Chalke Talk

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Chalke Talk episodes

October 19, 2021 139. Charlie Higson, Ben Macintyre & Charles Cummings (2017)
Spies and Secret Agents: In Fiction and Real Life

Charlie Higson is the best-selling author of the Young Bond series of novels, and Ben Macintyre the author of a number of best-selling books about real spies of World War II and the Cold War. Here they come together with spy novelist Charlie Cumming to discuss secret agents, real and imaginary, in a highly entertaining feast of furtiveness for all the family.

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1 hr 4 min
October 18, 2021 137. James Heneage (2017)
The Fall of Constantinople: The Greatest Siege in History
In 1453 the hordes of Islam are at the walls of Constantinople. The fate of all Europe hangs on a heroic garrison who’d answered the call of the last Roman Emperor. Would their courage be enough? James Heneage tells the story of the most thrilling siege in history and explains why catastrophe in 1453 turned into eventual triumph for the West.
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54 min
October 13, 2021 136. Natalie Haynes (2019)
Troy Story
Star of BBC Radio 4, Natalie Haynes brings her unique combination of ancient history and stand-up comedy to the story of the Trojan War. The women whose lives the war affected largely remained in the shadows, from the Amazon warrior, Penthesilea, to the priestess who foresaw the war, Cassandra. These women will be returned to their rightful place: the centre of the story.
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57 min
October 11, 2021 135. James Hawes (2018)
The Shortest History of Germany

What is it about Germany? Lying at the heart of Europe, the story of the German peoples is an epic one of empires, wars and an extraordinarily rich culture. Internationally best-selling writer James Hawes gives a thrilling ride through German history from Julius Caesar to Angela Merkel and answers the eternal question: are the Germans really us, or them?

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35 min
October 08, 2021 134. Max Hastings (2014)
Catastrophe: Europe Goes to War, 1914

Journalist, editor and acclaimed author Sir Max Hastings tells the story of how Europe went to war in 1914 precipitating the first of the twentieth century’s great tragedies. He challenges the view of some modern historians that British participation was unnecessary and concludes with the Christmas truces when the struggle had lapsed into the stalemate which was to last the next four years.

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48 min
October 06, 2021 133. Phil Harding (2019)
Along the Line: A Life in Archaeology

Phil Harding is one of Britain’s best-loved and known archaeologists – a stalwart of the hugely successful Time Team and a man with a long and celebrated career. Here he reviews his own archaeological path and place it within developments as archaeology has become an accepted profession in its own right.

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51 min
October 04, 2021 132. John Hamilton (2019)
Dunkirk Veteran

The remarkable 101-year-old John Hamilton discusses his extraordinarily varied military career with Major General Andrew Cumming. Over the course of 25 years, he was evacuated from Dunkirk, worked as an instructor at the Recce Corps Training Centre in Catterick, took the German surrender in Norway, commanded the A Squadron of the King’s Dragoon Guards in Libya and served with the Arab Legion in Jordan as a major.

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43 min
October 01, 2021 131. Peter Ginn & Alex Langlands (2017)
Full Steam Ahead: How the Railways Made Britain

After their hugely popular BBC TV series, Alex Langlands and Peter Ginn talk about Britain’s railways from their birth to their heyday and beyond, showing how steam locomotives shaped the emergence of the country as a world power and how the railways changed and affected the lives of us all.

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49 min
September 29, 2021 130. Julian Glover (2017)
Man of Iron: Thomas Telford and the Building of Britain

Thomas Telford was a shepherd boy who changed the world with his revolutionary engineering and whose genius we still benefit from today. Julian Glover’s original portrait of the great engineer covers decades of gloriously obsessive, prodigiously productive energy, building churches, canals, bridges and the backbone of our national road network.

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1 hr 2 min
September 27, 2021 129. David Gilmour (2019)
The British in India: Three Centuries of Ambition and Experience
Distinguished historian David Gilmour traces the lives of hitherto unknown British men and women in India. They include soldiers, officials, businessmen, doctors and missionaries, planters and engineers, together with children, wives and sisters. He describes their work and their extraordinarily varied interactions with the native populations, painting a highly original portrait of three centuries of British-Indian history.

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46 min