People of 1381 CI Dr Helen Lacey of Mansfield College, University of Oxford, appeared on a special edition of BBC Radio Four's The Long View on 22 June 2020 to discuss with Jonathan Freedland the unexpected impact of the Black Death. Helen's interview kicked off a series of Long View programmes forming part of the Radio 4 Rethink season. As the country looked for the best ways to recover from the Covid-19 pandemic and examined how it might change society for the better in its aftermath, Jonathan and his guests considered national crises in our past and ask how those in power at the time sought to rethink their future.

You can hear Helen's interview here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000k7j8