Video Documentaries

The Story of Clay ep.1 Ceramics are where art meets function - one of our oldest and most fundamental art forms, that sits at the centre of our homes. [video width="1280" height="720" mp4="https://video-clump.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/ceramics-ep.1.mp4"][/video] The first film in this three-part series looks at a history of domestic pottery in Britain from Tudor times onwards, tracing the evolution of its different techniques and styles, and examining what our pots can tell us in intimate detail how preceding generations lived and saw themselves. Whether it's for celebrating birth, marriage and death (our own or royal), eating and drinking or showing the world our social status, ceramics contain more than just our tea or coffee - they contain something of our lives, our social DNA, and reveal a lot about our taste and habits as a nation. They become, in effect, snapshots in clay. Contributors include David Attenborough, Edmund de Waal, Grayson Per

Part 3 : The Greek Thing Richard Miles explores the power and the paradox of the 'Greek Thing' - a blossoming in art, philosophy and science that went hand in hand with political discord, social injustice and endless war. [video width="1280" height="720" mp4="https://video-clump.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Ancient-Worlds-The-Greek-Thing-ep.3.mp4"][/video]   He paints a fascinating picture of the Ancient Greece and the internal and external pressures that fuelled this unique political and social experiment, one that would pioneer many of the political systems that we still live with today, from oligarchy to tyranny, from totalitarianism to democracy. Part 2 : The Age of Iron Archaeologist and historian Richard Miles looks at the winners, losers and survivors of the great Bronze Age collapse, a regional catastrophe that wiped out the hard-won achievements of civilisation in the eastern Mediterranean about 3,000 years ago. In the new age of iron, c