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UK: History of the world to be told in 100 museum pieces

WHEN the novelist H G Wells wrote his history of the world, he kept it short. The writer Julian Barnes’s humorous attempt at the same subject was contained in a mere 10½ chapters.

But there will be no such brevity in the latest attempt to chronicle human history. The British Museum and its director, Neil MacGregor, are planning to tell the story of civilisation in 100 episodes.

The series, to be broadcast on BBC Radio 4, is the brainchild of Mark Damazer, the network’s controller, a history buff who realised that the British Museum and its 7m objects were the ideal place to base a story of mankind.

“It will be a history of human society from the whole world, told through 100 of our objects,” said MacGregor, who will narrate the series.
Read entire article at Times (UK)