Earlier today a friend was asking for suggestions as to what might occupy her time on long international flights. My suggestion was A History of the World in 100 Objects,\u00a0a podcast made by the BBC in a joint venture with the British Museum… but instead of just suggesting it I found myself enthusiastically endorsing it, which led to the realisation that it’s some of the best podcasting I’ve ever heard.<\/p>\n
One hundred 15-minute programmes, each focusing on an object from the British Museum\u2019s collection, written and narrated by Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
And let me tell you, Neil MacGregor is phenominal. Charismatic, erudite and passionate, I’m surprised he’s not all over the telly like Attenborough.<\/p>\n
Each individual chapter is fascinating in its own right while also being part of a greater narrative as the series goes through the 100 objects in chronological order starting with a stone blade and ending with a solar-powered lamp.<\/span><\/p>\n
At fifteen minutes a pop they’re bite-sized if that’s what you’re after but they’re also great in back-to-back stretches. With 100 episodes that’s 25 odd hours of coherent, fascinating and beautifully told story.<\/span><\/p>\n
iTunes link here<\/a>\u00a0and the site is\u00a0here<\/a>, where you can see the objects they’re on about.<\/p>\n
I can’t recommend it highly enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier today a friend was asking for suggestions as to what might occupy her time on long international…\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}