π§ The Women of Westminster
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Today marks 100 years since Nancy Astor, the first woman to take her seat in the House of Commons, was elected. Rachel Reeves, the current Labour candidate for Leeds West and a former member of the Shadow Cabinet, chats to Dan about the history of women in Westminster. She highlights the challenges they faced in the past, the remarkable achievements they oversaw and the issues we still need to address today.
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π§ St Paul's, the Blitz and THAT Photo
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π§ Stalin and the Ukraine Famine
Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum is an American journalist and Pulitzer Prizeβwinning author who has written extensively about communism and the development of civil society in Central and Eastern Europe.
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π§ Kokoda: Australia's Thermopylae
After the Fall of Singapore in February 1942, the focus of the Pacific War moved closer to Australia. Japanese forces bombed Darwin and began to launch attacks on Papua New Guinea, with a view to capturing its capital Port Moresby.
If the Japanese had captured that city, they would have been abl...