Ontelly

Making History - 14/04/2009

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Vanessa Collingridge presents the series exploring ordinary people's links with the past. Listener Bridget Long sets out to confirm a family story - that her late father played oboe in the premiere of a piece of work by Benjamin Britten while being held in a German POW camp. Archaeologists at the University of Liverpool reveal how they know what Britons ate before the introduction of farming.