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Radio 3,04 Mar 2014,45 mins

Vikings, Seafaring and Navigation

Free Thinking

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Matthew Sweet visits the British Museum's Vikings exhibition with the curator Gareth Williams and Radio 3 New Generation Thinker Dr Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough from Durham University. Vikings Life and Legend runs from March 6th - June 22nd Lincoln Paine discusses his history of navigation and seafaring 'Sea and Civilization'. Captain M.K.Barritt, author of An Artist in the Channel Fleet, looks at the Napoleonic War artist J.T. Serres Producer: Jacqueline Smith.

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