5 November 2015
Episode 179
15 minutes
Books: Mark Mason reviews three non-fiction works: one that investigates how we started to give new meanings to old words, another looking at the enduring appeal of royalty in Britain and finally a collection of 125 era-defining letters from across history.
5 November 2015
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