Podcasts by Works That Shaped The World
Works That Shaped The World is back for 2020. This year we mark the 250th anniversary of the year 1770, a year of remarkable change on the cusp of the modern world.
Works The Shaped The World explores humankind's great achievements and astonishing creations. Marking the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing in 1969, the inaugural 2019 series explored the moon through topics ranging from Shakespeare and cinema, to environmental humanities and Pythagoras.
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The Lunar Origins of Cinema: Georges Méliès and Le Voyage dans la Lune from 2023-12-13T14:13:00.089432
Since the early days of cinema, the moon has been an enchanting muse. The science of filmmaking was invented by the Lumière brothers, who débuted their cinématographe camera to astonished...
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WTSTW 1770: The Gweagal Shield from 2023-12-13T14:13:00.086408
1770 was a year of change on the cusp of the modern world. It was the year that James Cook set sail on his first voyage aboard the Endeavour. In April, he and a party landed at Kamay, what Europ...
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The Globe and the Moon: Shakespeare's Astronomical Imagination from 2019-09-10T02:20:52
How did Shakespeare understand the moon?
In plays and poems of the 16th century, the moon carried the imaginative freight of centuries. The moon is invoked to express longing, chastity, c...
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Apollo 8 and Earth Rise: Earth from the Moon, Seeing the Planet Whole from 2019-06-27T00:21:39
"Apollo 8 was the first spacecraft to send people out of Earth's orbit. The first to go to the moon. The first in lunar orbit. And leaving Earth's orbit was a momentous step. F...
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Harmony of the Spheres and the Lost Works of Pythagoras from 2019-06-26T23:41:02
"How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank!
Here will we sit and let the sounds of music
Creep in our ears: soft stillness and the night.
Become the to...
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A Unique Endeavour: The Space Race and Apollo 11 from 2019-06-26T05:33:04
"We set sail upon this sea, because there is new knowledge to be gained."
-John F Kennedy
The moon has held a special place in cultures across t...
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