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How to Remember

Episode 28 of 3

Sam Edwards argues that we should think again about how and what we memorialise, including wars and other major events in our national history.

Sam Edwards argues that we should think again about how and what we memorialise - including wars and other major events in our national history.

Sam is a lecturer in American History at Manchester Metropolitan University, and has long been fascinated with memorials. He tells the story of how, as a young man, he would journey around the Suffolk countryside visiting the many memorials to the US 8th Air Force, and the effect it had on him.

Producer: Giles Edwards.

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  • Wed 6 Nov 2013 20:45
  • Tue 8 May 2018 12:04

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