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In Our Time

1816, the Year Without a Summer

Duration: 46 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the link between the eruption of Mt Tambora in 1815, the largest and most lethal in recorded history, with famines in Europe and America in 1816. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Melvyn Bragg
Interviewed Guest:
Clive Oppenheimer
Interviewed Guest:
Jane Stabler
Interviewed Guest:
Lawrence Goldman

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