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Harbin China
A listener鈥檚 grandmother was kidnapped and then shot in the city of Harbin in North East China in 1932, what was going on there at the time and why would a British citizen have been targeted? Vanessa Collingridge spoke with Dr Rana Mitter at the University of Oxford who explained that this area if China was caught up in the competing aspirations of Imperial Japan, newly nationalistic China and Soviet Russia.

The Dockside Dandies of Lowestoft
London-based artist Peter Wylie is from Lowestoft in Suffolk and he recently came across photographs like the one above which recorded a style of dress that appears to be unique to the fishermen of his home town in the early 1960鈥檚. Making History heard from some of the surviving fishermen who wore these flamboyant suits who explained that they could earn up to 拢30 a week (that鈥檚 almost 拢500 in today鈥檚 money) and could therefore afford to spend up to 拢25 on them. Chris Breward, Head of Research at the V&A in London, was surprised by the photographs and, although they reminded him of similar styles seen in London at around the same time, could see no direct