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Radio 3,19 mins

Series2016

The Great Fire of London

BBC Proms

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On this day 350 years ago the capital was in ruins after the Great Fire of London. Historian Adrian Tinniswood describes the massive clearing-up operation, and talks to New Generation Thinker Thomas Charlton of Dr Williams's Library.

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