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White Liberation

Papers unearthed by the BBC reveal that British and American commanders ensured that the liberation of Paris on 25 August 1944 was seen as a "whites only" victory. Many who fought Nazi Germany during World War II did so to defeat the vicious racism

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Stalin's Nemesis

Nigel Anthony reads from Bertrand M Patenaude's account of the exile and subsequent assassination of Leon Trotsky, who was outmaneuvered for the leadership of the Soviet Communist Party by Josef Stalin before being exiled, eventually going into hid

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Betsy and Napoleon

Betsy and Napoleon Betsy Balcombe was thirteen when Napoleon Bonaparte came to live in her garden. The two forged an extraordinary relationship in the first weeks of Napoleon's incarceration on St Helena . Julia Blackburn draws from Betsy's memoirs

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Sir Arthur C. Clarke Interview

This is a CBC interview of Sir Arthur C. Clarke by Canadian Eleanor Wachtel host of CBC's Writer's and Company broadcast. Clarke has been called an "interplanetary treasure" for his science and fiction writing. He wrote more than 80 books, includi

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Carl Sagan: A Personal Voyage

Carl Sagan: A Personal Voyage Broadcast Saturday 11 April 2009 (The Archive Hour) Physicist and broadcaster Brian Cox presents a tribute to his science hero, the American astronomer Carl Sagan, the man who many people describe as the greatest popul

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The New Hindu Fundamentalists

The New Hindu Fundamentalists Tue 5 May 2009, 20:00, Radio 4 Duration: 40 minutes Navdip Dhariwal investigates the rise of Hindu fundamentalism in Britain. Hindutva - the belief that India should exclusively follow the laws and principles of the ma

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Blonde On Blonde BBC2

The name of the series is self explanatory. This lady is the first of the Blonde phenonenon. Doris Mary Anne von Kappelhoff (born April 3, 1924) is a German-American singer, actress, and animal welfare advocate known as Doris Day. Able to sing, danc

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Al Bowlly Britain's First Pop Star

Al Bowlly Britain's First Pop Star BBC Radio 2 Clare Teale presents a series profiling 30s singer Al Bowlly, the first to step out from behind the band and into the spotlight. With anecdotes about his fascinating life, and playing some of his huge

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The First Private Eye

The First Private Eye First broadcast 9 Aug 2002, Radio 4 repeated 29 May 2009, Radio Scotland (Conan Doyle & Crime Day) Crime writer Val McDermid profiles Allan Pinkerton, the Glaswegian who gave the world the term 'private eye' and brought his

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The Stonewall Riots

All of these programs are about or the result of a Police raid in 1969 on the Stonewall Inn a popular Gay Club in NY. There were riots after the raid. The gays had been discriminated against and had to keep up an appearance that they were heterosex

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I Did Not Interview The Dead

Alan Dean reports on Dr. David Boden who in 1946 made recordings of Interviews with survivors of the Nazi Death Camps. He made close to 200 interviews so that no one would forget. Here is his story. They are hard to listen to, but No One should forg

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The Sexton's Tales


There are 166,000 names engraved in the 51,000 headstones of Highgate Cemetery.

Each life a story.


Stories of love and hate...


Of joy and sorrow...


Of murder and exhumation.

THE SEXTON'S TALES
An eighteen-part series for radio, broadcast by

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