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Episode: Approaches to death
Pub date: 2024-03-27

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Viking burials, preserving archaeology in Uganda, the morgues of Paris and New York and the medieval attitude to dying are our topics as Chris Harding hears about new research from archaeologists Marianne Hem Eriksen and Pauline Harding, and historians Cat Byers and Harriet Soper.

Catriona Byers is completing a PhD at King’s College London on the nineteenth-century morgues of Paris and New York

Dr Marianne Hem Eriksen is Associate Professor of Archaeology at the University of Leicester and a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker. You can find an Essay she has written for BBC Radio 3 drawing on her research available now on BBC Sounds

Dr Harriet Soper is Lecturer in Medieval Literature at the University of Bristol

Pauline Harding is working on a PhD at UCL’s Institute of Archaeology, about spirits and approaches to cultural heritage in Uganda

Producer: Robyn Read

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