Chalke Talk

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Chalke Talk episodes

March 29, 2021 50. Clare Mulley (2019)
THE WOMAN WHO SAVED THE CHILDREN: EGLANTYNE JEBB

Eglantyne Jebb not only helped save millions of lives, she also permanently changed the way the world treats children through the foundation of Save the Children. Clare Mulley brings to life this brilliant, charismatic, and passionate woman, whose work took her between drawing rooms and war zones, defying convention and breaking the law, until she won support from everyone from Welsh coal miners to the British aristocracy, and from the Pope to the Communist regime in Moscow.

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59 min
March 26, 2021 49. Rana Mitter (2018)
CHINA’S WAR WITH JAPAN 1937-45: A STRUGGLE FOR SURVIVAL

In 1937 the ‘Marco Polo Bridge Incident’ plunged China and Japan into a conflict of extraordinary duration and ferocity - a war that would result in many millions of deaths and completely reshape East Asia in ways that we continue to confront today. Professor Rana Mitter explains how Japan’s failure to defeat China was the key dynamic for what happened in Asia during WWII.

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49 min
March 24, 2021 48. Margaret MacMillan (2016)
HISTORY’S PEOPLE: PERSONALITIES AND THE PAST
What difference do individuals make to history? Scrutinising the lives and behaviour of great and lesser-known figures of the past, internationally-acclaimed historian Margaret MacMillan investigates the decisions they made that changed our lives irrevocably. What is the concept of leadership? And how, for better or worse, have personalities influenced the way we see our past and our present?

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39 min
March 22, 2021 47. Ben Macintyre (2017)
SAS: ROGUE HEROES
The history of the SAS is an exhilarating tale of fearlessness and heroism, recklessness and tragedy. Ben Macintyre, best-selling author of Agent Zigzag, tells the story of David Stirling, the eccentric young officer who was given permission by Churchill to recruit the most ruthless soldiers he could find, thereby founding the most mysterious military organisation in the world: the SAS.

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46 min
March 17, 2021 45. Max Hastings (2019)
VIETNAM: AN EPIC TRAGEDY 1945-1975
In an acclaimed retelling of the Vietnam tragedy, Max Hastings offers a balanced account of how and why the Vietnam War unfolded as it did, and a gripping description of what it was like to take part, based on the testimony of scores of participants - communist and anti-communist Vietnamese, Chinese railway engineers, Soviet missile crews, American soldiers, movie stars - whose experiences extended far beyond the battlefields.

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1 hr 2 min
March 15, 2021 44. A.C. Grayling (2019)
THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY
The story of philosophy is an epic tale: from classical antiquity to the present, it is the unending quest for an understanding of reality, truth and value by some of the most creative minds in the world. Professor Anthony Grayling gives a comprehensive account of the great adventure of philosophy, mainly in the Western tradition but with overviews of the rich Indian, Chinese and Arabic-Persian traditions also.

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51 min
March 12, 2021 43. Peter Frankopan, Marina Litvinenko, Edward Lucas with Mary Ann Sieghart (2016)
BAITING THE RUSSIAN BEAR
With Mary Ann Sieghart in the chair, Peter Frankopan, Marina Litvinenko and Edward Lucas look at the historical background to the rapidly re-emerging cold war. From the Napoleonic Wars to the Second World War and beyond, through to the current escalating tensions, they explain why the West has traditionally had such a fraught relationship with Russia.

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16 min
March 10, 2021 42. Gareth Davies (2017)
AFRICAN-AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS
In this talk to senior school pupils, Dr Gareth Davies explains what ‘Jim Crow’ was, and what sustained it before examining what destabilised and finally destroyed it. He finishes by discussing what replaced ‘Jim Crow’ and shows evidence of progress.

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39 min
March 08, 2021 41. Dave Allan (2018)
THE AGINCOURT ARCHER
Experimental archaeologist Dave Allan discusses the daily life of an English longbowman from his training to the skills needed. Drawing upon real artefacts from different bows to arrowheads, this offers a compelling insight.

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35 min
March 05, 2021 40. Emma Smith (2019)
Shakespeare, a genius and prophet whose timeless works encapsulate the human condition like no others. A writer whose vision, originality and literary mastery were second to none. Professor Emma Smith debunks these common perceptions of the Bard and instead introduces an intellectually, theatrically and ethically exciting writer who treated topics such as individual agency, privacy, politics and celebrity in surprisingly modern ways.
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33 min