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Making History
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Tuesday 3.00-3.30 p.m
Nick Baker and the team answer listeners' historical queries and celebrate the way in which we all 'make' history.
Programme 9
19 December 2006

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A Short History of Spam

Making History consulted Shawn Radford, Curator of the Spam Museum in Austin Minnesota

The cookery writer Marguerite Patten and the technology writer Wendy Grossman

Professor Matthew Jones of the School of American and Canadian Studies at the University of Nottingham talked about ‘Lend Lease’

And Tom Standage of The Economisttalked about the earliest unsolicited telegrams

The following books were referred to:

The Victorian Internet by Tom Standage Phoenix press 1999 ISBN: 0753807033

Inventing the Victorians by Matthew Sweet Faber and Faber 2002 ISBN: 0571206638
The Fisher Theatres

The restoration of a Georgian theatre in Bungay, Suffolk and where it fits in to the history of British theatre in the first half of the nineteenth century.

The Fisher Theatre Bungay

Making History consulted Moira Field, Ivy Collins and the theatre historian Dr David Willmore

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Vanessa Collingridge
Vanessa CollingridgeVanessa has presented science and current affairs programmes for BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5 and Discovery and has presented for BBC Radio 4 & Five Live and a regular contributor to the Daily Telegraph and the Mail on Sunday, Scotsman and Sunday Herald. 

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Making History is a Pier Production for BBC Radio 4 and is produced by Nick Patrick.

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