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Making History: Chickens, motorcycle gunners and graffiti

01/03/2011

Chickens, motorcycle gunners and graffiti

BBC Radio 4 - Making History, Chickens, motorcycle gunners and graffiti

Tom Holland with the first in a new series of Radio 4's popular history magazine.

Listeners share their ideas and questions with some of the world's leading historians.

A new series and a team of new presenters. Tom Holland, Helen Castor and Fiona Watson share the workload as we sift through listeners' questions and research and turn to some of our leading historians for some answers. 

Why would you boast about having a chicken in France, why is a motorcycle gunner wearing spurs and why should we thrilled about graffiti on a medieval church wall in rural East Anglia? 

Each week, the Making History team: tackles these and many other questions; here's about the latest research and puts the Radio 4 audience at the heart of historical debate. 


Producer: Nick Patrick
A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4.

Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

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