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42 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
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Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Book of Common Prayer, published after the Reformation in order to make church liturgy available in English. Show more
50 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LWLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the fierce contest for Malta, which the Ottomans tried to prise from the Knights Hospitaller who they they had already driven from Rhodes in 1522. Show more
43 minutes
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the sea battle of Lepanto, in which the Christian forces of the Holy League defeated the Ottoman fleet of Selim II in 1571. Show more
45 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 3
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Peter Stanford, Ulinka Rublack and Diarmaid MacCulloch join Anne McElvoy to discuss Martin Luther: fundamentalist, reactionary or the enlightened creator of the modern world? Show more
44 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 3
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Matthew Sweet looks at the career of impresario Philip Astley and 250 years of the circus with Vanessa Toulmin, Andrew Van Buren, Naomi Frisby and Tom Rack. Show more
