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How to escape the tower

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4.34.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2011

⏱️ 40 minutes

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David Cannadine examines the history of teaching history and Nigel Jones reveals the best methods for escaping from the Tower of London. 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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1:48.7

I'm Rob Atar, Deputy Editor of the magazine,

1:56.9

and this is the first of our December 2011 podcast. Don't forget, BBC History Magazine is on sale in all good newsagents and on subscription. Visit our website, history extra.com, for more

2:02.9

information, or you can follow us at Twitter.com forward slash history extra or Facebook.com

2:08.6

forward slash history extra. Coming up this week, we have. It's a standard explanatory paradigm

2:14.3

for much of the media that things are terrible now and they must have been better

2:18.3

earlier. That was Professor Sir David Canardine on the history of history teaching. He managed to

2:24.0

persuade the young lady who looked after his laundry and his bedding to put on his nightcap and

2:30.5

lie in his bed. And that was Nigel Jones on ingenious methods of escaping from the Tower of London. First up this week is Professor Sir David Canardine, one of our leading historians working today.

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