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| Elizabethan Subjects | ...JUSTIN CHAMPION presents a series about life in Elizabethan England.... |
| Killing The King | ...Professor JUSTIN CHAMPION, who has been fascinated by the trial of Charles I ever since he was a teenager, pieces together new research which re-examines the archives surrounding this most important of events in English history - the only time when a British King has been publicly beheaded.... |
| King's Nosebleed, The | ...Historian JUSTIN CHAMPION tells the story of the 'saving' of Protestantism in England in 1688 and 1689 by the invited invasion of William of Orange and his revolutionary ousting of King James who wasn't helped by his unfortunate bleeding nose. Many of the institutions we take for granted - parliamentary democracy, religious toleration, the public sphere, the rise of modern science, even the origins of the Bank of England - were the product of the crisis of 1688-89 and these years mark one of the key moments of Britain's transformation to modernity. Remembered with sectarian intensity in Ireland, elsewhere, the Glorious Revolution hardly features in the popular memory. What have we forgotten and why?... |
| Long View, The | ...Jonathan Freedland, with the help of historian JUSTIN CHAMPION, actor John Sessions and Don Horrocks of the Evangelical Alliance, takes the long view of the tensions between moral and religious outrage and freedom of expression.... |
| What Are Friends For? | ...JUSTIN CHAMPION considers the notion of friendship from life in antiquity to the present day.... |
| Word Of Mouth | ...With Michael Rosen. Historian JUSTIN CHAMPION asks whether it really is good to talk and suggests we switch off our mobiles and embark upon a linguistic detox.... |