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Britain on the Bottle (4) |
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Thu Jul 22 2010 |
3.45 pm
Radio 4 |
presenter:
Mark Whitaker |
producer:
Mark Whitaker |
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The 1872 Licensing Act and the Challenge of Temperance At the General Election of 1872 one of the most divisive issues between the parties was drink. Mark Whitaker shows how the temperance movement had got a grip on political life.
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136 :
Britain on the Bottle (3) |
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broadcast:
Wed Jul 21 2010 |
3.45 pm
Radio 4 |
presenter:
Mark Whitaker |
producer:
Mark Whitaker |
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The Beer Act, 1830 Continuing his series on the politics of alcohol, Mark Whitaker explains why in 1830 the British government thought easier access to beer would solve the problem of drunkenness.
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135 :
Britain on the Bottle (2) |
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broadcast:
Tue Jul 20 2010 |
3.45 pm
Radio 4 |
presenter:
Mark Whitaker |
producer:
Mark Whitaker |
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The Gin Act, 1736 Continuing his narrative history series Mark Whitaker explores the eighteenth century Gin Craze, the response to it of Defoe and Fielding, and what the authorities did.
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134 :
Britain on the Bottle (1) |
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broadcast:
Mon Jul 19 2010 |
3.45 pm
Radio 4 |
presenter:
Mark Whitaker |
producer:
Mark Whitaker |
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King James 1: Drunkenness “is not one sin, but all sins”, said a preacher in 1624. Mark Whitaker begins his history series on the politics of alcohol with King James I’s campaign against it.
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132 :
Geo-engineering the Climate |
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broadcast:
Wed Mar 10 2010 |
9.00 pm
Radio 4 |
presenter:
Mark Whitaker |
producer:
Mike Hally |
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Following December's climate conference in Copenhagen the world is now committed to holding global warming to a maximum of 2 degrees centigrade -- in theory. But without a binding treaty to curb carbon emissions, there's growing interest in "geoengineering" as a kind of insurance policy against the possibility that the worst predictions of some climate scientists come true. Mark Whitaker reports on research in key centres in Britain and the USA into ways of removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere or reducing the amount of sunlight reaching the earth -- and on the massive technical, financial and political hurdles they face.
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131 :
Textbook Diplomacy (2) |
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broadcast:
Wed Feb 3 2010 |
10.00 am
World Service |
presenter:
Mark Whitaker |
producer:
Mark Whitaker |
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In Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia historians are struggling to produce school textbooks that will help overcome deep-seated misunderstandings and hatreds between neighbouring states. This week -- Europe
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130 :
Textbook Diplomacy (1) |
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broadcast:
Wed Jan 27 2010 |
10.00 am
World Service |
presenter:
Mark Whitaker |
producer:
Mark Whitaker |
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In Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia historians are struggling to produce school textbooks that will help overcome deep-seated misunderstandings and hatreds between neighbouring states. This week - South Africa
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129 :
Poppies are Red, Cornflowers are Blue |
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Sun Nov 8 2009 |
11.45 am
Radio 4 |
presenter:
Mark Whitaker |
producer:
Mike Hally |
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| The fourth in our series of annual ¼ -hour vignettes for Remembrance Sunday.
It's not just how the Poppy became the symbol of remembrance in Britain - though that is a fascinating story, rarely told in full - but also a deeper analysis of why it rapidly became such a strong and enduring symbol, to the point where some fear it is becoming over-exploited. Plus a look at France's rather less ubiquitous flower of remembrance, the blue cornflower, and through these symbols an insight into the two countries' different approaches to remembering those who have died in conflicts past.
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126 :
The Manuscript Hunter |
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broadcast:
Wed May 13 2009 |
11.00 am
Radio 4 |
presenter:
Mark Whitaker |
producer:
Mark Whitaker |
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Over the past twenty years the archives of many of the U.K.’s most important living writers have ended up in America, bought for the University of Texas at Austin by Thomas Staley. Mark Whitaker profiles a remarkable and controversial man, and reports on efforts to stop the continuing export of our literary heritage.
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125 :
Anthropology at War |
first
broadcast:
Fri Apr 24 2009 |
11.02 am
Radio 4 |
presenter:
Mark Whitaker |
producer:
Mark Whitaker |
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The US Army has introduced a scheme which ‘embeds’ anthropologists with military units in Iraq and Afghanistan : the aim is to make military decisions more ‘culturally informed’, but the scheme’s caused a furore in the academic community.
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