Night Waves - Richard III's Bones

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4.2 • 599 Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2013

⏱️ 46 minutes

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The King in the car park: what is the significance of the University of Leicester’s discovery of the bones of Richard III, one of Britain’s most vilified monarchs? Matthew Sweet is joined by human remains sociologist Tiffany Jenkins and historian Jonathan Healey to discuss. BFI curator Nathalie Morris reviews the new film Hitchcock, and discusses the importance of his wife, Alma, for his career and reputation. We look at cross-dressing in the late nineteenth century, with biographer Neil McKenna. And Pulitzer Prize-winning geographer Jared Diamond discusses his new thought-provoking study of tribes from New Guinea to the Kalahari Desert.

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0:40.8	slash radio three. Good evening. I have a question for you, ladies and gentlemen. Strangulation,
0:53.6	garotting, poisoning, which is the
0:55.8	most picturesque form of murder? Who ever discussed it with your spouse or partner? Some marriages,
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1:06.9	inside the head of Hitchcock, Alma Hitchcock. In addition, I'd also like to introduce
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