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January 12, 2012 Joe Lunn - With Freddie Knowles to the coast
7 min
January 12, 2012 Joe Lunn - Cobbler at Public Benefit shoe company
15 min
January 12, 2012 Joe Lunn - Sheep's head in the set pot
11 min
January 10, 2012 Sylvia Cowling - A've just come to see 't bairn
5 min
January 10, 2012 Sylvia Cowling - World War Two blackout
12 min
January 10, 2012 Sylvia Cowling - Drink To Me Only
12 min
January 10, 2012 Sylvia Cowling - Playing down the end
11 min
November 22, 2011 Pullman Porters. Rising From The Rails. Part One.
Larry Tye tells the story of America's Pullman porters from their early days when freed slaves were given jobs as sleeping car attendants by George Pullman through to their creation of a union and eventual leadership of the the black middle class.
27 min
November 22, 2011 Pullman Porters. Part Two.
Larry Tye continues with the history of the Pullman porters telling how they helped create the civil rights movement which led ultimately to America's first black President. (Recorded in December 2008.)
25 min
July 11, 2011 Isambard Kingdom Brunel - The Intemperate Engineer.
Railway historian Adrian Vaughan talks to Howard Benson about his latest book which analyses Brunel's life and work using material which has never been published before.
26 min

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