17/02/2015

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Tom Holland is joined by archaeologist Professor Sir Barry Cunliffe and Tim Loughton MP, Vice Chair of the Archaeology All Party Parliamentary Group. Dr Matt Pope reports from Shropshire where land close to Old Oswestry Hillfort might be allocated for housing which archaeologists fear will wreck its landscape context. Tom talks to Professor Andy Beeby from the University of Durham about new research which is analysing ink on medieval parchments. And Helen Castor joins food historian Pen Vogler in the kitchen to see how people prepared for Lent in medieval times. 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.