Magna Carta series on BBC Radio 4

This week members of the Magna Carta Project will appear in a four-part series on Magna Carta broadcast on BBC Radio 4. The series, beginning on Monday 5^th January at 09.00, opens with an episode on ‘The Road to Runnymede’. It will feature MCP Principal Investigator Nicholas Vincent and Co-investigators David Carpenter and Louise Wilkinson, as well as British Library lead curator and MCP member Claire Breay. The team will discuss with host Melvyn Bragg the background to the Charter. Programmes 2, 3 and 4 will be broadcast on the following three days. 

You can find out more about the series, and access podcasts after the programmes' broadcast, on the BBC website.

Tournaments and Chivalry: Hugh Doherty on 'Making History'

Tournament scene from BL Add. MS. 12228 ff.214v-215

Hugh Doherty, of the Magna Carta Project, made an appearance this week on BBC Radio 4's Making History (22/07/14). The programme, presented by Helen Castor, featured a discussion of medieval tournaments and their modern recreation. Hugh explained how tournaments evolved through the Middle Ages and how they were connected with the ideals of chivalry. 

You can listen to the programme via the BBC website here, or download it as a podcast.