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Episode summary: Join 5x15 for an online event with the acclaimed historian Sarah Churchwell in conversation with Today presenter Justin Webb to delve into American myth-making and denialism past and present. In THE WRATH TO COME: Gone with the Wind and the Lies America Tells, historian Sarah Church...

Episode summary: In 1895, Blanche Chesebrough moved into a small apartment in Gramercy Park, in New York City. She brought a portrait of her parents, a vase for flowers, and her piano. She later said, “music had been my one absorbing interest,” and that she wasn’t interested in getting married. But...

Episode summary: Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the largest and arguably the most astonishing religious structure on Earth, built for Suryavarman II in the 12th Century in modern-day Cambodia. It is said to have more stone in it than the Great Pyramid of Giza, and much of the surface is intricately...

Episode summary: Limelight is the best podcast for thrilling audio drama box sets. Subscribe now on BBC Sounds. Narrator: Becky Ripley

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Episode summary: There is a cave in the middle of the Mojave Desert called Devil’s Hole. It’s home to a small iridescent blue fish, called the Devil’s Hole pupfish - and you can’t find them anywhere else in the world. There are fences, cameras, and motion sensors for security. In 2016, three men ram...

Episode summary: Why a more peaceful India requires its people to become more like khichri than a thali.