ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½

Use ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½.com or the new ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ App to listen to ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ podcasts, Radio 4 and the World Service outside the UK.

Episode details

Radio 4,4 mins

Why great walls are a bit of a mystery

Radio 4 in Four

Available for over a year

Historian Tom Holland looks back at the successes and failures of wall-building from Offa's Dyke to Hadrian's Wall and asks whether they work more as statements of power than as insurmountable barriers between people. Presented by Kirsty Wark. First broadcast on Start the Week, 27 February 2017.

Programme Website
More episodes