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30 minutes
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Steven Knight, creator of ‘Peaky Blinders’, nominates Sitting Bull. With Jacqueline Fear-Segal and Matthew Parris. From 2017. Show more
42 minutes
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Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life of Pocahontas, the 17th-century Native American woman who to English eyes became a symbol of the New World. Show more
46 minutes
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Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the California Gold Rush of the 1850s, when a chance discovery of gold led to massive demographic changes to parts of America. Show more
49 minutes
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1846-48 American war against Mexico, in which America won over a million square kilometres of Mexican territory, including California. Show more
