Personal stories of lives linked to history.
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5. Serving The Community
Hear from Wiltshire resident Simon Rowe and former police sergeant Richard Goodman who helped keep Salisbury people safe.
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4. The Journalists
Emma Volney and Francesca Ebel helped to tell this story and reflect on it's impact on a close-knit community.In 2018, Francesca was working as a journalist in Moscow and couldn’t…
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3. Keeping Salisbury Safe
Authorities move to minimise spread and contamination of the nerve agent. Hear from Tracy Daszkiewicz who was director of public health for Wiltshire Council in 2018 and was respon…
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2. Medical Lifesavers
A skilled team battled to save the lives of the Skripals, who'd been poisoned by a deadly nerve agent.Featuring discussion with Dr James Haslam, Consultant in Anaesthesia and Inten…
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1. John Sweeney
Freelance Journalist John gives his perspective from Ukraine looking back at the events in Salisbury.
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5. The Future
Anita is joined by 1972 Lioness Jeannie Allott and Tom Garry, women's football reporter for The Telegraph, to explore what's next for women's football and what obstacles stand in t…
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4. Goalkeepers
Siobhan Chamberlain and Sue Whyatt describe their experiences as goalkeepers for the Lionesses with Anita Asante, sharing stories of motherhood, careers and muddy pitches.Presenter…
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3. Players
Lionesses Lynda Hale, a 1972 goal scorer and Manchester City's Esme Morgan sit down with Anita Asante to explore how much the women's game has changed.From overnights in train stat…
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2. Role Models
Anita Asante is joined by 1972 Lioness player Wendy and Calum Best, who is now taking his football heritage and using it to help promote the women's game.Find out how much the wome…
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1. A Woman’s Game
Anita Asante is joined by Patricia Gregory and Elsie Cook looking back on the first ever official women's international football match for both England and Scotland. Patricia organ…
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S2.4. Impact and identity
Rupal Rajani explores heritage and identity in a frank and open conversation with podcaster Shivani Dave and comedian Nimisha Odedra, both with Ugandan and Kenyan Asian heritage.He…
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S2.3. Making a home
Rupal Rajani explores why Leicester found itself a city at the centre of the story and talks to the Mayor of Leicester Sir Peter Soulsby and local businessman, Dharmesh Lakhani.Lei…
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S2.2. A new way to live
Rupal Rajani has a powerful and emotional discussion with Stephen Poulton who worked in a resettlement camp at RAF Stradishall in Suffolk, and Fiyaz Mughal, whose family passed thr…
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S2.1. An order to leave
Ugandan Asian presenter Rupal Rajani talks to journalist and author Yasmin Alibhai-Brown and playwright Chandni Mistry in a powerful and emotional discussion about exile.Yasmin des…
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S1.5. ‘I carry a piece of home’
Falkland islander Tamsin McLeod describes growing up around land-mines, the legacy of the war and how the island is now making the most of its resilient and multicultural culture.
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S1.4. A Widow's Grief
Jay discusses her love and determination to honour her late husband Gary’s wishes.Lance Corporal Gary Bingley was killed at the battle of Goose Green, aged 24.Because Gary wishes w…
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S1.3. Paratrooper PTSD
Tam Noble describes being in the Battle of Mount Longdon, one of the fiercest and final battles of the war.PTSD wasn’t acknowledged at the time and it was many years later that a v…
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S1.2. The 'Love Boat'
Keith, her civilian crew and a squad of paratroopers, headed into an unknown and dangerous conflict.Hear a surprising story of dodging bombs, transporting Argentinian POW’s and wor…
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S1.1. The Falklands, Strictly and other battles
Ex-Royal Marine JJ Chalmers, his BBC Strictly dance partner Amy Dowden and historian Professor Helen Parr discuss the Falklands War.
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Welcome to My Moment In History
People whose lives have been intertwined with history, share their stories.