A six part BBC series with Michael Mosley who takes an informative and ambitious journey exploring how the evolution of scientific understanding is intimately interwoven with society's historical path.

Episode 3: How Did We Get Here? (60 min) | Click here to watch
Director: Peter Oxely

The question of our human origins is one of the most controversial science has wrestled with. This is the story of how scientists came to explain the beauty and diversity of life on earth, and reveal how its evolution is connected to the long and violent history of our planet. Featuring ocean adventurers, eccentric French aristocrats, mountain climbers, a secret Victorian publisher with 12 fingers, a ridiculed German meteorologist, and only a brief hint of Charles Darwin.

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(58 min; 2013; English)
Director: Time Niell
A BBC Production

Novelist Jay McInerney explores the life and writing of F. Scott Fitzgerald, whose masterwork The Great Gatsby has just been filmed for the fifth time.

Fitzgerald captured the reckless spirit of New York life in the roaring twenties - the flappers, the parties, the bootleg liquor, the inevitable reckoning, and the hangover to come. In Gatsby, he created a character who reinvented himself for love - just as Fitzgerald would, not once, but twice. Fitzgerald never wrote an autobiography. He left us something better - letters. Romantic, arrogant, humble letters; letters to editors, publishers, lovers, or friends.

These letters reveal the inner thoughts of a man whose real life was never far from the fiction he wrote.

Edited by Francesca Orsini (Oxford university Press: 2022)

Release of the book followed by a discussion

Discussants: Dr. Narayani Gupta, urban historian, author and formerly Professor of History, Jamia Millia Islamia University; Dr.Shahid Amin, formerly Professor of History, University of Delhi; Prof. John Seyller, Professor of Art History, University of Vermont; and Prof. Francesca Orsini, Professor of Hindi and South Asian Literature, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London and Editor of the book

An important volume demonstrating the enduring impact of renowned scholar Simon Digby's work, and its profound relevance to future research. In this volume prominent scholars of South Asia in the fields of economic, social, religious, literary, music, photography, and art history reflect on Simon Digby's method and contribution to their respective fields, and each offer an example of their method through the analysis of a painting, object, manuscript, literary text, or building from the Sultanate, Mughal, and colonial periods.