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Things We Forgot to Remember

Series 6

Episode 3: 3. The Violent Side of Indian Independence

BBC Radio 4

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Michael Portillo looks at the Indian struggle for independence in the early twentieth century and finds that there was violent as well as peaceful protest. Show more

Source: BBC Online

Things We Forgot to Remember

Series 6

Episode 4: The Great Depression in the USA

BBC Radio 4

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Michael Portillo asks whether our popular memory of the past conceals forgotten truths, comparing the myths and reality of the Great Depression in 1930s America. Show more

Source: BBC Online

Things We Forgot to Remember

Series 6

Episode 2: Jesse Owens and the Nazi Olympics

BBC Radio 4

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for over a year

Michael Portillo revisits great moments of history to discover that they often conceal other events of equal, but forgotten, importance. This week, the Berlin Olympics of 1936. Show more

Source: BBC Online

Things We Forgot to Remember

Series 6

Episode 1: King Harold

BBC Radio 4

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Michael Portillo looks again at Harold, the last of the Saxon Kings, his limited claims to the throne and the fragility of the nation state he strove to defend. Show more

Source: BBC Online