10/02/2015

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Seventy years on from dramatic and deadly Allied air attacks, Tom Holland visits Dresden in the east of Germany. He finds out how the city has dealt with this history, why it continues to concern us and how different regimes have used it. In the studio, Helen Castor and her guests - Professor Richard Overy (University of Exeter) and Dr Astrid Swenson Lecturer in Politics and History at Brunel University - discuss the horror of those nights in February 1945 and how they compared with bombing raids on other European cities such as London, Coventry and Hamburg. Back in England, Martin Ellis visits Stoke-On-Trent to find out whether history and heritage can replace garden festivals to become a major factor in the social and economic rejuvenation of the Potteries. Contact the programme by email: [email protected] - or write to Making History, BBC Radio 4, PO Box 3096. Brighton BN1 1PL. Producer: Nick Patrick A Pier production for BBC Radio4.