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Lies My Teacher Told Me

When the textbooks are faked - history is subverted.

Radio 4 Extra,5 episodes

Episodes

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1. All is Revision
An exploration of the global pitfalls in telling textbook national history.
27 Jan 2020,14 mins
2. Lebanon-History Interrupted
In Lebanon, the past is frozen - history lessons stop at 1943.
28 Jan 2020,14 mins
3. Saffronising History
The impact of Hindu nationalist narratives on recounting India's story.
29 Jan 2020,14 mins
4. Japan - Revising the past
The controversial history lessons in Japanese schools.
30 Jan 2020,14 mins
5. Northern Ireland-Healing History?
In the 1970's, a new kind of history teaching began in Northern Ireland.
31 Jan 2020,14 mins