The_Century_That_Made_Us

文化艺术类纪录片,BBC 频道 2006 年出品。

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/18thcentury/

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  • 英文片名 :The Century That Made Us
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  • 电视台 :BBC
  • 地区 :英国
  • 语言 :英语
  • 版本 :TV
  • 发行时间 :2006

The 18th century was a time of radical ideas and political change that opened the door to the modern world. In a wide-ranging season on BBC Four, we explore the excitement of a time when innovators blazed a trail in every area; from philosophy, science and art to cookery, fashion and architecture.

Andrew Marr looks at how a remarkable group of philosophers and scientists in 18th-century Edinburgh laid the foundations of the modern world.

A fresh look at the legacy of the Battle of Culloden and an exploration of the mythologies surrounding Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Duke of Cumberland.

The wickedly handsome James Purefoy stars in this drama about the notorious dandy Beau Brummell. Friend to royalty and incorrigible heartbreaker, he was acclaimed for his stylish dress sense.

Ben Woolley explores the public perception of science in the 18th century, as reflected in Joseph Wright of Derby’s painting An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump.

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Andrew Graham-Dixon charts the rise of British artists. He discusses their public image in the early 18th-century, when they were seen as destitute and incompetent, and the breakthroughs that finally made them a success and changed their lives forever. Includes profiles of William Hogarth, Joshua Reynolds and George Stubbs

Michael Wood tells the story of the country vicar whose book The Natural History of Selborne was an 18th-century bestseller, and had a huge influence on British attitudes towards nature.

Clarissa Dickson Wright presents a whirl through the eventful life and revolutionary recipes of Hannah Glasse.

Harris’s List of Covent Garden Ladies was a guide book of a sort that we would only expect to find on the internet today. Historian Hallie Rubenhold investigates a salacious publishing sensation.

See Nicholas Hytner’s acclaimed production of Mozart’s opera, live from Glyndebourne. According to the Independent, ‘Hytner’s period production marries elegance, farce, and psychological acuity.

During the 18th century the merchant class began to rival the aristocracy in the opulence of their houses and general standard of living. Dan Cruickshank examines the impact of this social change on architecture of the period.

Alexander McCall Smith heads to Edinburgh to get to the bottom of arguably the biggest literary hoodwink of the 18th century. Was James Macpherson a fraudster?

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Nicholas Clayton discusses the 18th-century craze for castrati, the opera music written for them and the biological realities of being a castrato.

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