This Sceptred Isle(a Titles & Air Dates Guide)
by tvcom_contribLast updated: |
|||
aired from: Jun 1995 to: Jun 1996 |
216 eps | BBC Radio 4 (UK) | 15 min |
Original Episode # Air Date Titles _____ _______ ___________ ______________________________________________ 1st Series 1995 Julius Caesar to William the Conqueror: 55BC-1087 1. 1- 1 Jun 5 95 Land of the Druids 2. 1- 2 Jun 6 95 The Invasion 3. 1- 3 Jun 7 95 Caractacus, the First Sung Hero 4. 1- 4 Jun 8 95 Liberty or Death 5 1- 5 Jun 9 95 Life in Roman Britain 6. 1- 6 Jun 12 95 The Crumbling Legacy 7. 1- 7 Jun 13 95 Camelot 8. 1- 8 Jun 14 95 Who Are the English? 9. 1- 9 Jun 15 95 The Arrogant Saint 10. 1-10 Jun 16 95 Edwin to Whitby 11. 1-11 Jun 19 95 Ethelbald and HJis Woman; Offa and His Dyke 12. 1-12 Jun 20 95 The Vikings 13. 1-13 Jun 21 95 Alfred the Great 14. 1-14 Jun 22 95 The Death of Alfred 15. 1-15 Jun 23 95 Athelstan, the First Soverign 16. 1-16 Jun 26 95 The Saintly Dunstan to the Canny Canute 17. 1-17 Jun 27 95 Cnut and Edmund Ironside 18. 1-18 Jun 28 95 Goodwine the Cunning and Edward the Confessor 19. 1-19 Jun 29 95 The Battle of Stamford Bridge 20. 1-20 Jun 30 95 The Battle of Hastings 21. 1-21 Jul 3 95 The Conquest 22. 1-22 Jul 4 95 Domesday 23. 1-23 Jul 5 95 Death of the Conqueror The Making of a Nation: 1087-1327 24. 1-24 Jul 6 95 William Rufus and the First Crusade 25. 1-25 Jul 7 95 Henry and the Scottish Kings 26. 1-26 Jul 10 95 Justice, Power and the Death of Henry 27. 1-27 Jul 11 95 Anarchy 28. 1-28 Jul 12 95 Henry Plantagenet 29. 1-29 Jul 13 95 The Law, the Church and the Coming Tragedy 30. 1-30 Jul 14 95 Becket 31. 1-31 Sep 4 95 Murder in the Cathedral 32. 1-32 Sep 5 95 Pennance, Rebellion and Ireland 33. 1-33 Sep 6 95 Coeur de Lion 34. 1-34 Sep 7 95 Third Crusade and Death of the Lionheart 35. 1-35 Sep 8 95 Bad King John and the Loss of Normandy 36. 1-36 Sep 11 95 Magna Carta 37. 1-37 Sep 12 95 The Baron's War 38. 1-38 Sep 13 95 Henry III 39. 1-39 Sep 14 95 Simon De Montfort 40. 1-40 Sep 15 95 A Day in the Life of 13th Century England 41. 1-41 Sep 18 95 Chancery, Treasury and a 13th Century Wedding Brawl 42. 1-42 Sep 19 95 The Welsh Laws and the Most-Feared Weapon 43. 1-43 Sep 20 95 From the Maid of Norway to Robert the Bruce 44. 1-44 Sep 21 95 The King's Favourite and Bannockburn 45. 1-45 Sep 22 95 The Ghastly Execution The Black Prince to Henry VIII: 1327-1547 46. 1-46 Sep 25 95 Isabella and Mortimer 47. 1-47 Sep 26 95 Edward III and the Start of the Hundred Years War 48. 1-48 Sep 27 95 Crécy, Calais and the Garter 49. 1-49 Sep 28 95 The Black Death 50. 1-50 Sep 29 95 The Black Prince and the Death of Edward III 51. 1-51 Oct 2 95 Richard II, Wat Tyler and the Peasants' Revolt 52. 1-52 Oct 3 95 Lancaster and Bolingbroke 53. 1-53 Oct 4 95 Henry IV, Hotspur and the Stake 54. 1-54 Oct 5 95 Henry V and Agincourt 55. 