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Podcast: Arts & Ideas
Episode: The 2020 Wolfson History Prize: Toby Green, Marion Turner, John Barton
Description: New takes on Chaucer, the Bible and African trading - Rana Mitter presents the first of 2 prograrmmes featuring 3 of the historians shortlisted for this year's history writing prize.Marion Turner has written Chaucer: A European Life
Toby Green is the author of A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution
John Barton is nominated for A History of the Bible: The Book and Its FaithsA second programme will be broadcast on Tues May 19th hearing from the other shortlisted authors
David Abulafia The Boundless...