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Listen to: The Bengal Famine Featuring: audio, Lock, stock and two smoking barrels!! under CC-BY-NC-ND licence

By Michael Portillo (Guest), Nazes Afroz (Guest), Professor Christopher Bayly (Guest), Dr Sanjoy Bhattacharya (Guest), Gideon Polya (Guest), Professor Amartya Sen (Guest)

14 January 2008

A massive humanitarian tragedy - but one which barely gets remembered just sixty years on. Listen to The Things We Forgot To Remember on the Bengal...  Read more : Listen to: The Bengal Famine

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Listen to: The Suffragettes Featuring: audio, photos.com

By Michael Portillo (Guest), Professor Krista Cowman (Guest), Elizabeth Crawford (Guest), Jill Liddington (Guest), Dr Hilda Kean (Guest), Dr June Purvis (Guest)

14 January 2008

The Suffragettes have got a reputation as a largely peaceful movement - but they were prepared to go much further.  Read more : Listen to: The Suffragettes

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Listen to: The Darien Gap Featuring: audio, Creative Commons Image zugzug under CC-BY-SA licence

By Michael Portillo (Guest), Nat Edwards (Guest), Jim Malcolm (Guest), Michael Russell MSP (Guest), Douglas Watt (Guest)

31 December 2007

An attempt to establish a Scottish Empire played a major role in driving Scotland closer to England.  Read more : Listen to: The Darien Gap

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Was Magna Carta really the document which defined our freedoms?photos.com

By Michael Portillo (Guest), Dr Nicholas Bennett (Guest), Professor David Eastwood (Guest), Dr John Langton (Guest), Peter Linebaugh (Guest), Ann Lyon (Guest), Professor Andy Wood (Guest)

04 December 2006

Why do we assign so much value to magna carta? Has it edged more useful documents out of popular memory?  Read more : Was Magna Carta really the document which defined our freedoms?

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Beyond the slaughter and loss of the First World WarBBC

By Michael Portillo (Guest), Dr John Bourne (Guest), Professor Gary Sheffield (Guest), Professor Hew Strachan (Guest), Dr Dan Todman (Guest)

29 November 2006

Michael Portillo asks why we only think of slaughter and loss when we recall the Great War.  Read more : Beyond the slaughter and loss of the First World War

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OU on the BBC: The Things We Forgot To Remember - Presenter's perspectiveBBC

By Michael Portillo (Guest)

22 November 2006

As he moves his focus from current affairs to history, Michael Portillo considers the way our collective memory lets facts slip from its grasp.  Read more : OU on the BBC: The Things We Forgot To Remember - Presenter's perspective

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More warlike than we'd like to think? The Labour government of 1945BBC

By Michael Portillo (Guest), Tony Benn (Guest), Peter Alexander Rupert Carington, 6th Baron Carrington (Guest), David Edgerton (Guest), Dr Martin Gorsky (Guest), Professor Jose Harris (Guest), Dr Stuart Mitchell (The Open University), Professor John Stewart (Guest), Professor Jim Tomlinson (Guest)

11 November 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?  Read more : More warlike than we'd like to think? The Labour government of 1945

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Why do we celebrate Jack The Ripper?photos.com

By Michael Portillo (Guest), Paul Begg (Guest), Maggie Bird (Guest), Dr Peter Claus (The Open University), Professor Clive Emsley (The Open University), Barry Godfrey (Guest), Gareth Stedman-Jones (Guest)

10 November 2006

To what extent did Jack The Ripper mask more pressing fears of revolution in Victorian England? Michael Portillo investigates  Read more : Why do we celebrate Jack The Ripper?

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The other space race: TranscriptUsed with permission

By Michael Portillo (Guest), Yuri Karash (Guest), Professor Ian Morison (Guest), Slava Gerovitch (Guest), David M Harland (Guest), David Scott (Guest), Jim Lovell (Guest)

02 June 2005

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...  Read more : The other space race: Transcript

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The other Armadas: TranscriptBBC

By Andrew Lambert (Guest), Michael Portillo (Guest), Dr Sue Doran (Guest), Professor Felipe Fernandez-Armesto (Guest), Professor Nicholas Rodger (Guest), Margaret Perry (Guest)

24 May 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...  Read more : The other Armadas: Transcript

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Former Conservative MP has carved out a post-Parliament career as a television presenter and commentator. He presented the history series Things We Forgot To Remember for BBC Radio 4 and The Open University.Mi

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