene for young emerging artists and to look ahead to what the next 20 years might bring. Kate Fox, our poet-in-residence for the day, writes a rapid-response poem.And Mary Beard pops in to tell us about the new series of Front Row Late which starts later tonight on BBC2. Presenters: Kirsty Lang and John Wilson Producers: Rebecca Armstrong and Hannah Robins.

Highlights from Front Row's Queer Icons project, presented by Alan Carr.With guests including Mary Portas, Olly Alexander, Christine and the Queens, Paris Lees, Maggi Hambling, Rebecca Root, A.Dot, Stella Duffy and the Oscar-winning writer of Moonlight, Tarell Alvin McCraney.Celebrating LGBTQ culture from the poetry of Sappho to the songs of Frank Ocean, we've asked guests to champion a piece of LGBTQ artwork that is special to them - one that has significance in their lives.Will Young picks the Joan Armatrading song that inspired him to come out; Christine and the Queens talks about Jean Genet's Our Lady Of The Flowers; and Sir Antony Sher reveals his regrets about not being out publicly when he starred in Harvey Fierstein's Torch Song Trilogy.For the full interviews head to Front Row's Queer Icons website, where you can hear Queer Icons from Neil MacGregor, Asifa Lahore, Colm Toibin, Tony Kushner, Emma Donoghue, Nicholas Hytner and many more.Presenter: Alan Carr Readers: Lorelei King and Simon Russell Beale Producer: Timothy Prosser.

Sofia Coppola discusses her new film The Beguiled starring Nicole Kidman, Kirsten Dunst and Colin Farrell. Described as a feminist remake of the Clint Eastwood version in 1971, Coppola explains her approach, why she decided to cut the black character Hallie, and teaching the cast of women to be Southern belles.For our Queer Icons series, museum director Neil MacGregor chooses The Warren Cup, a Roman goblet from the British Museum that depicts men making love. Design journalist Corrine Julius looks at the new exhibition about plywood at the Victoria and Albert Museum and discovers its surprising versatility and appeal.Plus Kirsty speaks to Kate Wakeling, winner of this year's CLiPPA prize for Children's poetry, about her debut collection Moon Juice. Presenter: Kirsty Lang Producer: Harry Parker.

What is it really like running a company with your spouse? Shabnam and Frank Weber and Caitlin and Neil MacGregor tell us about the unexpected dramas that happen when you hitch your personal and professional life together.

Crime writer and former newspaper editor Volker Kutscher's Babylon Berlin is being made into a TV series by Tom Tykwer. Neil MacGregor has now left the British Museum to work with the Humboldt Forum to create a new German cultural centre in Berlin. Simon Stephens has written a new translation of Brecht's Threepenny Opera for the National Theatre. The production will star Haydn Gwynne. Philippe Sands has written about the Nuremberg Trials - as has A.T. Williams. They join Anne McElvoy for a programme exploring diverse aspects of German culture. Neil MacGregor's book Germany: Memories of a Nation is now out in paperback. Threepenny Opera runs at the National Theatre from May 19th in rep through to September. Babylon Berlin by Volker Kutscher translated by Niall Sellar is out in English now. Philippe Sands is professor of law at University College London. His book East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes against Humanity is out now. He has also made a documentary film My Nazi Legacy: What Our Fathers Did A.T. Williams' book A Passing Fury: the story of the Nuremberg Trials is also out now Producer: Ruth Watts

Bette Midler discusses her new album of love songs, her concerts with Barry Manilow in the gay bath houses of New York, and cuts up rough when he describes her film Beaches as a 'weepie'.As Neil MacGregor bows out from his role as Director of the British Museum today after more than 13 years, in his final interview he discusses the Museum's last acquisition under his directorship. The Lampedusa Cross was made from the wreckage of a boat that sank off the coast of the small Italian island on 3rd October, 2013, while carrying refugees from Eritrea and Somalia with the loss of 350 lives. Neil MacGregor explains the importance of the artefact and reflects on his tenure at Britain's most-visited attraction.It's Christmas so it's time to tell ghost stories - this year on television Neil Spring's novel Harry Price: Ghost Hunter has been adapted for ITV, while the BBC's Dickensian draws on A Christmas Carol. Even Sherlock on New Year's Day will see him and Watson transported into their original Victorian setting for a ghoulish adventure. The writer Roger Clarke, author of A Natural History of Ghosts, has been contemplating where our fascination with ghosts comes from - as the winter equinox draws near.Today the last deep coal mine in Britain, Kellingley Colliery, in Yorkshire closed. The last tonne of coal cut from the seam will not be going to a power station but to the National Coal Mining Museum in Wakefield, where it will be displayed next to portraits of the pit's last miners by the photographer Anton Want. Andy Smith, mine manager and acting director at the museum, reflects on how the industrial revolution is ending in an art installation.Presenter John Wilson Producer Julian May.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss hell and its representation in literature and the visual arts, through the ages from Ancient Egypt to modern Christianity. Why do certain religions have a Satan figure and others don't? And why did hell shift from the underworld to here on earth in 20th Century representations?A fiery vault beneath the earth or as Sartre put it, other people - it seems our ideas of hell are inevitably shaped by religious and cultural forces. For Homer and Virgil it's a place you can visit and return from, often a wiser person for it. With Christianity it's a one way journey and a just punishment for a sinful, unrepentant life. Writers and painters like Dante and Hieronymus Bosch gave free rein to their imaginations, depicting a complex hierarchical world filled with the writhing bodies of tormented sinners. In the 20th century hell can be found on earth in portrayals of war and the Holocaust but also in the mind, particularly in the works of TS Eliot and Primo Levi. So what is the purpose of hell and why is it found mainly in religions concerned with salvation? Why has hell proved so inspirational for artists through the ages, perhaps more so than heaven? And why do some ideas of hell require a Satan figure while others don't?With Martin Palmer, Director of the International Consultancy on Religion, Education and Culture; Margaret Kean, Tutor and Fellow in English at St Hilda's College, Oxford; Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum.