Edmund Hillary reaches the top
On this day in 2008 the New Zealand mountaineer Edmund Hillary died aged 88. He will always be remembered for the 1952 conquest of Everest,... Read More
JRR Tolkien, Lord of the Rings
To listen to this post, click here – On this day in 1973 the author and academic JRR Tolkien died. For most of his life... Read More
Helen Keller comes out of the dark
On this day in 1880 the American writer and activist Helen Keller was born in Alabama. At the age of nineteen months, Keller suffered a... Read More
Charles Dickens, father of the serialised story
On this day in 1870 the English writer Charles Dickens died. The man who wrote the best-selling novel of all time, (A Tale of Two... Read More