Groundbreakers
Description: Investigating the lives of groundbreaking historical figures.
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Plot: Simon Sebag Montefiore charts the rise of Istanbul from pagan trading post to capital of three empires and two religions, becoming not only holy but the most coveted city in the world.
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Plot: Simon Sebag Montefiore explores one of the oldest and religiously significant cities in the world.
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Plot: Professor Mary Beard takes a look beyond the stories of emperors, armies and gore in ancient Rome, a city at the heart of a vast and dominating empire -- in order to meet the everyday people at the heart of the empire. The program draws a portrait of the first global metropolis as seen through the...
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