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Factual: History (26 programmes)

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  1. Sacred Music Bach and the Lutheran Legacy

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    4/4. How Martin Luther had a profound effect on the development of sacred music.

  2. Sacred Music Tallis, Byrd and the Tudors

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    3/4. Thomas Tallis and William Byrd were important composers in England's musical Renaissance.

  3. Sacred Music Palestrina and the Popes

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    2/4. Simon Russell Beale explores Renaissance Rome and the music of the enigmatic Palestrina.

  4. Sacred Music The Gothic Revolution

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    1/4. Simon Russell Beale visits Notre Dame and finds the key to the development of polyphony.

  5. Michael Portillo: Digging up the Dead

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    How Spain is exhuming bodies from mass graves, the legacy of Franco's dictatorship.

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