Bohemia and Central Europe fans - are you sitting comfortably?

[Pan Zagloba]

Today's In Our Time - a BBC radio discussion programme for academics and other pointy-heads - is apparently about the history of Central Europe from Huss to the present day. The panel includes Norman Davies, the writer of the vast "God's Playground, a history of Poland". The trailer sounded fascinating.

If you want to listen to it, you have three options:

1. Listen to Radio 4 at 2130 BST today.

2. Listen (using RealPlayer, sadly) to the BBC's web broadcast at 2130 BST today:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/live_feed.shtml

3. Listen (using RealPlayer) to the archived show that should be on the BBC's "Listen Again" page for the next seven days:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/progs/audio/ram_inourtime.ram

Zagloba

 

[BiB]

History fans should be thrilled!

 

[pithorr]

Now we can realize how BiB get such extraterrential counter amount

 

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I assume this relates only to UK citizens...Too bad nothing like that will be seen in USA....

 

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BiB-like post: That sounds fascinating.

On a related topic, has anyone read the book mentioned above. I've heard of it, and was curious...

O.

 

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Originally posted by O. Cromwell
BiB-like post: That sounds fascinating.

On a related topic, has anyone read the book mentioned above. I've heard of it, and was curious...

O.

You mean Norman Davies' "God's Playground"?
Well written and good if you are interested in XXth cen. Poland. Davies seems to lost his skills when older times come ahead. His understanding of the times of First Commonwealth (16th cen. to 1795) is rather bad and lacking of many facts but this is the best book about polish history written in english which is known to me.

 

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so how was the program?