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A Listen and Learn Series BACKGROUND TO THE CRUSADES

on Network Three

A series of seven programmes
6-The Fourth Crusade by Sir Steven Runciman
It has been said that the Crusades began with the Infidel at the gates of Constantinople and ended with the Infidel at the gates of Vienna. Sir Steven Runciman describes how the Fourth Crusade, unhappily distinguished for its pillage of Byzantium, contributed to the decline of Christendom in the East.
A forty-page pamphlet, illustrated in full colour, can be ordered, price 3s. 6d., through newsagents and booksellers, or direct by sending a crossed postal order for 3s. 6d. (not stamps, please) to [address removed]
The order of Programmes 6 and 7, as listed in the pamphlet, has been transposed

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