Maya Vision International

15/11/2021

Talks coming up on Brunanburh, The Story of China, and Chinese Collections in Manchester. Starting on Wednesday with: The Beginnings of Shakespeare - New Finds and Fresh Thoughts (online and live in Manchester). Follow this link for more information!
https://linktr.ee/MICHAELWOOD3

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18/12/2020

Whatever festival you are celebrating, we wish you a safe and joyful holiday and send our very best wishes for a happy and peaceful 2021.

05/10/2020

Very exciting and a bit strange - I’m doing a real talk, to real people, in a real place tomorrow lunchtime! It's on The Battle of Brunanburh for the Society of Antiquaries... and it's available online too! https://www.sal.org.uk/event/the-battle-of-brunanburh-new-light-on-the-great-war-of-the-tenth-century/

28/09/2020

BBC Radio 4, 4.30pm tomorrow (and then on BBC Sounds) Michael Wood nominates Xuanzang, Chinese monk and traveller as one of the Great Lives to Matthew Parris.

Michael Wood on the great Chinese Buddhist monk Xuanzang.

04/09/2020

The Story of China is out now! For me writing it was a dream come true. My interest started with Chinese poetry back in my schooldays, but now we all need to know about China more than ever... and history is the key. (I would say that - but it’s true!)

30/05/2020

Another treat from Maya Vision’s back catalogue tonight! A chance to see ‘Dam Busters’ with ⁦James Holland, Directed by ⁦Aaron Young (now Bright Button Productions)
⁩Music as ever by the wonderful ⁦Howard Davidson.
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27/05/2020

Ah Ep 6, but we are signing off with a treat. This week sees Victorian concerts, WWI battlefields, Kibworth’s home guard and the village comes together one last time to bury a time capsule

19/05/2020

This week Henry VIII to the English civil war. Follow Kibworth's 17th-century dissenters, travel on the Grand Union Canal and meet the feminist writer from Kibworth who was a pioneer of children's books. Thanks
BBC Four !

12/05/2020

This week the story takes us from the Peasants’ Revolt to the Tudors. Hope you are all enjoying re watching!

08/05/2020

Made in 2005 to mark the 60th anniversary, 'Victory in Europe' the real story behind VE Day, with James Holland.

"Holland examines VE Day from every angle with poignant testimonies of Brits and Germans." - Sunday Times

05/05/2020

This week Kibworth goes through the Great Famine and the Black Death. From disaster to the forging of a community with faith, hope and charity.

28/04/2020

Just a reminder that next up on BBC 4 is episode 2....

23/04/2020

Really missing being in Stratford-upon-Avon with the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust today on Shakespeare's Birthday! Sending lots of love to all our friends and colleagues. See you soon!

Here's our Salute to Stratford:
https://youtu.be/HSc83pKxcQ4

Salute to Stratford from Michael Wood and Maya Vision Int

20/04/2020

Story of England is being retransmitted on BBC Four! It's a history of England told through one village: Kibworth in Leicestershire. All six episodes are being broadcast from 22nd April and will be available for schools to use via the red button.

05/04/2020

Hope you are all keeping well in these difficult times - letting you know that our new film is airing on Monday. Michael Wood and Sir Ian McKellen conjure up the life, times and words of one of the world’s greatest poets.
'There’s Dante, there’s Shakespeare and there’s Du Fu’ Prof Stephen Owen - Harvard

19/02/2020

Talking at the British Library for HistFest
this April. Glad to be a part of it - should be a fun weekend! http://histfest.org/aethelflaed-lady-of-the-mercians/

Æthelflæd: Lady of the Mercians 18.00 – 18.50 Saturday 4th April Æthelflæd (c870-918) is one of the most remarkable women in medieval Britain, but the fragmentary records of her career are a striking example of the erasure of women’s history. Eldest child of Alfred the Great, she governed th...