Melvyn Bragg
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1,061 appearances
8 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2026
last heard 2d ago
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And so you can can say can summarise by saying it is a revolutionary idea that has revolutionized the way we look at the planet.
Yes, yes.
So they have agreement.
How satisfactory.
Thank you all very much.
Thank you very much, Richard Caulfield, Lynn Frostick and uh Joe Cann.
Next week I'll be discussing the Renaissance court of Emperor Rudolph II in Prague, the forgotten powerhouse of the Renaissance with Kepler, Taco Brahe, Giordano Bruno.
And others, uh and that's it.
Thank you very much for listening.
Hello, in the early fifteenth century BC a woman came to power in ancient Egypt.
Her name was Hatshepsut, and she remained the longest reigning female pharaoh until Cleopatra fourteen hundred years later.
She was remarkable for ruling in a society normally controlled by men.
She ruled for about fifteen years.
But that's far from the most remarkable thing about her.
Many scholars regard her as one of the most influential pharaohs of the New Kingdom period of Egyptian history.
Among her achievements, she forever changed the public image of the pharaoh, embarked on a far reaching building program, and increased Egypt's prosperity by expanding its trade network.
Yet at some point after her death it seems
that a systematic attempt was made to erase her memory from the records and her image was removed from many of her monuments.
With me to discuss Hat Shepwood's life and legacy are Elizabeth Frude, Associate Professor of Egyptology at the University of Oxford,
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