1-55 Oct 6 95 Henry VI, Joan of Arc and Another Road to War 56. 1-56 Oct 9 95 The War of the Roses 57. 1-57 Oct 10 95 Richard III, the Princes in the Tower and Bosworth 58. 1-58 Oct 11 95 The First Tudor King 59. 1-59 Oct 12 95 Henry VIII, Flodden and Wolsey 60. 1-60 Oct 13 95 Erasmus, Anne Boleyn and the Death of Wolsey 61. 1-61 Oct 16 95 The End of the Monasteries and Little Jack Horner 62. 1-62 Oct 17 95 The Auld Alliance and the Death of Henry VIII Elizabeth I to Cromwell: 1547-1660 63. 1-63 Oct 18 95 A Decade of Rebellion 64. 1-64 Oct 19 95 Bloody Mary and the Burning of Cranmer 65. 1-65 Oct 20 95 The Elizabethans 66. 1-66 Oct 30 95 The Spinster, the Hapsburg and the Scottish Widow 67. 1-67 Oct 31 95 Trading, Slaving, Piracy and the Spanish Armada 68. 1-68 Nov 1 95 Essex, Ireland and Sturdy Beggar 69. 1-69 Nov 2 95 How a King of Scots Became King of England 70. 1-70 Nov 3 95 A Damp Squib, a Bible and Widow Thirkettle 71. 1-71 Nov 6 95 The Death of Raleigh and the First King of Great Britain 72. 1-72 Nov 7 95 Charles I and the Right of a Gentleman 73. 1-73 Nov 8 95 The Scottish Revolt and the Seeds of Civil War 74. 1-74 Nov 9 95 The King's on the Run 75. 1-75 Nov 10 95 The Civil War Begins 76. 1-76 Nov 13 95 The Rise and Rise of Oliver Cromwell 77. 1-77 Nov 14 95 The First Redcoat and the Battle of Naseby 78. 1-78 Nov 15 95 The Execution of Charles I 79. 1-79 Nov 16 95 The Republic of England 80. 1-80 Nov 17 95 The Lord Protector 81. 1-81 Nov 20 95 The Rise and Rise of Oliver Cromwell 82. 1-82 Nov 21 95 The First Redcoats and the Battle of Naseby Restoration and Glorious Revolution: 1660-1702 83. 1-83 Nov 22 95 Charles II and the Return of the Monarchy 84. 1-84 Nov 23 95 The Cavalier Parliament 85. 1-85 Nov 24 95 The First Political Parties 86. 1-86 Nov 27 95 The Great Plague and the Great Fire 87. 1-87 Nov 28 95 Unholy Trinity Church, Law and Medicine 88. 1-88 Nov 29 95 The First Winston Churchill 89. 1-89 Nov 30 95 Paradise Lost to Pilgrim's Progress 90. 1-90 Dec 1 95 The Death of Charles II 91. 1-91 Dec 4 95 James II and the Monmouth Rebellion 92. 1-92 Dec 5 95 Judge Jeffries 93. 1-93 Dec 6 95 The 1688 Revolution 94. 1-94 Dec 7 95 William of Orange 95. 1-95 Dec 8 95 Return to War 96. 1-96 Dec 11 95 The Kingdom of William and Mary 97. 1-97 Dec 12 95 The Origin of the Jacobites 98. 1-98 Dec 13 95 The Battle of the Boyne 99. 1-99 Dec 14 95 War in Europe 100. 1-100 Dec 15 95 The Death of King Billy and the Coming of Queen Anne 101. 1-101 Jan 8 96 Highwaymen, The Rise of Marlborough and War with Spain The First British Empire: 1702-1760 102. 1-102 Jan 9 96 1702: A New Queen and Why Britain Must Go to War 103. 1-103 Jan 10 96 The Battle of Blenheim 104. 1-104 Jan 11 96 Union with Scotland 105. 1-105 Jan 12 96 England Loses an Admiral and the Future's in Hot Chocolate 106. 