Tom Holland and guests discuss the stories that are Making History

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Tom is joined by Professor Marjory Harper from the University of Aberdeen and Dr Elizabeth Shlala from Harvard. With Syria in turmoil and its largest city battered, Tom Holland is joined by Philip Mansel and Professor Jerry Brotton to discover an age when this place was a cosmopolitan cornerstone of the Middle East. Helen Castor treks west to find out how men and women tamed the wilderness of North America both on the ground and in popular culture. She talks to Dr Karen Jones from the University of Kent. Social historian Juliet Gardiner shares her favourite year from history - 1936. And Dr Catherine Fletcher from the University of Swansea discusses the new breed of "hashtag historians". Producer: Nick Patrick A Pier production for BBC Radio 4.