麻豆约拍

Sir John Tiptoft
Making History listener Peter Moore is a member of the Worcester Household, a re-enactment group that focuses on events during the War of the Roses. His character is the 1st Earl of Worcester, Sir John Tiptoft. Tiptoft was a Yorkist, Edward IV鈥檚 loyal henchman who later earned the title 'butcher of England'. Peter does not deny that Tiptoft was cruel but he points out that he was possibly England's first Renaissance Man, having travelled extensively through Italy. Peter鈥檚 question for Making History was: 'how could such a cultured man be such a violent one too?'.

William Walker
William Walker, the Winchester Diver.
Bob Rust of Basildon complained that when Making History visited Winchester in October 2007, we didn鈥檛 talk about William Walker the Winchester Diver. Bob heard the story of how Walker worked underneath Winchester Cathedral shoring up the foundations during the war and he asked us to investigate further.

The Duddeston Viaduct
On Christmas Day 2007, Making History featured Brunel鈥檚 South Wales Railway to Fishguard. After the programme we were contacted by David Pearson who lives in Birmingham, who told us about the Duddeston Railway Viaduct which spans nearly three quarters of a mile of the area just to the south of the Bull Ring. Built in the 1840鈥檚 by the Great Western Railway it has never been used and David wanted to know why it was built and why has it remained redundant.