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Ten years in the making, PORNOGRAPHY: THE SECRET HISTORY OF CIVILISATION is a six-part series, which tells for the first time on British television the history of pornography. This landmark series charts the changes in imagery prompted by the advent of new technologies over thousands of years: from ancient times to print, photography, film, video and the Internet.
Last Episode Aired
1999-10-14
S1E1 — The Road to Ruin
The science of archaeology. imagery has been at the heart of culture all over the world, from the Cerne Abbas man to the painted walls of Pompeii, from the carvings of Bourges Cathedral to the obscene pamphlets of the French Revolution.
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Henri Pachard
Marc Warren
Andrew Wallace-Hadrill
Douglas Rushkoff
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