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The humble vegetable that prevented Europe from starving ....
even if it took them a while to shake off their prejudices and actually eat it.
BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, The Great Irish Famine
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Cameo 37 - Faust
Not just a character from literature but a real man....or two men......or lots of men.
Many thanks to Luna Cherry who has offered to make pictures for all our cameo episodes. To see more of her work go to https://luzmarmexico.myportfolio.com
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Hallowe'en Special - The Devil in the Landscape
There are hundreds of places in Britain named after the Devil, many with their own explanatory folktale. We look at the question, given that surely the Devil is a very scary concept, why did people make up stories that made him look a fool?
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Cameo 36 - 1492 And All That - Esteban
A truly extraordinary story of survival. They set off for Florida with 610 people and 80 horses, in the end there were just four people and no horses ... so maybe survival isn't the word.
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1492 And All That - After 1492
What happened to the Americas after Columbus inflicted himself on the continent.....and what effect did that have on Europe? We'll give you a clue, it worked out a lot better for one of them than the other.
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Join us, Michelle and Lucy, for a mildly diverting delve into the great, the good, the mad, the brave, the outrageous, the mischievous and the truly preposterous folk of the Tudor Age. Two enthusiastic Tudorphiles discuss each in turn and give them marks out of ten for intrigue, martyrdom, posterity and rise & fall before deciding whether they are Tudorlicious.
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