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	Podcast:		Making History
	Episode:		Being Gay Before Gay Lib
	Category:		Society & Culture
	Duration:		00:28:04
	Publish Date:		2017-07-25 10:00:00
	Description:		Helen Castor takes the hot seat for the programme which shows why history matters. Today, testimony about coming out before the decriminalisation of homosexuality in 1967 and what we know about the lives of gay people in Victoria's Britain. Iszi Lawrence discovers that the 'gig' economy was widespread in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. And Tom Holland is on Tyneside to celebrate the history of a building which played host to an almost forgotten intellectual revolution. Producer: Nick Patrick A Pier production for BBC Radio 4.
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