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Popular history series where the past connects with the present.

Making History: 13/09/2016

13/09/2016

BBC Radio 4 - Making History, 13/09/2016

Tom Holland discusses revolution, fire and a secret war.

Hungary '56, a refugee crisis in 17th century London and Lord Paddy Ashdown goes behind enemy lines.

Tom Holland is joined by Rebecca Rideal and Dr Tom Lorman to discuss armed revolt, fire and a secret war.

Helen Castor meets up with a witness to the Hungarian Revolution of sixty-years ago and we discuss the changing attitudes to refugees.

In London, Dr Tom Charlton is joined by Professor Vanessa Harding and Professor Justin Champion in what became the 17th century equivalent of the Calais 'jungle' - a refugee camp created by the Great Fire of 1666 which was occupied for years.

And Lord Paddy Ashdown makes the case for a forgotten hero to be remembered on the Making History plinth - the wartime SOE's Roger Landes.


Producer: Nick Patrick
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