- [2.30PM]
- JULIE SUMMERS
- STRANGER IN THE HOUSE
- QUARTERHOUSE
- Over 4 million ex-service men were demobilised between 1945 and 1947. These men, changed by injury or experience, returned to a Britain that had also adjusted in their absence.
In Stranger in the House, Julie Summers has interviewed over 100 women who were left to cope at home without their menfolk and explains how the longed-for homecomings were sometimes difficult for all concerned. While some stories are incredibly sad, others are joyous, but all are honest, very affecting and together offer a unique insight into what is often an unspoken history. - £6 / £5 CONC. / £4 FRIENDS
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- [4.00PM]
- ANDREW ROBERTS
- THE STORM OF WAR
- QUARTERHOUSE
- Recognised by many as possibly one the world's most important historians, Andrew Roberts will be speaking about his new book The Storm of War. The Second World War lasted for 2,174 days, cost £1.5 trillion and claimed the lives of over 50 million people. But why did it take the course that it did? The Storm of War gives a succinct but dramatic account of the struggle that engulfed the world between 1939 and 1945 and, at the last, a convincing answer to that question.
- £6 / £5 CONC. / £4 FRIENDS
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- [5.30PM]
- COUNTDOWN'S SUSIE DENT presents...
- ...1500 YEARS OF NEW WORDS
- QUARTERHOUSE
- Susie Dent takes us on a brief journey through the last 1500 years of English, as seen through the mirror of new words. All words have after all been new at some point in their lives, even if we tend to think of them today as being frivolous fly-by-nights or boardroom buzzwords. Coinages like 'alchemy', 'superstition', 'assassin', 'salt of the earth', and 'bankster' offer as eloquent a mirror of the times as any historian could hope to find.
- £8 / £7 CONC. / £6 FRIENDS
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