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🗓️ 6 January 2015
⏱️ 28 minutes
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0:00.0 | You're about to listen to a BBC podcast and I'd like to tell you a bit about the |
0:03.8 | podcast I work on. I'm Dan Clark and I commissioned factual podcasts at the BBC. |
0:08.6 | It's a massive area but I'd sum it up as stories to help us make sense of the forces shaping the world. |
0:15.0 | What podcasting does is give us the space and the time to take brilliant BBC journalism |
0:20.0 | and tell amazing compelling stories that really get behind the headlines. |
0:23.7 | And what I get really excited about is when we find a way of drawing you into a subject |
0:28.3 | you might not even have thought you were interested in. |
0:30.2 | Whether it's investigations, science, tech, politics, culture, true crime, the environment, |
0:36.1 | you can always discover more with a podcast on BBC Sounds. |
0:39.8 | Great Lives is a download from Radio 4. We hope you enjoy what you're about to hear. |
0:45.0 | A few times on this program, we've profiled people whose nomination as Great Lives has seemed a little contentious. |
0:52.0 | Richard Nixon and Ervin Rommel spring to mind, |
0:55.0 | or Alexander the Great perhaps, |
0:58.0 | or Attiller the Hun. |
0:59.0 | But never, I think, one whose reputation has oscillated so violently between villain and hero as today's |
1:06.4 | subject or inspired such passionate feelings about his personality and it's a long story too from his death in 1485 to the day in 2013 |
1:18.7 | when this announcement was made. |
1:20.5 | Archaeologists say a skeleton found beneath a car park in Leicester is that of King Richard |
1:26.4 | the 3rd. |
1:27.4 | It is the academic conclusion of the University of Leicester that beyond reasonable doubt the individual exhumed at Greyfriars in September 2012 is indeed |
1:36.7 | Richard III, the last Plantagenet King of England. |
1:39.7 | That piece of archive from the World at One in February 2013 must still be ringing in the ears of today's guest, |
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