Episodes
| Series | Episode | Title | First Broadcast | Repeated | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 02 | The Archaeologist | 19990420 | 20140706 (BBC7) 20171017 (BBC7) | Archaeologist Barry Cunliffe examines amulets.
Views of Oxford's Aladdin's cave for anthropologists, the Pitt Rivers Museum. Archaeologist Barry Cunliffe examines amulets. Barry Cunliffe finds amulets from around the world that represent parts of the body in need of a cure. | |
| 04 | The Historian | 19990422 | 20140720 (BBC7) 20171019 (BBC7) | Christina Hardyment on medieval long bows.
Five views of Oxford's Aladdin's cave, the Pitt Rivers Museum. Historian Christina Hardyment on medieval long bows. Christina Hardyment discovers how the English longbow, so successful at Agincourt, compares with bows from around the world. | |
| 05 | The Musicologist | 19990429 | 20171020 (BBC7) | Musicologist Lucy Doran explores the musical objects of the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford. | |
| 05 LAST | The Musician | 19990423 | Musicologist Lucy Doran gets lost among the musical instruments collected by Pitt Rivers, Balfour and Captain Cook. | ||
| 05 LAST | The Musicologist | 20140727 (BBC7) | Musicologist Lucy Doran explores the musical objects of the Pitt Rivers Museum.
Five views of Oxford's Aladdin's cave, the Pitt Rivers Museum. Musicologist Lucy Doran explores the musical objects. | ||
| 199B | 01 | The Engineer | 19990419 | 20140629 (BBC7) 20171016 (BBC7) | Oxford's Aladdin's cave for anthropologists seen through the eyes of five different visitors. 1: `The Engineer'. Tim Hunkin, cartoonist and maker of automata, examines the wooden heads that inspired his own contribution to the Pitt Rivers museum. " Cartoonist Tim Hunkin examines wooden heads in the Pitt Rivers Museum.
Cartoonist Tim Hunkin examines wooden heads in the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford's Aladdin's cave for anthropologists. Tim Hunkin, cartoonist and maker of automata, examines the wooden heads that inspired his own contribution to the Pitt Rivers museum." Cartoonist Tim Hunkin examines wooden heads in the Pitt Rivers Museum. |
| 199B | 02 | The Archaeologist | 19990420 | The Oxford museum - an Aladdin's cave for anthropologists - seen through the eyes of five different visitors. 2: `The Archaeologist'. Barry Cunliffe finds amulets from around the world that represent parts of the body in need of a cure. | |
| 199B | 03 | The Novelist | 19990421 | 20121231 (BBC7) 20140713 (BBC7) 20171018 (BBC7) | Oxford's museum - an Aladdin's cave for anthropologists - seen through the eyes of five different visitors. 3: `The Novelist'. P D James included a Fijian whale tooth necklace in her novel `The Children of Men'. She returns to the museum to discover more about its origins. PD James learns more about a Fijian whale tooth necklace at the Oxford museum.
PD James learns more about a Fijian whale tooth necklace. PD James wrote of a Fijian whale tooth necklace in The Children of Men - she learns more about it at the Oxford museum. Fiji: Novelist PD James included a whale tooth necklace in 'The Children Of Men'. She aims to learn more about it at a museum. |
| 199B | 04 | The Historian | 19990422 | Oxford's Aladdin's cave for anthropologists seen through the eyes of five different visitors. 4: `The Historian'. Christina Hardyment discovers how the English longbow, so successful at Agincourt, compares with bows from around the world. | |
| 199B | 05 | The Musician | 19990423 | Oxford's Aladdin's cave for anthropologists seen through the eyes of five different visitors. 5: `The Musician'. Musicologist Lucy Doran gets lost among the musical instruments collected by Pitt Rivers, Balfour and Captain Cook. |
