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Professor David M Anderson features on BBC Radio 4's File on 4

BBC Radio 4’s File on 4 programme this week examined the experiences of the Kenyan tea workers affected in the post-electoral violence in Kenya in January 2008. The workers are now trying to get compensation for murders and rapes from Unilever, the owner of the tea estate where the violence occurred. An interview with Professor David M Anderson features in the programme. The programme, entitled Bitter Brew is now available on the BBC Sounds website.

Thu 11 Jul 2019, 13:34 | Tags: TV and Radio, Media, Expert Comment

Professor Mark Knights features on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time to discuss The Gordon Riots

The Gordon Riots

Professor Mark Knights recently joined Melvyn Bragg on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time, to discuss why a Westminster protest against 'Popery' in June 1780 led to widespread rioting across London, lethally suppressed.

The show was originally broadcast on Thursday 2 May, but now available as a podcast on the BBC Radio 4 website.

Fri 03 May 2019, 12:56 | Tags: TV and Radio, Impact and Public Engagement, Expert Comment

Dr James Poskett on Classic FM true crime podcast

Classic FM

 

Dr James Poskett explains the grisly details behind the theft of Joseph Haydn’s skull for Classic FM’s new true crime podcast, Case Notes.

 

Tue 13 Mar 2018, 10:57 | Tags: TV and Radio

The Gettysburg Address: Professor Tim Lockley on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time

Melvyn Bragg and guests Catherine Clinton (Denman Chair of American History at the University of Texas and International Professor at Queen's University, Belfast), Susan-Mary Grant (Professor of American History at Newcastle University), and Tim Lockley (Professor of American History at the University of Warwick) discuss Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, ten sentences long, delivered at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery at Gettysburg after the Union forces had won an important battle with the Confederates. Opening with " Four score and seven years ago," it became one of the most influential statements of national purpose, asserting that America was "conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal" and "that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom-and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." Among those inspired were Martin Luther King Jr whose "I have a dream" speech, delivered at the Lincoln Memorial 100 years later, echoed Lincoln's opening words.
 

In Our Time
 
The Gettysburg Address

 

Mon 30 May 2016, 16:57 | Tags: TV and Radio

Titus Oates and his 'Popish Plot': Professor Mark Knights on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time

Melvyn Bragg and guests Mark Knights (Professor of History, University of Warwick) and Clare Jackson (Senior Tutor and Director of Studies in History at Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge) discuss Titus Oates who, with Israel Tonge, spread rumours of a Catholic plot to assassinate Charles II. From 1678, they went to great lengths to support their scheme, forging evidence and identifying the supposed conspirators. Fearing a second Gunpowder Plot, Oates' supposed revelations caused uproar in London and across the British Isles, with many Catholics, particularly Jesuit priests, wrongly implicated by Oates and then executed. Anyone who doubted him had to keep quiet, to avoid being suspected a sympathiser and thrown in prison. Oates was eventually exposed, put on trial under James II and sentenced by Judge Jeffreys to public whipping through the streets of London, but the question remained: why was this rogue, who had faced perjury charges before, ever believed?
 

In Our Time
 
Titus Oates and his
 
Thu 12 May 2016, 11:16 | Tags: TV and Radio


Professor David Anderson on Radiolab Podcast: Mau Mau

Professor David Anderson is one of the guests on the Radiolab podcast, Mau Mau.

Radiolab

 
This is the story of a few documents that tumbled out of the secret archives of the biggest empire the world has ever known, offering a glimpse of histories waiting to be rewritten.

Just down the road from a pub in rural Hanslope Park, England is a massive building — the secret archives of the biggest empire the world has ever known. This is the story of a few documents that tumbled out and offered a glimpse of histories waiting to be rewritten.

When professor Caroline Elkins came across a stray document left by the British colonial government in Nairobi, Kenya, she opened the door to a new reckoning with the history of one of Britain's colonial crown jewels, and the fearsome group of rebels known as the Mau Mau. We talk to historians, archivists, journalists and send our producer Jamie York to visit the Mau Mau. As the new history of Kenya is concealed and revealed, document by document, we wonder what else lies in wait among the miles of records hidden away in Hanslope Park.

Produced by Matt Kielty with reporting from Jamie York, with guests David Anderson, Martyn Day, Caroline Elkins, Katie Engelhart, and Gitu wa Kahengeri.

 

Tue 21 Jul 2015, 15:38 | Tags: TV and Radio, Media

Dr Anne Gerritsen to appear on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time

Dr Anne Gerritsen of the Warwick University History Department will appear on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time at 9am on Thursday 16th April 2015 to discuss Matteo Ricci and the Ming Dynasty:

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life of Matteo Ricci, a Jesuit priest who in the 16th century led a Christian mission to China. An accomplished scholar, Ricci travelled extensively and came into contact with senior officials of the Ming Dynasty administration. His story is one of the most important encounters between Renaissance Europe and a China which was still virtually closed to outsiders. With Mary Laven (Reader in Early Modern History at the University of Cambridge), Craig Clunas (Professor of the History of Art at the University of Oxford), and Anne Gerritsen (Reader in History at the University of Warwick).

Radio 4 - In Our Time

 

Wed 15 Apr 2015, 10:50 | Tags: TV and Radio

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