12/08/2014
Helen Castor chairs Historians' Question Time, recorded at the Chalke Valley History Festival in June, in which a panel of historians and journalists answer listeners queries.
Making History Programme Description Tuesday12th August
Helen Castor chairs Historian's Question Time at the Chalke Valley History Festival, the now annual event in which Making History listeners can quiz a panel of leading historians, writers and journalists. This year the questions range from the importance of anniversaries to the validity of studying the history of sport, theatre and even gardening.
Joining Helen is the sixteenth century specialist Dr Suzannah Lipscombe; the Professor of International History David Reynolds; the historian of gardening and science Dr Andrea Wulf; and one of our leading foreign correspondents the presenter of Channel 4 News' Jon Snow.
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Historian’s Question Time
In the last of the series, Helen Castor takes the chair as Making History listeners get the chance to quiz some of our leading historians and writers at the in Wiltshire.
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is Convenor and Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at the New Col-lege of the Humanities in London.ΜύΜύ
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trained as a design historian and now works as a full-time writer. Her in-terests include the history of gardens and the history of science.
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is Chair of the Faculty of History and Fellow of Christ’s College, Cambridge. His latest work is The Long Shadow: The Great War and The Twentieth Century.Μύ
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is the presenter of Channel 4 News and one of our foremost foreign corre-spondents.Μύ
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Making History is produced by Nick Patrick and is a Pier Production for Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4.
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