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Last broadcast on Sun, 12 Feb 2012, 08:50 on BBC Radio 4 (see all broadcasts).
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Awareness of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee and the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens may be widespread but fewer may know 2012 marks the two hundredth anniversary of the death of the only British prime minister to be assassinated.
Producer: Sheila Cook.
POINT OF VIEW: WHY 2012 IS A YEAR TO REMEMBER
The Queen's Diamond Jubilee festivities this summer marks one of a number of noble commemorations this year, says historian David Cannadine.
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Fri 10 Feb 201220:50
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Sun 12 Feb 201208:50
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