Alastair Sooke takes an in-depth look at the art of the Roman Empire.

Alastair Sooke takes an in-depth look at the art of the Roman Empire.

Meet the Romans 　　Professor Mary Beard looks beyond the stories of emperors, armies, guts and gore to meet the everyday people at the heart of Ancient Rome's vast empire We still live in the shadow of ancient Rome - a city at the heart of a vast empire that stretched from Scotland to Afghanistan, dominating the West for over 700 years. Professor Mary Beard puts aside the stories of emperors and armies, guts and gore, to meet the real Romans living at the heart of it all.

每一天的每一刻，我们都生活在一个由科学构建的世界里。但是，我们如何来到这里的？这个问题不仅仅是一个有着重大发现，天才思想或某个人跳出浴缸，大叫“我找到了！”的故事所能解答的。《科学的历史》为我们展示了历史上的政治动荡是如何与改变我们的生活。该剧每一集都从一个每个人都会问到的简单问题开始，然后对过去进行研究，发现人们的故事，并重新塑造出人们通过试验来发现答案的情景，并由此改变了这个世界。这部系列片将让我们了解从前科学家如何发现我们的构成，我们来自何处，以及地球出现之前的情景。

《古罗马人》是BBC2的一个6 x 30的系列纪录片。Adam Hart-Davis 将和我们一同探讨古罗马人对于现在的生活的影响，从乳罩到桥，从排序法到餐桌上的刀叉，从混凝土结构到避孕套，古罗马人带给英国人的发明和创新改变了他们的建筑风格及生活的方式。在他们逗留的近400年间，他们建造了三十座城镇，留下了迷人的复杂的技术。 　　 　　Programme 1: 奢华的生活 　　Programme 2: 入侵 　　Programme 3: 城镇和乡村 　　Programme 4: 帝国之动脉 　　Programme 5: 帝国的优势 　　Programme 6: 那个时代的高峰

Levon remembers his childhood in Turkey: love, political brutality. A bloody comedy. Also a modern crime story about Armenian terrorists and Turkish secret agents, about Kurds tragedy. 　　Askarian’s most recent project is another meditation on the artist in exile. Like the filmmaker Avetik and the real-life composer Komitas from his previous films, Levon - a writer of Armenian extraction now living in Rotterdam - is caught between memories of homeland and the realities of contemporary life. From his Dutch domicile, Levon reminisces about his brother-in-law (a hairdresser who robs dead Turks), a brilliant Kurdish musician, a red-bearded executioner, a seventeen-year-old girl with chestnut-colored skin, and a Turkish Apollo with eight wives who likes to bury himself in hot ash. His memory is also populated by beautiful thoroughbred horses, stray dogs, camel drivers, soldiers, and Turkish policemen. These poetic, almost surrealist scenes of magic love and political cruelty are contrasted with the reality of present day Rotterdam, presented in the guise of a modern crime story with Armenian terrorists and a Kurdish tragedy. 　　"Every year, we look at thousands of films and when one shines above the rest, as ON THE OLD ROMAN ROAD did, it is indeed a pleasure. Don Askarian, recently honored with a Harvard Film Archive retrospective, is considered the greatest living Armenian filmmaker. In Askarian's latest film, which he describes as “a bloody comedy”, a man in exile remembers a childhood of magic and mayhem, complete with grave robbers, brutal assassinations, horses, and men buried in hot ash. As striking a visual feast as one can find, this is an extravagant and crystalline treasure, a film whose rewards far outweigh its considerable demands."

1/6. What Is Out There? 　　How we came to understand our planet was not at the centre of everything in the cosmos. 　　第1集：宇宙是什么 　　人类是如何认识到地球不是宇宙的中心的。 　　2/6. What is the World Made of? 　　How atomic theories and concepts of quantum physics underpin modern technology. 　　第2集：世界由什么构成 　　原子理论和量子物理是如何支撑现代技术的。 　　3/6. How Did We Get Here? 　　How scientists came to explain the diversity of life on earth. 　　第3集：生物起源 　　科学家是如何解释地球生物的多样性的。 　　4/6 Can We Have Unlimited Power? 　　The story of how power has been harnessed from wind, steam and from inside the atom. 　　第4集：人类有无穷的力量吗？ 　　人类利用风能、水蒸汽能和原子能的故事。 　　5/6. What Is the Secret of Life? 　　The story of how the secret of life has been examined through the prism of the human body. 　　第5集：生命秘密 　　从人体的多样性研究生命秘密的故事。 　　6/6 Who are we? 　　The sciences of brain anatomy and psychology have offered different visions of who we are. 　　第6集：我们是谁？ 　　脑解剖学及心理学为“我们是谁？”这个问题提供了新观点。

1/6. What Is Out There? 　　How we came to understand our planet was not at the centre of everything in the cosmos. 　　第1集：宇宙是什么 　　人类是如何认识到地球不是宇宙的中心的。 　　2/6. What is the World Made of? 　　How atomic theories and concepts of quantum physics underpin modern technology. 　　第2集：世界由什么构成 　　原子理论和量子物理是如何支撑现代技术的。 　　3/6. How Did We Get Here? 　　How scientists came to explain the diversity of life on earth. 　　第3集：生物起源 　　科学家是如何解释地球生物的多样性的。 　　4/6 Can We Have Unlimited Power? 　　The story of how power has been harnessed from wind, steam and from inside the atom. 　　第4集：人类有无穷的力量吗？ 　　人类利用风能、水蒸汽能和原子能的故事。 　　5/6. What Is the Secret of Life? 　　The story of how the secret of life has been examined through the prism of the human body. 　　第5集：生命秘密 　　从人体的多样性研究生命秘密的故事。 　　6/6 Who are we? 　　The sciences of brain anatomy and psychology have offered different visions of who we are. 　　第6集：我们是谁？ 　　脑解剖学及心理学为“我们是谁？”这个问题提供了新观点。

What do the rise and fall of the Roman Empire, the Thirty Years’ War and the Renaissance have in common? For one, they were all starkly affected by extreme weather conditions. Indeed, if we take a fresh look at human history in the light of Earth’s volatile climate, we can expose hidden parallels, draw surprising conclusions and explain bizarre historical conundrums. 　　This two-parter combines natural sciences and history, a journey from the Big Bang to Iceland’s volcanoes – a gripping narrative that explores little-known connections between the Earth’s climate and major historical events. 　　Are these extremes of weather really a 21st-century phenomenon? Or has climate determined the fate of humanity ever since amphibians took their first steps on terra firma?

What do the rise and fall of the Roman Empire, the Thirty Years’ War and the Renaissance have in common? For one, they were all starkly affected by extreme weather conditions. Indeed, if we take a fresh look at human history in the light of Earth’s volatile climate, we can expose hidden parallels, draw surprising conclusions and explain bizarre historical conundrums. 　　This two-parter combines natural sciences and history, a journey from the Big Bang to Iceland’s volcanoes – a gripping narrative that explores little-known connections between the Earth’s climate and major historical events. 　　Are these extremes of weather really a 21st-century phenomenon? Or has climate determined the fate of humanity ever since amphibians took their first steps on terra firma?