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Radio 4,06 Sep 2016,28 mins

06/09/2016

Making History

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Tom Holland and guests discuss the stories that are Making History. Helen Castor is joined by Stephen Chalke and former Sussex cricket captain John Barclay to discuss the origins and rather odd structure of English (and Welsh) county cricket. Iszi Lawrence heads to North Yorkshire to hear a story of divorce and betrayal from the 1st century and the forgotten queen who was central to both. And the former head of Friends of the Earth, Tony Juniper, takes us to South America to remind us of the achievements of the nineteenth century scientist and explorer Johann Baptist von Spix. Producer: Nick Patrick A Pier production for BBC Radio 4.

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