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Making History: 12/08/2014

12/08/2014

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Helen Castor chairs Historians' Question Time at the Chalke Valley History Festival.

Helen Castor chairs Historians' Question Time, recorded at the Chalke Valley History Festival in June, in which a panel of historians and journalists answer listeners queries.

Making History Programme Description Tuesday12th August


Helen Castor chairs Historian's Question Time at the Chalke Valley History Festival, the now annual event in which Making History listeners can quiz a panel of leading historians, writers and journalists. This year the questions range from the importance of anniversaries to the validity of studying the history of sport, theatre and even gardening.

Joining Helen is the sixteenth century specialist Dr Suzannah Lipscombe; the Professor of International History David Reynolds; the historian of gardening and science Dr Andrea Wulf; and one of our leading foreign correspondents the presenter of Channel 4 News' Jon Snow.


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