Lidos • Convict Transportation from India • National Theatre of Wales • Aerofilms Photographic Library [audio 28min]

Sue Cook and the "Making History" team answer listeners' historical queries and celebrate the way in which we all 'make' history. 1) Dylan Winter visited London Fields lido in Hackney, which is due to reopen this summer, and Saltdean lido near Brighton. "Making History" consulted Professor Fred Gray at the University of Sussex and the writer and environmentalist Ken Worpole. Professor Gray is Dean of the Sussex Institute at the University of Sussex and has an ongoing interest in seaside architecture. 2) Dr Clare Anderson at Leicester University talks about a little known but long-lasting colonial policy, transporting convicts from the Indian subcontinent to various places around the Pacific — Singapore, Burma, Mauritius and the Andaman Islands — from the 1780s until as late as 1939. 3) Listener Lynne Ferguson came across an old newspaper which had a photo of her late father working in the costume department of the National Theatre of Wales in Llangollen. Lynne approached the programme to find out more about a theatrical establishment she had never heard of. 4) Listener Chris Mawson contacted the programme to nominate the aerial photographic library he runs as a 'Hidden Treasure'.