James Davey
Lecturer in Naval and Maritime History at the University of Exeter
2 episodes
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The Battle of Trafalgar
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Nelson's decisive naval victory in 1805, long celebrated in Britain and remembered as a watershed in Spain yet overshadowed in France by Austerlitz.
2 December 2021
Also featuring: Marianne Czisnik, Kenneth Johnson
The Fighting Temeraire
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss The Fighting Temeraire, JMW Turner's painting of a famous ship from the Battle of Trafalgar on its way to a breakers' yard on the Thames.
10 November 2016
Also featuring: Susan Foister, David Blayney Brown