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David Hendy explores how the BBC kept up with a changing Britain throughout the 1960s

Jonathan Fennell answers listener questions on the North African campaign in the Second World War

Charlotte Cooper-Davis details the life and legacy of the prolific medieval author and poet, Christine de Pizan

How do you fight a disease, when you don’t know what causes it? In this episode, Ellie Cawthorne speaks to Elma Brenner about medieval medical thinking and how it informed responses to the Black Death, from ideas about how bad air and misaligned planets could make you sick, to the rituals and remedies used to treat plague victims and the state of 14th-century hospital care.

The primary sources quoted in this series are mainly taken from:

The Black Death, translated and edited by Rosemary Horrox (1994)

The Black Death, The Great Mortality of 1348-1350: A Brief History with Documents, John Arberth (2005)

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Kojo Koram discusses the economic and legal legacies of the British empire – and how they can still be felt today

Philip Oltermann tells the strange story of the poetry group run by the East German Ministry for State Security

Nicholas Orme traces the story of English cathedrals, from their early medieval roots to their role in modern day communities

Dr Clare Jackson tackles listener questions on the reestablishment of the monarchy in 1660, after 11 years of Republican rule

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Dean Vuletic speaks to Ellie Cawthorne about the history of the Eurovision Song Contest – and what it tells us about the changing face of Europe