Spin The Globe - Michael Scott
Category: History
Narrator: Full Cast
Tags: History, Radio Productions, Documentary
Spin the Globe A BBC Radio 4 History Series By: Michael Scott Narrated by: Michael Scott Length: 3 hrs and 13 mins Radio/TV Program Release date: 16-06-2022 Language: English Publisher: BBC Audio, Michael Scott presents this bite-sized history series, exploring key years of change across the world., Some dates are indelibly etched into our minds, forever associated with particular historical events. But what else was going on in the world during those climactic years? In this surprising, thought-provoking series, historian Michael Scott looks at seven pivotal historical dates, spinning the globe to discover what was happening away from the geographical centre that makes them so famous., Beginning with 1605, he discovers that the year of the Gunpowder Plot also saw the printing of the first newspaper and the publication of Don Quixote, while 1066 marked not only the Battle of Hastings but a brutal massacre in Spain. As World War I broke out in 1914, a new dance crazethe foxtrotwas inven
