Timewatch · SEASON 10
The Transmission of Roger Bacon
Episode 5 · 1991-03-13
- Documentary
Episode overview
A death ray to combat the Antichrist; the effectiveness of astrology; the bizarre sexual practices of the Brahmins; and the impossibility of a society whose sole aim is money and gain. These are some of the ideas which the eccentric medieval scholar Roger Bacon wanted to transmit to the Pope when he wrote to him in 1268. It is a work which gives us a glimpse of the strange and compelling mental landscape of the Middle Ages.
50 minutes
Season 10 episodes
1. Savagery and the American Indian: 1: Wilderness1991-01-23
2. Savagery and the American Indian: 2: Civilisation1991-01-30
3. The Man Who Made the Supergun1991-02-13
4. Reluctant Comrade1991-02-27
5. The Transmission of Roger Bacon1991-03-13
6. Palestine: The First Intifada1991-03-27
7. A Cold War1991-04-10
8. Beside Franco in Spain1991-09-18
9. Charles Darwin - Devil's Chaplain1991-10-02
10. The Columbus Conspiracy1991-10-16
11. Harvests of Iron: 1: The Watch on the Somme1991-10-30
12. Harvests of Iron: 2: The Theatre of Operations1991-11-06
13. Suffer the Children1991-11-20
14. The Spoils of War1991-12-18
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