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In June, Kate Williams will be touring her live show, The Truth about Royal Women: Secrets and Scandals, Politics and Power. Buy tickets now via nothird.co.uk with dates in Shrewsbury, Lichfield, Coventry, Salford and Exeter.

Five new dates in York, Edinburgh, Chester, Guildford and Nottingham have been added for Suzannah Lipscomb and Kate Williams’ live tour of To Kill a Queen! Buy tickets now via fane.co.uk.

Michael Scott’s new book, Themistocles: The Rise and Fall of Athens’s Naval Mastermind, examining the life of the Athenian statesman was published on Tuesday 3rd February. Buy now here.

Helen Carr will present this week’s episode of Great Lives on Monday 2nd February, helping to unpack to life of Roman general, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa. Listen from 3pm on BBC Radio 4 and catch up on BBC Sounds.

On Sunday 1st February, Angela Rippon will appear on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg. Watch at 9am on BBC One.

On Saturday 31st January Kate Williams will appear in the documentary, The Assassinations of Queen Victoria from 8:30pm on Channel 5.

Kate will also appear on Channel 5’s Britain’s Worst Weather Disasters on Sunday 1st February at 6:30pm.

Mary-Ann Ochota is presenting Ancient Ways: The Ridgeway, exploring what’s often known as Britain’s oldest road, connecting Wiltshire to Buckinghamshire. Available from Thursday 29th January on History Hit.

Dr Sian William will appear on Great Lives on Monday 26th January to nominate Anna Freud, daughter of Sigmund and considered by many to be the founder of psychoanalytic child psychology. Listen from 3pm on BBC Radio 4.

Jennie Bond will appear in Secrets of the Royal Traditions on Saturday 24th January, exploring the deep-rooted bond between the monarch and their military forces. Watch from 8:25pm on Channel 5.

Ben Garrod explores the ethics of pet cloning, the limits of genetics and what it truly means to love an animal in Cloning Jack. It airs on Wednesday 21st January at 3pm on BBC Radio 4 and is the Radio Times’ Pick of the Day.