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Robert Seatter
Robert Seatter
The BBC Story
[4th February 2012 - 07.36]
The first television sports event in Britain to feature a live commentary – a boxing match between England and Ireland – was broadcast....
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Eugene Byrne
Eugene Byrne
The cat organ
[3rd February 2012 - 11.36]
This week's Friday funny, brought to you as ever by author and journalist Eugene Byrne, looks at a letter from Mrs Mary Midnight to the Royal Society...
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Charlotte Hodgman
Charlotte Hodgman
Tapes give insight into aftermath of Kennedy death
[3rd February 2012 - 10.59]
The US National Archives has released recordings of the Air Force One flight back to Washington on the day of John F Kennedy's assassination on...
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Charlotte Hodgman
Charlotte Hodgman
February issue out now
[31st January 2012 - 08.49]
The latest issue of BBC History Magazine is now on sale. In our new edition, presenter Jeremy Paxman and a selection of historians answer ten big...
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Charlotte Hodgman
Charlotte Hodgman
The BBC Story
[29th January 2012 - 07.16]
Desert Island Discs was devised by Roy Plomley, who presented the first edition on 29 January 1942. The programme was recorded two days earlier with...
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Eugene Byrne
Eugene Byrne
Not sewing...
[27th January 2012 - 10.20]
Horatio Bottomley was in gaol. The notorious swindler's misdeeds had finally caught up with him and now here he was in the prison workshop, sewing...
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Charlotte Hodgman
Charlotte Hodgman
Dorset grave held 'mercenary’ remains
[26th January 2012 - 15.59]
A Cambridge archaeologist has declared 54 decapitated skeletons discovered in a mass grave at Ridgeway Hill, Dorset, in 2009, to be Viking...
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Charlotte Hodgman
Charlotte Hodgman
Dave Musgrove talk at Kenwood House
[26th January 2012 - 13.29]
BBC History Magazine's Dave Musgrove will be talking about his recent book, 100 Places That Made Britain, at Kenwood House in London this weekend, as...
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Becky Hoskins
beckyhoskins
Unique Jewish exhibition to open in Cardiff next year
[26th January 2012 - 10.11]
A unique exhibition will tell the life stories of Jews in South Wales when it opens in Cardiff this year. Hineni – Hebrew for ‘Here I am...
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Eugene Byrne
Eugene Byrne
Quo vadis?
[20th January 2012 - 07.11]
It's a Saturday lunchtime one day in the early 1950s. Dad has finished his shift at the factory and rides his bike home faster than usual because he'...
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