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Michael Portillo
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Why do we assign so much value to magna carta? Has it edged more useful documents out of popular memory?
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04 Dec 2006
Michael Portillo asks why we only think of slaughter and loss when we recall the Great War.
29 Nov 2006
The Welfare State was the defining act of the Clement Atlee's government. But does that overshadow a strong hand played in defence of the realm?
11 Nov 2006
To what extent did Jack The Ripper mask more pressing fears of revolution in Victorian England? Michael Portillo investigates
10 Nov 2006
For The Things We Forgot To Remember, Michael Portillo asks if the Space Race was won and lost long before Neil Armstrong took his small step.
02 Jun 2005
In this edition of BBC Radio 4's Things We Forgot To Remember, Michael Portillo takes a closer look at the myths that have obscured the real threats of Spanish invasion of Elizabethan England.
24 May 2005
In this edition of The Things We Forgot To Remember, Michael Portillo discovered that The Battle of Britain wasn't the only significant turning point in the Second World War.
17 May 2005