Kate Fleet
Director of the Skilliter Centre for Ottoman Studies and Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge
2 episodes
Appears in multiple episodes with: Diarmaid MacCulloch
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The Siege of Malta, 1565
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the fierce contest for Malta, which the Ottomans tried to prise from the Knights Hospitaller who they they had already driven from Rhodes in 1522.
11 January 2018
Also featuring: Helen Nicholson, Diarmaid MacCulloch
The Battle of Lepanto
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the sea battle of Lepanto, in which the Christian forces of the Holy League defeated the Ottoman fleet of Selim II in 1571.
12 November 2015
Also featuring: Diarmaid MacCulloch, Noel Malcolm