Eyewitness, 1900-1909: A History of the Twentieth Century in Sound

Other by Joanna Bourke presented by Tim Pigott-Smith

Released 5 April 2004

Tracklist

  • CD 1
  • 1
    Introduction
    2:06
  • 2
    The Beginning of the Boer War
    1:46
  • 3
    Home Front
    5:13
  • 4
    Popular Sentiment and Rudyard Kipling
    2:06
  • 5
    Ireland and the Boer War
    2:30
  • 6
    Dissenting Voices
    1:08
  • 7
    The Siege of Ladysmith
    2:01
  • 8
    The Siege of Kimberley
    2:08
  • 9
    Defeats at Magersfontein, Colenso and Spion Kop
    8:19
  • 10
    The Relief of Ladysmith
    1:19
  • 11
    The Siege of Mafeking
    6:40
  • 12
    The Relief of Mafeking
    4:55
  • 13
    Guerrilla Tactics
    5:06
  • 14
    Atrocity at Christmas
    3:03
  • 15
    The Blockhouse System; The Burning of Boer Farms; Concentration Camps
    6:38
  • 16
    Peace and the Treaty of Vereeniging
    2:41
  • 17
    Imperial Disillusionment
    2:58
  • 18
    The Death of the Queen
    5:40
  • 19
    Funeral Procession on the Solent
    2:36
  • 20
    Funeral Procession in London
    4:56
  • 21
    The End of an Era
    1:30
  • CD 2
  • 1
    Introduction
    4:51
  • 2
    Science and Superstition
    2:33
  • 3
    The First Transatlantic Wireless Message
    4:42
  • 4
    The German Threat and the Kaiser
    4:00
  • 5
    Protective Tariffs
    3:04
  • 6
    New Liberalism
    1:32
  • 7
    Poverty
    4:31
  • 8
    Poverty and State Intervention
    3:50
  • 9
    Boy Scouts
    4:26
  • 10
    Education in a Slum School
    4:33
  • 11
    Education at Home
    7:43
  • 12
    Women at University
    2:48
  • 13
    Female Suffrage: The Pankhursts and Their Admirers
    5:30
  • 14
    Militancy and Arrest
    4:37
  • 15
    A Militant Suffragette
    6:08
  • 16
    Forcible Feeding
    2:24
  • 17
    Suffragettes and Suffragists
    4:37
  • 18
    The Pageant of Great Women
    2:29
  • CD 3
  • 1
    Introduction: More Edwardian London
    3:51
  • 2
    Clothes and Respectability
    2:45
  • 3
    Punishment
    2:16
  • 4
    The Moral Code
    2:48
  • 5
    Religious Influence
    1:23
  • 6
    Temperance
    1:09
  • 7
    Social Classes and Spiritual Dictators
    1:49
  • 8
    The Parish as the Hub of Social Life
    3:09
  • 9
    Muscular Christianity and Cricket
    4:11
  • 10
    Olympic Games 1908
    4:25
  • 11
    Edward Elgar
    5:13
  • 12
    Amateur Concerts
    2:01
  • 13
    Bicycles and Fairs
    3:07
  • 14
    Cornish Tin-Miner
    2:14
  • 15
    Alcohol
    1:42
  • 16
    Domestic Service
    4:12
  • 17
    The Theatre in Rural Areas
    1:56
  • 18
    The Theatre in London
    5:51
  • 19
    Music Hall and Marie Lloyd
    5:30
  • 20
    The Motor Car
    2:41
  • 21
    Powered Flight and Science Fiction
    2:13
  • 22
    First Channel Flight
    4:12
  • 23
    Revolution in Politics 1909
    5:20
  • 24
    Death of the King
    0:43

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