David Swatling tells the fascinating life story of Saint Frances of Assisi, with the help of Valerie Martin, author of the book “Salvation: Scenes from the Life of St. Frances”, […]
Daily Archives: 7th November 2000
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David Swatling meets author Barry Unsworth (1930-2012), one of the great contemporary masters of historical fiction. He’s written about medieval traveling players, 18th century slave traders and the fall of […]
Eugène Dubois was a Dutch doctor and anatomist whose ambition was to prove that evolution was not just a theory. He wanted to find fossils from an extinct creature that […]