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==Media projects== MacGregor has made many programmes for British television and radio. In the year 2000, he presented on television ''Seeing Salvation'', about how Jesus had been depicted in famous paintings. More recently, he has made important contributions on [[BBC Radio 4]], including ''[[A History of the World in 100 Objects]]'' and, in 2012, a series of fifteen-minute programmes after ''[[The World at One]]'' called ''Shakespeare's Restless World'', discussing themes in the plays of [[William Shakespeare]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Shakespeare's Restless World |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/shakespeares-restless-world/ |work=BBC Radio 4 |access-date=26 July 2012}}</ref> In September 2014 UK domestic transmission started of his similarly formatted series ''Germany: Memories of a Nation'' on BBC Radio 4, with a major supporting exhibition at the British Museum. This series did not limit itself to physical objects but places of memory, including for example the forest.<ref>{{cite web |title=Germany: Memories of a Nation |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04dwbwz/ |author=Neil MacGregor, BBC Radio 4 |access-date=1 October 2014}}</ref> In 2017, MacGregor hosted a BBC Radio Four series ''[[Living with the Gods]]'', on expressions of religious faith, liaising with Sabyasachi Mukherjee, Director of the [[Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya]] in Mumbai, on the presentation of world cultures.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.britishmuseum.org/about_us/news_and_press/press_releases/2015/neil_macgregor_to_step_down.aspx| title = Neil MacGregor to step down as Director of the British Museum at the end of 2015| date = 30 May 2015| access-date = 12 January 2017| publisher = British Museum Press Release}}</ref><ref name="BBC Living With The Gods">{{cite episode| title= The Beginnings of Belief| series= Living With The Gods | credits= Presenter: Neil MacGregor; Producer: Paul Kobrak| network= BBC| station= [[BBC Radio 4]]| url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b099xhmj | airdate= 23 October 2017| access-date= 23 October 2017 }}</ref> At the beginning of 2019, MacGregor presented a programme called "As Others See Us" on BBC Radio Four. This programme looked at how his own country (the United Kingdom) was seen by other countries around the world. In 2021, he gave a series of lectures at the “Chaire du Louvre” in Paris. The following year, MacGregor presented the BBC Radio 4 series ''The Museums That Make Us'' in which he visited local, regional, and city museums throughout the UK.<ref>{{cite web| title= The Museums That Make Us| url= https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0015474| website= [[BBC Online]] | accessdate= 11 March 2022 }}</ref>
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