1-106 Jan 15 96 Fruitless Carnage and the End of Marlborough's Reign 107. 1-107 Jan 16 96 The End of the War with France and Marlborough Accused 108. 1-108 Jan 17 96 The King of England Who Couldn't Speak English 109. 1-109 Jan 18 96 The Hanoverians and the Jacobite Rising 110. 1-110 Jan 19 96 The Damning of the MacGregors and the South Sea Bubble 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 121. 1-121 Feb 5 96 The Treaty of Seren and Potent Kings and Roast Beef and Plum Pudding 122. 1-122 Feb 6 96 Clive of India 123. 1-123 Feb 7 96 Death of a Prime Minister, the Sacking of Pitt and the New Calendar 124. 1-124 Feb 8 96 The Black Holle of Calcutta, Minorca and the Seven Years' War 125. 1-125 Feb 9 96 Pitt's Militia, a Plan to Invade Canada and the Act of Marriage 126. 1-126 Feb 12 96 1757, the First World War 127. 1-127 Feb 13 96 India an the Death of George II 128. 1-128 Feb 15 96 The End of Pitt the Elder and the First Canal The Age of Revolutions: 1760-1792 129. 1-129 Feb 16 96 The End of the Seven Years War 130. 1-130 Feb 26 96 Grenville as Prime Minister and How Boswell Met Johnson 131. 1-131 Feb 27 96 Infant Poverty and the North Briton 132. 1-132 Feb 28 96 Rockingham, The Stamp Act, Hargreaves and Jenny 133. 1-133 Feb 29 96 Goldsmith and Sterne and 18th-Century Letters 134. 1-134 Mar 1 96 Edinburgh New Town 135. 1-135 Mar 4 96 Captian Cook 136. 1-136 Mar 5 96 Window Taxes and Highway Robbery 137. 1-137 Mar 6 96 Watt and Arkwright and the Industrial Revolution 138. 1-138 Mar 7 96 Lord North and the Boston Massacre 139. 1-139 Mar 8 96 Warren Hastings and Who Owns India? 140. 1-140 Mar 12 96 The Boston Tea Party and the Beginning of the American Revolution 141. 1-141 Mar 15 96 The War of American Independence 142. 1-142 Mar 18 96 Jefferson and the Fourth of July 143. 1-143 Mar 19 96 Saratoga 144. 1-144 Mar 20 96 Yorktown 145. 1-145 Mar 21 96 The End of Lord North 146. 1-146 Mar 22 96 The Irish Victims of the American Revolution 147. 1-147 Mar 25 96 The First Madness of King George 148. 1-148 Mar 26 96 The French Revolution and Tom Paine's Rights of Man Nelson, Wellington and Napoleon: 1792-1815 149. 1-149 Mar 27 96 Britain Once More at War with France 150. 1-150 Mar 28 96 Mutiny on the Royal Navy 151. 1-151 Mar 29 96 Nelson, the Nile and the First Income Tax 152. 1-152 Apr 1 96 The Irish Rebellion and Union 153. 1-153 Apr 2 96 Pitt Goes and Nelson Turns a Blind Eye 154. 1-154 Apr 3 96 Prime Minister in Exile 155. 1-155 Apr 4 96 Trafalgar 156. 1-156 Apr 5 96 At War with Napoleon 157. 1-157 Apr 8 96 The Ministry of All the Talents and the Death of Fox 158. 1-158 Apr 9 96 The Peninsular War 159. 1-159 Apr 10 96 The War of 1812 160. 1-160 Apr 11 96 Napoleon is Met at Waterloo Regency and Reform - Wellington to William IV: 1815-1837 161. 1-161 Apr 12 96 Peterloo and the Death of George III 162. 1-162 Apr 15 96 Cato Street, Liverpool and the Legacy of Pitt 163. 