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The History Playlist
Dive into the best history podcasts from Radio 4.
The History Playlist
Welcome to The History Playlist - updated every Wednesday.
Medieval saints: miracles, relics and pilgrimage—You're Dead to Me
Join Greg and his guests to learn about the medieval cult of saints and their relics.
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Why don’t women’s clothes have pockets?—Here For The History
The surprising history of how women’s pockets fell in and out of fashion over time.
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Christabel Russell - Scandalous Divorce—Lady Killers with Lucy Worsley, Lady on Trial
Lucy Worsley explores one of the most scandalous divorce cases of the 20th century.
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Eglantyne Jebb Saves The Children—History's Heroes
How a woman’s arrest in Trafalgar Square changed the lives of children around the world.
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Reformation Centenary Broadsheet—A History of the World in 100 Objects, Tolerance and Intolerance (AD 1550-1700)
Neil MacGregor with a souvenir of the 100th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation.
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On Liberty—In Our Time
John Stuart Mill's argument for the limits of power that society has over the individual.
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Ravi Shankar, India's famous sitar player—Great Lives
Bobby Seagull picks Ravi Shankar.
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2. The Limits of Knowledge—Rory Stewart: The Long History of..., Ignorance
Rory Stewart makes a radical case for embracing ignorance.
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The History Playlist
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