Past Programs
Galleries, Libraries and Museums - 2008
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Sir Charles Nicholson
30/11/2008
A devout Anglican and a dedicated Spiritualist, Charles Nicholson (1808- 1903) was also the co founder of the University of Sydney and the benefactor of the museum which bears his name. Filled with the antiquities he purchased with his considerable wealth, the Nicholson Museum is only a part of this extraordinary Australian's achievements, which included business, politics and medicine.
Lost Buddhas Found Read Transcript
14/09/2008
A surprise 1996 discovery of a mass burial of Buddhist sculptures in the Shandong Province of China is the basis of an exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. But these Buddha and bodhisattva statues are unusual in many ways, including their remarkable preservation, as Professor Helmut Brinker from the University of Zurich explains.
The Trials of the Templars Read Transcript
27/07/2008
At dawn on 13 October 1307 all the Templars in France were arrested by royal order, on the charge that they had been involved in secret blasphemous rituals. This led to other arrests of Templars in Europe, and an investigation by Pope Clement V. The University of Sydney Rare Books and Special Collections Library recently obtained trial documents from the Vatican archives, which John Pryor discusses with Rachael Kohn.
Medieval Manuscripts in Australia Read Transcript
06/04/2008
The State Library of Victoria has amassed a major manuscript exhibition of extraordinary beauty called The Medieval Imagination, and Bronwyn Stocks introduces one manuscript, the late medieval Italian prayer book, the Book of Hours.
