What new history series (documentary) should the BBC make?

[kyser_soze]

Didn't Quest used to be UKTV History?

 

[Bakunin]

Didn't Quest used to be UKTV History?

UKTV History is now called 'Yesterday', I think.

Quest only appeared on my Freeview list a couple of weeks ago.

 

[marty21]

Been done - Robert Kee's 'Ireland: A Television History'. That was quite some time ago, though.

Docs on Irish history on Irish telly seem to be monopolised by a revisionist clique, alas.

wouldn't mind seeing the Robert Kee stuff, have read some of his books, but a new series would be good to see, as long as it was well researched and balanced yes I know that's unlikely

 

[Orang Utan]

UKTV History is now called 'Yesterday', I think.

Quest only appeared on my Freeview list a couple of weeks ago.

i can't wait to see Skirmish when Conquest comes on Freeview

 

[Belushi]

actually africa isn't covered nearly enough in documentaries -

Did you see Cuba! Africa! Revolution! on BBC4 last year? that was an excellent three-parter.

 

[Bakunin]

Ooh, for anyone interested in the gladiators and the Colosseum there's a documentary on Quest (if you have Freeview) at 9pm tonight.

Bumped as this programme starts in a couple of minutes.

 

[ShiftyBagLady]

UKTV History is now called 'Yesterday', I think.

I was watching what turned out to be a good programme on Yesterday but all I could thinkof was "What a stupid fucking name for a channel"

 

[Orang Utan]

there's a programme on yesterday tomorrow

 

[trabuquera]

Proper history of pre-Columbus America
A history of Indonesia (massively important state globally and hardly anyone in the UK knows anything about it) - lots of boat fodder too
Snap on a history of languages worldwide
History of the Etruscans - antiquity's coolest party animal culture
Cracking series on the Enlightenment across all fields of art, philosophy and science - sadly needed in today's climate of religious resurgence.

 

[butchersapron]

there's a programme on yesterday tomorrow

Not today there ain't.

 

[quimcunx]

Pre-Yugoslavia and Yugoslavia.

Africa.

I'd quite like a more detailed version of that Millennium series following what was happening where along a timeline.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Isn't it strange how you see so few history programmes about British colonialism?

Lots about the second world war though