Professor Mary Beard, renowned classicist and TV historian, is to explore what life was like in one of the world’s most extraordinary and iconic archaeological sites, in Pompeii: Life Before Death, a new landmark programme for BBC One.Mary Beard – a world Pompeii expert and author of Pompeii:...
The BBC today announced the commission of Civilisations, a major new ten-part series telling the story of art from the dawn of human history to the present day, for the first time on a global scale.It is now nearly half a century since Kenneth Clark’s series Civilisation thrilled audiences wi...