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Radio 4,06 Nov 2013,15 mins

SeriesSeries 4

How to Remember

Four Thought

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Sam Edwards argues that we should think again about how and what we memorialise - including wars and other major events in our national history. Sam is a lecturer in American History at Manchester Metropolitan University, and has long been fascinated with memorials. He tells the story of how, as a young man, he would journey around the Suffolk countryside visiting the many memorials to the US 8th Air Force, and the effect it had on him. Producer: Giles Edwards.

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