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In Our Time

Purgatory

Duration: 49 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for over a year

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of Purgatory as an idea and, from C12th, as a place imagined alongside Heaven and Hell where souls of sinners would be purged by fire. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Melvyn Bragg
Interviewed Guest:
Laura Ashe
Interviewed Guest:
Matthew Treherne
Interviewed Guest:
Helen Foxhall Forbes

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