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Great Lives

George Washington Williams

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Broadcaster Ade Adepitan chooses the African American historian, George Washington Williams. With Matthew Parris. From 2015. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Matthew Parris
Interviewed Guest:
Ade Adepitan
Interviewed Guest:
David Brown

In Our Time

The Lancashire Cotton Famine

Duration: 45 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the cotton famine in Lancashire during the American Civil War, when the supply of cotton from the south was blocked and mills closed. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Melvyn Bragg
Interviewed Guest:
Lawrence Goldman
Interviewed Guest:
Emma Griffin
Interviewed Guest:
David Brown