Woad • Nova Scotia • Arthur Mee's 'Children's Newspaper' • Oldest Operating Theatre in Europe • Anglo-Norman Dictionary [audio 28min]

Sue Cook and the team answer listeners' historical queries and celebrate the way in which we all 'make' history. 1)"Making History" visited Ian and Bernadette Howard on their farm in Norfolk to find out about the rediscovery of an old industry - the production of woad. 2) Listener Andy Alston contacted the programme to find out more about the wife of an ancestor who was born around 1820 on Sable Island, a crescent-shaped island of shifting sand some 200 miles off the coast of Nova Scotia. 3) Following several letters, calls and emails to the programme,"Making History" consulted author Maisie Robson about the history of The Children's Newspaper, which was founded by the journalist Arthur Mee in 1919 and published weekly until 1965. 4) Dylan Winter visited the recently refurbished Old Operating Theatre, Museum and Herb Garret near London Bridge. 5) Professor David Trotter from the University of Aberystwyth discusses the new online Anglo-Norman dictionary.