Friday, May 27, 2011

Did Thomas Jefferson say "Publish and be damned"?


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Paul Merton's Hollywood
BBC Two
Friday 27th May, 9.30pm


Marking the centenary of Hollywood as a movie-making town, the comedian hosts a three-part series looking at the west coast film industry during the silent era. His first subject is director DW Griffith. Merton also looks at the beginning of the star system via Griffith's leading lady, Mary Pickford.

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The latest issue of BBC History Magazine is now on sale. In our new edition, David Stevenson questions why the Allies didn't march on Berlin in 1918 when they had the Germans at their mercy.
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Who in 1824 issued the famous retort "Publish and be damned"?

a) The Duke of Wellington
b) Ludwig van Beethoven
c) Thomas Jefferson
d) William Wilberforce
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ON THE PODCAST
On the podcast this month...  JUNE 2011 (download)

Michael Wood discusses the BBC's Domesday Project, David Reynolds reflects on Operation Barbarossa, Angus Konstam considers the fate of Captain Kidd and the new CEO of the National Archives comments on the organisation's future plans.
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FIFA: Football, Power And Politics
Radio 4
Sunday 29th May, 1.30pm
David Goldblatt traces the Zurich-based organisation's history.

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Egypt's Lost Cities
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Monday 30th May, 8.30pm

A look at look at how NASA is helping to locate ancient temples and pyramids in Egypt.
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Cry Havoc: The Arms Race and the Second World War 1931–1941
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Roger Moorhouse on the race for military supremacy before the Second World War.
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