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Tuesday, April 13th, 2010The Boat Race
Thursday, April 1st, 2010According to the BBC Press Office:
Television features will include Life On The River, from Coast’s Neil Oliver, and former Boat Race rower and presenter Dan Snow looks back at the colourful and rich history of the race.
Coverage of the boat race starts on Saturday 3rd April at about 3.10pm on BBC1
Dan on BBC Radio Scotland
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010Dan was also on BBC Radio Scotland this morning with MacAulay and Co.
Dan on Radio 2
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010Yesterday, Dan made an appearance on Simon Mayo’s Radio 2 drive-time show.
Download clips from the show:
Part 1
Part 2
Battle for North America
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010
Over two centuries ago, Britain and France fought a battle that would change the world. Now largely forgotten, the Battle of Quebec was once a story every schoolchild would have known. At stake was the future of North America and the fate of the British Empire.
Britain used its growing industrial strength and a new scientific approach to fight a campaign unlike any that had gone before. It launched a fleet of 200 ships carrying 20,000 men on a deadly mission through uncharted waters.
Dan Snow, an expert in this period of history having recently written a book about the expedition, sets sail up the magnificent St Lawrence River following the route taken by the British. He heads out into the wilds surrounding Quebec, takes to the air, and trains as an 18th-century infantryman, to get a true idea of what the campaign and battle would have been like for the men involved.
This period in history is best known as the setting for the Hollywood blockbuster Last of the Mohicans. Yet the events of that year, 1759, helped create the modern world and define Britain’s place in history.
Dan Snow (middle) with Lace Wars, the society of 18th century re-enactment.
Presenter Dan Snow studies an image of British ships sailing up to Quebec.
Battle for North America – Tonight!
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010Tuesday 16 March
9:00pm – 10:00pm
BBC2
Documentary telling the story of the Battle of Quebec, 1759, where at stake was the future of North America and the fate of the British Empire. Britain used its growing industrial strength and a new scientific approach to fight a campaign unlike any that had gone before. It launched a fleet of 200 ships carrying 20,000 men on a deadly mission through uncharted waters. Dan Snow sets sail up the magnificent St Lawrence River following the route taken by the British.
(via Radiotimes.com)
YouTube – Exploding melon in slow motion – double musket shot test with Dan Snow
Monday, March 8th, 2010YouTube – Canon LIVE FIRE test – 18th century canister shot
Monday, March 8th, 2010YouTube – Battle for North America Trailer.mov
Monday, March 8th, 2010BBC – BBC Two Programmes – Empire of the Seas: How the Navy Forged the Modern World, Sea Change
Saturday, January 30th, 2010Episode 4: Sea Change
In the last of this four-part series, historian Dan Snow explores the ups and downs of a climactic century in naval and British history.
Rapacious and ruthless, the 19th-century Navy used ‘gunboat diplomacy’ to push British interests further afield than ever before. It was control of the sea rather than her land empire that was the key to Britain’s growing wealth.
Technological advances saw Britain and France engage in an arms race over battleships. While Britain’s navy appeared to be winning, the meritocracy fostered in Nelson’s time was slowly being eroded by an entrenched hierarchy which smothered any spark of initiative among its sailors.
When Germany emerged as a new threat, modernising admiral Jackie Fisher was called to reform the Navy. Fisher believed in peace through deterrence and had plans for a huge new battleship – the Dreadnought.
When war finally came, the British and German fleets clashed off Jutland in 1916. But the outcome was not the knock-out blow the British public wanted. Britain emerged from World War I victorious but broke, and no longer able to maintain by far the world’s largest fleet. In time, other nations eclipsed her. It was the end of centuries of naval supremacy.
via BBC – BBC Two Programmes – Empire of the Seas: How the Navy Forged the Modern World, Sea Change.