Podcasts by Living with the Gods
Neil MacGregor explores the role and expression of shared beliefs in communities around the world. Produced in partnership with the British Museum.
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Living with Each Other from 2017-12-01T10:00
Neil MacGregor concludes his series about shared beliefs. He began with the Lion Man, an object created 40,000 years ago, and now reflects on the present, on the future and on hope
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The Search for a State from 2017-11-30T10:00
Neil MacGregor continues his series on shared beliefs with a look at the attempts of some faiths to establish a state of their own.
An over-printed coin from 2nd century Jerusalem tells of...
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Turning the Screw from 2017-11-29T10:00
Neil MacGregor continues his series on shared beliefs with a focus on those faiths seen as a threat to the state.
A plain board, to be found on a 17th-century Japanese roadside, offers gen...
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Living with No Gods from 2017-11-28T10:00
Neil MacGregor focuses on societies which aimed to live without religious beliefs.
Neil examines a revolutionary clock, from around 1795, created in the wake of the French Revolution, and...
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Ruling with the Gods from 2017-11-27T10:00
Neil MacGregor continues his series on shared beliefs with a focus on earthly rulers and the gods.
Queens and kings may be priests of the gods, or their representatives. They may be incar...
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Gods Living Together from 2017-11-24T10:00
Neil MacGregor continues his series about the expression of shared beliefs with a focus on how faiths co-exist in India.
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Global Gods, Local Needs from 2017-11-23T10:00
Neil MacGregor continues his series about the expression of shared beliefs with a focus on gods can reach new communities, and how those communities can then adapt and change the faiths.
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The Other Side of the Leaf from 2017-11-22T10:00
Neil MacGregor continues his series about the expression of shared beliefs with a focus on societies who believe that they share the landscape with co-inhabitants who are not visible but are pre...
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Living with One God from 2017-11-21T10:00
Neil MacGregor's series on the role and expression of beliefs continues with a focus on societies and faiths with a single god.
Using objects from both ancient Babylon and ancient Egypt, ...
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Living with Many Gods from 2017-11-20T10:00
Neil MacGregor's series on the role and expression of beliefs continues with a focus on societies living with many gods.
In the mid-1840s, a Roman earthenware jar was dug from the earth n...
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Rejecting the Image from 2017-11-16T16:00
Neil MacGregor's series on the role and expression of beliefs continues with a reflection on faiths which focus on the word rather than the image.
A striking cobalt blue mosque lamp, from...
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Change Your Life from 2017-11-16T10:00
Neil MacGregor continues his series about the expression of shared beliefs with a focus on images which seek to change the viewer's behaviour.
A small coloured wood-cut, created in the Ne...
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The Making of Meaning from 2017-11-15T10:00
Neil MacGregor continues his series about the expression of shared beliefs with a focus on how we come to comprehend sacred images.
Our understanding of the rock art created by the San pe...
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Replicating the Divine from 2017-11-14T10:00
Neil MacGregor continues his series on the expression of shared beliefs with a focus on the making of divine images.
For the painter of a Russian religious icon, the paramount purpose is ...
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The Protectoresses from 2017-11-13T10:00
Neil MacGregor's series on the role and expression of beliefs continues this week with a focus on images.
In Mexico, the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe came not from the hand of an artist...
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To Be a Pilgrim from 2017-11-09T10:00
Neil MacGregor continues his series on the expression of shared beliefs in communities around the world and across time, and focuses on pilgrimage, and its role in Christianity, Buddhism and Isl...
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Holy Killing from 2017-11-08T10:00
Neil MacGregor continues his series on the expression of shared beliefs in communities around the world and across time, and focuses on sacrifice..
Displayed in the British Museum is a fi...
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Gifts to the Gods from 2017-11-07T10:00
Neil MacGregor continues his series on the expression of shared beliefs in communities around the world and across time, and focuses on offerings.
High in the Andes in Colombia, the indig...
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The House of God from 2017-11-06T10:00
Neil MacGregor's series on the role and expression of beliefs continues with a focus on the creation of sacred spaces, built for encountering or engaging with the divine.
Stone tablets in ...
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The Power of Song from 2017-11-03T10:00
Neil MacGregor continues his series on the expression of shared beliefs in communities around the world and across time. He focuses on a Kirchenpelz or 'church fur' - a sheepskin coat made in th...
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Lines of Communication from 2017-11-02T10:00
Neil MacGregor continues his series on the expression of shared beliefs in communities around the world and across time.
He focuses on prayer, reflecting on how this most highly individua...
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Becoming an Adult from 2017-11-01T10:00
Neil MacGregor continues his series on the expression of shared beliefs in communities around the world and across time.
He focuses on rites of passage, marking the transition from childh...
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Mother and Child from 2017-10-31T10:00
Neil MacGregor continues his series on the expression of shared beliefs in communities around the world and across time.
He focuses on how societies and communities seek to protect the ne...
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Living with the Dead from 2017-10-30T13:16
Neil MacGregor's series on the role and expression of beliefs continues with a reflection on our relationship with the dead.
In the British Museum, he focuses on mummy bundles from Peru, ...
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Dependence or Dominion? from 2017-10-27T09:00
Neil MacGregor continues his series on the expression of shared beliefs in communities around the world and across time. He focuses on the natural world and seasonal change: the Yupik people of ...
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Here Comes the Sun from 2017-10-26T09:00
Neil MacGregor continues his series on the expression of shared beliefs in communities around the world, and focuses on light.
He experiences the sunrise whilst inside the monumental ston...
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Water of Life and Death from 2017-10-25T09:00
Neil MacGregor continues his series on the expression of shared beliefs in communities around the world and across time, and focuses on water, including a visit to the Ganges at Varanasi, India....
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Fire and State from 2017-10-24T09:00
Neil MacGregor continues his series on the expression of shared beliefs in communities around the world and across time.
Many societies have seen the mesmerizing phenomenon of fire as a s...
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The Beginnings of Belief from 2017-10-23T09:00
Neil MacGregor, former Director of the British Museum, begins this series about the role and expression of shared beliefs with the Lion Man, a small ivory sculpture which is about 40 000 years o...
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