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As 2017 draws to a close, Roy Jenkins looks back at some of the events and anniversaries we have reflected in All Things Considered during the past twelve months.

It has been a year of an unexpected general election and intense political controversy - not least over Brexit. North Korea has made more threatening noises on the nuclear front, and the US president has responded in kind. Syria's agony has dragged on, refugees have continued to risk their lives, hurricanes have devastated communities and famine has reappeared in parts of Africa.

And for many in Britain, it has been a year of tragedy, with terror attacks in London and Manchester, and the horrific fire at Grenfell Tower. It has also been a time of significant anniversaries, a centenary on from Passchendael, 300 years since the birth of the greatest of Welsh hymn writers, William Williams Pantycelyn and 500 years since the Protestant Reformation.