The History Programme explores a new historical topic each week with insightful analysis by presenter Jack Staples-Butler, a URY News veteran and history enthusiast. Visiting a new place on the timeline of human history every episode, the programme will feature investigation and explanation of diverse epochs, movements and personalities. From the late Roman Republic and the assassination of Julius Caesar, to Henry VIII and the Reformation, to the Second World War and the Swinging Sixties, The History Programme takes listeners to the heart of enthralling and divisive historical arguments and debates with the perspectives of experts and eminent scholars living and dead. History is the constant dialogue of past and present - come and join the discussion.
All a man's life, only to say "One."' One hour will never be enough to even do justice to the incredible music coming from the four corners of the world, but I hope to give you a weekly taste of the brilliant world music open to us. If it's not in English, you bet I'll be playing it
The URY Panto this year, which can be revealed as Oliver Twist, or should I say we are going to put our Twist on Oliver Twist. (No the jokes don't get better from here)
Written by: Alex Light, Imogen Fodor and Georgie Norgate, Andy Durant and Naomi Gildert, Katy Eloise, Stephen Clarke and Adam Brain, Rebecca Saw, Cat Saove and Peter Rogers
Voice Actors: Katy Eloise, Qumarth Jash, Henry Partridge, Alex Light, Peter Rogers, Stephen Clarke, Andy Durant, Adam Brain, Rebecca Saw, Imogen Fodor, Mat Carrington-Mackenzie and Nick Upton
Directed and Produced by Joseph Willis