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History Extra podcast - August 2008

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4.34.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2008

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Professor Anne Curry tells us which year she would like to visit in our time machine, TV presenter Ruth Goodman updates us on her progress on the Victorian farm, Professor Glyn Williams offers his opinions on the life of Captain Cook. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:04.3

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0:06.2

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0:11.4

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0:13.3

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0:17.0

Sounds like a 100% match.

0:18.8

Book a test drive on perjot.co.uk.

0:22.0

Offer ends 30 of September 2025.

0:24.0

Personal contract purchase, subject status and availability, T's and Zs 18 plus,

0:27.6

excludes plug-in hybrids, Delantis Financial Services. Hello, welcome to this month's BBC History Magazine podcast.

0:44.8

I'm the magazine's editor, Dave Musgrave, and this, of course, is the podcast of BBC History Magazine.

0:49.9

If you've never had a chance to read the magazine, never fear, now's your chance,

0:53.8

because this month we're giving away a free copy of our August issue to the first 100 people to call in.

0:59.8

All you need to do is call 0-844-8-48-0-98, quoting the code, High Free 08080, and you'll be sent a free

1:10.5

copy of the mag. Unfortunately this is only available to

1:13.1

UK residents, but it's a great offer. Now, back to the podcast, coming up with this issue.

1:18.1

The fact that the English king called himself King of France was a constant reminder of the

1:22.4

defeats of the past. That's Professor Anne Currie, who's taking us back to 1420 in the

1:27.4

time machine this month.

1:28.4

It doesn't necessarily answer questions, but it does make it look at it from a completely different perspective.

1:34.0

And that was Ruth Goodman, who spent part of the last year living on a Victorian farm in Shropshire.

1:38.3

After Cook was killed in Hawaii, we all felt as though we'd lost our father.

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