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	Podcast:		Making History
	Episode:		22/03/2016
	Category:		Society & Culture
	Duration:		00:27:52
	Publish Date:		2016-03-22 10:30:00
	Description:		Tom Holland is joined by Dr Nick Beech from Queen Mary University of London and Professor Emma Griffin from the University of East Anglia. We're in Toxteth, Liverpool, to find out more about the history of the terraced house. Christian Wolmar joins us from King's Cross railway station where he asks whether the Flying Scotsman deserves to be so famous. And we explore the history of Easter with the Bishop of Norwich who explains why it moves around the calendar. Helen Castor catches up with Dr Oleg Benesch at the University of York who argues that the Samurai of the nineteenth century borrowed heavily from the Victorian notion of chivalry. Finally, the author Jenny Uglow shares with us her favourite year - 1798. Producer Nick Patrick A Pier production for BBC Radio 4.
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