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Historian Amanda Vickery explores the kind of homes the British struggled to create in India during the age of empire.
Historian Amanda Vickery presents a series which reveals the hidden history of home over 400 years. She draws on first-hand accounts from letters and diaries, many of which have never been heard before. Including songs which have been specially recorded for the series.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½s were exposed to huge forces of change in the 19th and 20th century, responding to industrialisation, pollution and the imperial mission. Prof Vickery explores how they remained idealised havens in a heartless, dirty world.
Prof Vickery explores the kind of homes the British struggled to create in India, using the diaries and letters of colonial settlers.
Readers: Deborah Findlay, John Sessions, Madeleine Brolly and Simon Tcherniak.
Singers: Gwyneth Herbert and Thomas Guthrie, with David Owen Norris at the keyboard.
A Loftus production for ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4.
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- Wed 4 Nov 2009 15:45ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
- Fri 15 Feb 2013 14:15ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
- Wed 21 Jan 2015 14:15ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
- Thu 22 Jan 2015 00:15ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
- Wed 1 Mar 2017 14:15ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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