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  • Chalke Talk the podcast from the Chalke Valley History Festival

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Episodes
  • Simon Winder

    Simon Winder
    Mar 14 2022

    Lotharingia: A Personal History of Europe's Lost Country


    In 843 AD the territory of Emperor Charlemagne was divided between his three surviving grandsons. One inherited the area now known as France, another Germany and the third received the piece in between: Lotharingia, a huge swath of land that stretched from the mouth of the Rhine to the Alps. Simon Winder explains how the dynamic between these three great zones has dictated much of our subsequent fate.


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  • Jim Storr

    Jim Storr
    Mar 4 2022

    The Anglo-Saxon Conquest of England, Wessex and the Chalke Valley


    We speak English today; not Celtic, Latin, nor Norman French. England is England because of the Anglo-Saxon conquest. Yet we know very little about how it happened. This talk describes astonishing new evidence, hidden in plain sight, spread across the whole length and breadth of England. Some of it in the Chalke Valley near Salisbury.


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  • William Sieghart

    William Sieghart
    Feb 23 2022

    The Poetry Pharmacy: Tried-and-True Prescriptions for the Mind, Heart and Soul


    In the years since he first had the idea of prescribing short, powerful poems for all manner of spiritual ailments, William Sieghart, founder of National Poetry Day, has taken his Poetry Pharmacy around the length and breadth of Britain. Here he speaks about the most essential poems in his dispensary: those which have repeatedly shown themselves to work.


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