The Written World [In Our Time]

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Duration

28 minutes
30 minutes

Genre

Culture And The Media
Factual
History
In Our Time
Arts

Station

Radio 4

Episodes

Episode	Title	First Broadcast	Comments
	Literature	20120105	Melvyn Bragg investigates how the written word, a technology originally used for accountancy, gave rise to all of human literature. He charts the emergence of poetry and history writing in the ancient world, inspects an ancient Egyptian precursor to Hamlet, and discovers how Greek literary traditions reached this country in the Middle Ages.Producer: Thomas Morris. How the written word, originally used for accountancy, gave rise to human literature. Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas, people and events that have shaped our world.
01		20120102	Melvyn Bragg investigates the development of the written word and how it has shaped our intellectual history. In this first programme he looks at the technology of writing, arguably our most important invention. He examines some of the oldest surviving writing implements, and discovers and how making signs on clay, wood or parchment enabled the development of human culture. Producer: Thomas Morris. Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas, people and events that have shaped our world.
02		20120103	In the second instalment of his survey of the written word, Melvyn Bragg traces the evolution of writing technology from the time of classical antiquity to the invention of printing. He discovers the origins of the book, and encounters the earliest surviving intact example in the Western world.Producer: Thomas Morris. Melvyn considers the impact of the invention of the book. Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas, people and events that have shaped our world.
03		20120104	Melvyn Bragg continues his survey of the history of the written word by investigating how writing has influenced the spread of religion. He finds out how the evolution of writing materials and techniques allowed religions to develop, and encouters some of the earliest surviving sacred texts, including the 4th-century Codex Sinaiticus and a Koran produced in Iraq in the 8th century.Producer: Thomas Morris. How the invention of writing influenced the spread of religion. Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas, people and events that have shaped our world.
05		20120106	How the invention of writing made the scientific revolution of the Enlightenment possible. Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas, people and events that have shaped our world.

Episodes

Episode	Title	First Broadcast	Comments
	Literature	20120105	Melvyn Bragg investigates how the written word, a technology originally used for accountancy, gave rise to all of human literature. He charts the emergence of poetry and history writing in the ancient world, inspects an ancient Egyptian precursor to Hamlet, and discovers how Greek literary traditions reached this country in the Middle Ages.Producer: Thomas Morris. How the written word, originally used for accountancy, gave rise to human literature. Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas, people and events that have shaped our world.
01		20120102	Melvyn Bragg investigates the development of the written word and how it has shaped our intellectual history. In this first programme he looks at the technology of writing, arguably our most important invention. He examines some of the oldest surviving writing implements, and discovers and how making signs on clay, wood or parchment enabled the development of human culture. Producer: Thomas Morris. Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas, people and events that have shaped our world.
02		20120103	In the second instalment of his survey of the written word, Melvyn Bragg traces the evolution of writing technology from the time of classical antiquity to the invention of printing. He discovers the origins of the book, and encounters the earliest surviving intact example in the Western world.Producer: Thomas Morris. Melvyn considers the impact of the invention of the book. Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas, people and events that have shaped our world.
03		20120104	Melvyn Bragg continues his survey of the history of the written word by investigating how writing has influenced the spread of religion. He finds out how the evolution of writing materials and techniques allowed religions to develop, and encouters some of the earliest surviving sacred texts, including the 4th-century Codex Sinaiticus and a Koran produced in Iraq in the 8th century.Producer: Thomas Morris. How the invention of writing influenced the spread of religion. Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas, people and events that have shaped our world.
05		20120106	How the invention of writing made the scientific revolution of the Enlightenment possible. Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas, people and events that have shaped our world.