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Free Thinking: 2014 Festival: Burning the Facts: The Link Between Lord Lucan and Joan of Arc

Burning the Facts: The Link Between Lord Lucan and Joan of Arc

06/11/2014

2014 Festival

BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, 2014 Festival, Burning the Facts: The Link Between Lord Lucan and Joan of Arc

Historian Helen Castor and biographer Laura Thompson discuss myths, mysteries and evidence

In a discussion held in front of an audience at Sage Gateshead, Rana Mitter is joined by Helen Castor and Laura Thompson to consider the ways myth-making can cloud history.

Which historical 'facts' should be burned on the fire? How do you comb ancient and recent times for evidence? 
Rana Mitter is joined by Helen Castor and Laura Thompson to discuss the ways mythmaking can cloud history. 

Laura Thompson's books include Life in a Cold Climate:Nancy Mitford - A Portrait of a Contradictory Woman, An English Mystery: A Life of Agatha Christie and A Different Class of Murder:The Mysterious Case of Lord Lucan. 

Helen Castor is the author of Joan of Arc and writer and presenter of the TV series She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England and the book it was based upon.

Recorded in front of an audience at BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival of Ideas at Sage, Gateshead. All the discussions and essays from the Free Thinking festival are available as Radio 3 Arts and Ideas downloads. 

Producer: Harry Parker.

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Events from the 2014 Free Thinking festival. The theme is 'the limits of knowledge'

Series of events from the 2014 Free Thinking festival. The theme is 'the limits of knowledge'

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