2026-03-16
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After civil war, regicide and Cromwell's Republic, the monarchy returned.
But Britain would never be the same.
I'm Professor Susanna Lipscomb, and this month on Not Just the Tudors,
we're transported back to the age of restoration royalty.
from Charles II to Queen Anne and the birth of the empire.
Join me on not just the Tudors from History Hit, wherever you get your podcasts.
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Why Muslims worldwide are being debanked by Oliver Bullough.
Read by Ellis James.
Hamish Wilson lives a few miles away from me in a cosy farmhouse in the damp hills of mid-Wales.
He makes good coffee, tells great stories and is an excellent host.
Every summer...
Dozens of Somali guests visit Wilson's farm as part of a wonderfully wholesome project set up to celebrate their nation's culture and to honour his father's Second World War service with a Somali comrade-in-arms.
Inadvertently, however, the project has revealed something else,
a deep unfairness in today's global financial system that not only threatens to ruin the Somalis' holidays,
but also excludes marginalised communities from global banking services on a huge scale.