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In Our Time Alfred Russel Wallace
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the work of the biologist Alfred Russel Wallace.
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Document Votes for Victorian Women
Sarah Richardson discovers a document which shows that women in Lichfield voted in 1843.
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Witness The Lebanon hostage crisis
In 1991 Giandomenico Picco was sent to Beirut to try to free Western hostages.
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Baroque in Britain Episode 5
5/5 Might the Baroque still be with us? Tim Marlow meets the Baroque-inspired artists of today
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Baroque in Britain Episode 4
4/5 It's 1734, and a 'battle of the buildings' breaks out on the outskirts of Barnsley.
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In Our Time Chekhov
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and work of the Russian writer Anton Chekhov.
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Baroque in Britain Episode 3
3/5 It's 1711, and an opera premiere by Handel is about to set a new course for British opera.
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Baroque in Britain Episode 2
2/5 Was the Great Fire of London a missed opportunity to create Europe's finest Baroque city?
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Document 11/03/2013
Did the 1916 Dublin Rising catch the cabinet by surprise? Author Nick Rankin investigates.
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Baroque in Britain Episode 1
1/5 30 January 1649, Charles I walks to his execution under Rubens's Banqueting House ceiling.
