🎧 Maud West, the Original Miss Marple with Susannah Stapleton
Archive of Dan Snow's History Hit 🎧 • 21m
Maud West, operated her own detective agency during the Golden Age of crime in the period after World War One. She used all manner of disguises and tactics to gather information for her clients and to subvert the expected roles for women in this period. Producer: Peter Curry
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🎧 Max Eisen: Surviving Auschwitz
Max Eisen was only 15 when he and his family were taken from their Hungarian home to the infamous Auschwitz Concentration Camp during the Second World War. All of his relatives were killed;only Max survived to see VE Day and eventual liberation. 75 years on from being liberated, he talks about th...
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🎧 A Short History of the Bank of England
As the UK's bond market has suffered its biggest fall in decades and the pound has reached its lowest ever price against the US dollar, Dan talks to Dr Nuno Palma, a senior lecturer and associate professor in economics at the University of Manchester about the Bank of England. Dr Palma explains i...
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🎧 Max Hastings on the Humanity Behind...
Dan sits down with Max Hastings to talk about the humanity behind warfare, and other wide ranging topics.
