Download "Germany: Memories of a Nation" - Neil MacGregor's BBC Radio 4 series: click here
(30 episodes of 15 minutes each, originally broadcast in Nov. 2014)
Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum 2002-2015, gave these talks to link to the museum's "Memories of a Nation" exhibition 2014-2015, which presented a 600-year history of Germany via objects. They are available, and should remain so indefinitely, on the BBC website as podcasts.
As stated on the British Museum's web page:
"In partnership, BBC Radio 4 and the British Museum explore the fascinating and complex history of Germany in a 30-part radio series.
The series examines the key moments that have defined Germany’s past, its great, world-changing achievements and its devastating tragedies, and explores the profound influence that Germany’s history, culture and inventiveness have had across Europe."
The series examines the key moments that have defined Germany’s past, its great, world-changing achievements and its devastating tragedies, and explores the profound influence that Germany’s history, culture and inventiveness have had across Europe."