1-163 Apr 16 96 George IV and Caroline of Brunswick 164. 1-164 Apr 17 96 The Suicide of Castlereagh 165. 1-165 Apr 18 96 Peel and Criminal Reform 166. 1-166 Apr 19 96 Canning and the End of 18th Century Politics 167. 1-167 Apr 22 96 Death of Canning and Wellington in Downing Street 168. 1-168 Apr 23 96 Wellington, Ireland and Peelers 169. 1-169 Apr 24 96 The Death of George IV and the First Reform Act 170. 1-170 Apr 25 96 Poor Laws 171. 1-171 Apr 26 96 The Tolpuddle Martyrs 172. 1-172 Apr 29 96 Melbourne and the Death of William IV Age of Victoria: 1837-1901 173. 1-173 Apr 30 96 Queen Victoria and the Chartists 174. 1-174 May 1 96 The Bedchamber Crisis 175. 1-175 May 2 96 Opium and Afghan Wars 176. 1-176 May 3 96 Victoria and Dear Albert 177. 1-177 May 6 96 Peel the Prime Minister and the Com Laws 178. 1-178 May 7 96 The Coming of Disraeli and the Death of Peel 179. 1-179 May 8 96 The Last Whig Government and the Lot of the Working Classes 180. 1-180 May 9 96 The Great Exhibition 181. 1-181 May 10 96 The Crimean War 182. 1-182 May 13 96 The Charge of the Light Brigade 183. 1-183 May 14 96 Florence Nightingale 184. 1-184 May 15 96 Church and State 185. 1-185 May 16 96 Palmerston 186. 1-186 May 17 96 The Indian Mutiny 187. 1-187 May 20 96 Gladstone's First Budget 188. 1-188 May 21 96 The Arrow War 189. 1-189 May 22 96 Darwin 190. 1-190 May 23 96 The Reform Bill 191. 1-191 May 24 96 The Death of Prince Albert 192. 1-192 May 27 96 After Albert 193. 1-193 May 28 96 The Great Migrations and the Colonies 194. 1-194 May 29 96 Dickens and Poverty 195. 1-195 May 30 96 The Rise of Bismark and the Death of Palmerston 196. 1-196 May 31 96 1867--Disraeli and Electoral Reform 197. 1-197 Jun 3 96 Disraeli and the Origin of Two Nations 198. 1-198 Jun 4 96 The Irish Curch and a Constitutional Crisis 199. 1-199 Jun 5 96 The Cutty Sark, Dickens, Education and Stanley 200. 1-200 Jun 6 96 A Question of Monarchy-- Her People Are Not Amused 201. 1-201 Jun 7 96 How Britain Bought the Suez Canal 202. 1-202 Jun 10 96 1876-- Gladstone and the War in Bosnia 203. 1-203 Jun 11 96 Victoria Becomes Empress of India 204. 1-204 Jun 12 96 Gladstone Returns 205. 1-205 Jun 13 96 Death of Disraeli 206. 1-206 Jun 14 96 The First Boer War 207. 1-207 Jun 17 96 Ireland and the Phoenix Park Murders 208. 1-208 Jun 18 96 General Gordon Dies at Khartoum 209. 1-209 Jun 19 96 Salisbury Becomes Prime Minister 210. 1-210 Jun 20 96 1887-- Victoria's Golden Jubilee and the Prince of Wales 211. 1-211 Jun 21 96 Keir Hardie and the Birth of the Labour Party 212. 1-212 Jun 24 96 The Death of Gladstone 213. 1-213 Jun 25 96 1898-- Omdurman, Ladysmith and Mafeking 214. 1-214 Jun 26 96 The Boer War Turns the Century 215. 1-215 Jun 27 96 The Death of Victoria and the Dream of Gerontius 216. 1-216 Jun 28 96 2,000 Years of History