24/05/2011

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Fiona Watson explores the history of those who had to fight for both the Soviets and the Nazis in World War 2. In Scotland we get a sneak preview of Historic Scotland's makeover of the royal apartments at Stirling Castle - a sixteenth century renaissance gem which was built to show-off the Stuart's place in European politics. In London, a grubby identity card, which was found by a listener in her grandfather's personal possessions, reveals a forgotten moment of civil unrest in 1887 when the East End poor clashed with police in troops in Trafalgar Square. Tom Holland meets nineteenth century historian and Labour MP Tristram Hunt to find out more about a little-remembered 'bloody Sunday'. Making History's game of historical chance, 'double-top Domesday' ends up in the village of Sturton by Stow in North West Lincolnshire thanks to the dart-throwing skills of Dr Richard Jones at the University of Leicester. Producer: Nick Patrick A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4.