List of In Our Time programmes
In Our Time is a radio discussion programme exploring a wide variety of historical, scientific, cultural, religious and philosophical topics, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in the United Kingdom since 1998 and hosted by Melvyn Bragg. Since 2011, all episodes have been available to download as individual podcasts.[1]
Programmes
[edit]1998–1999
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Title | Contributors and positions held at time of broadcast |
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15 October 1998 | War in the 20th Century |
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22 October 1998 | Politics in the 20th Century |
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29 October 1998 | Science's Revelations |
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5 November 1998 | Science in the 20th century |
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12 November 1998 | The City in the 20th Century |
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19 November 1998 | The Brain and Consciousness |
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26 November 1998 | Work in the 20th Century |
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3 December 1998 | History's relevance in the 20th century |
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10 December 1998 | Cultural rights in the 20th Century |
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17 December 1998 | The American Century |
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24 December 1998 | Neuroscience in the 20th Century |
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31 December 1998 | The British Empire's Legacy |
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7 January 1999 | Feminism |
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14 January 1999 | Genetic Engineering |
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21 January 1999 | Modern Culture |
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28 January 1999 | Ageing |
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4 February 1999 | Psychoanalysis and its Legacy |
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11 February 1999 | Language and the Mind |
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18 February 1999 | Space in Religion and Science |
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25 February 1999 | The Avant Garde's Decline and Fall in the 20th Century |
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4 March 1999 | Shakespeare and Literary Criticism |
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11 March 1999 | History as Science |
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18 March 1999 | Animal Experiments and Rights |
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25 March 1999 | Architecture in the 20th Century |
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1 April 1999 | Good and Evil |
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8 April 1999 | Writing and Political Oppression |
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15 April 1999 | Evolution |
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22 April 1999 | Fundamentalism |
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29 April 1999 | Artificial Intelligence |
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6 May 1999 | Mathematics |
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13 May 1999 | Multiculturalism |
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20 May 1999 | The Universe's Origins |
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27 May 1999 | Memory and Culture |
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3 June 1999 | Just War |
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10 June 1999 | The Monarchy |
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17 June 1999 | The Great Disruption |
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24 June 1999 | Capitalism |
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1 July 1999 | Intelligence |
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8 July 1999 | Africa |
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15 July 1999 | Truth, Lies and fiction |
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22 July 1999 | Pain |
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1999–2000
[edit]From 6 April 2000, with the discussion on "The Natural Order", the programme moved from 30 minutes to a 45-minute format.
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Title | Contributors and positions held at time of broadcast |
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23 September 1999 | Genetic Determinism |
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30 September 1999 | Maths and Storytelling |
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7 October 1999 | Utopia |
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14 October 1999 | The Nation State |
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21 October 1999 | The Individual |
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28 October 1999 | Atrocity in the 20th Century |
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4 November 1999 | Education |
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11 November 1999 | The Novel |
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18 November 1999 | Progress |
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25 November 1999 | Consciousness |
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2 December 1999 | Tragedy |
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9 December 1999 | Childhood |
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16 December 1999 | Medical Ethics |
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23 December 1999 | Prayer |
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30 December 1999 | Time |
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6 January 2000 | Climate change |
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13 January 2000 | Information Technology |
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20 January 2000 | Masculinity in Literature |
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27 January 2000 | Economic Rights |
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3 February 2000 | Republicanism |
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10 February 2000 | Goethe and the Science of the Enlightenment |
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17 February 2000 | Reading |
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24 February 2000 | Grand Unified Theory |
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2 March 2000 | Metamorphosis |
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9 March 2000 | The Age of Doubt |
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16 March 2000 | Lenin |
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23 March 2000 | Materialism and the Consumer |
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30 March 2000 | History and Understanding the Past |
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6 April 2000 | The Natural Order |
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13 April 2000 | New Wars |
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20 April 2000 | Englishness |
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27 April 2000 | Human Origins |
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4 May 2000 | Death |
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11 May 2000 | Shakespeare's Work |
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18 May 2000 | The Wars of the Roses |
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25 May 2000 | Chemical elements |
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1 June 2000 | The American Ideal |
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8 June 2000 | The Renaissance |
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15 June 2000 | Inspiration and Genius |
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22 June 2000 | Biography |
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29 June 2000 | Imagination and Consciousness |
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2000–2001
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Title | Contributors and positions held at time of broadcast |
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28 September 2000 | London |
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5 October 2000 | Hitler in History |
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12 October 2000 | The Romantics |
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19 October 2000 | Laws of Nature |
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26 October 2000 | The Tudor State |
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2 November 2000 | Evolutionary Psychology |
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9 November 2000 | Psychoanalysis and Literature |
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16 November 2000 | Nihilism |
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4 January 2001 | Gothic |
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11 January 2001 | Mathematics and Platonism |
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18 January 2001 | The Enlightenment in Britain |
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25 January 2001 | Science and Religion |
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1 February 2001 | Imperial Science |
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8 February 2001 | Humanism |
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15 February 2001 | The Restoration |
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22 February 2001 | Quantum Gravity |
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1 March 2001 | Money |
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15 March 2001 | Shakespeare's Life |
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22 March 2001 | Fossils |
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29 March 2001 | The Philosophy of Love |
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5 April 2001 | The Roman Empire's Collapse in the 5th century |
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12 April 2001 | Black Holes |
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19 April 2001 | The Glorious Revolution |
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26 April 2001 | Literary Modernism |
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3 May 2001 | Evil |
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14 June 2001 | The French Revolution's Legacy |
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21 June 2001 | The Sonnet |
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28 June 2001 | Existentialism |
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5 July 2001 | The Earth's Origins |
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12 July 2001 | Dickens |
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19 July 2001 | Byzantium |
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2001–2002
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Title | Contributors and positions held at time of broadcast |
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18 October 2001 | Democracy |
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25 October 2001 | Napoleon and Wellington |
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1 November 2001 | Confucius |
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8 November 2001 | The British Empire |
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15 November 2001 | Surrealism |
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22 November 2001 | Oceanography |
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29 November 2001 | Third Crusade |
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6 December 2001 | Oscar Wilde |
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13 December 2001 | Genetics |
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20 December 2001 | Rome and European Civilization |
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27 December 2001 | Food |
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3 January 2002 | Sensibility |
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10 January 2002 | Nuclear Physics |
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17 January 2002 | Catharism |
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24 January 2002 | Happiness |
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31 January 2002 | Yeats and Mysticism |
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7 February 2002 | The Universe's Shape |
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14 February 2002 | Anatomy |
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21 February 2002 | The Celts |
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28 February 2002 | Virtue |
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7 March 2002 | Milton |
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14 March 2002 | The Buddha |
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21 March 2002 | Marriage |
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28 March 2002 | The Artist |
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4 April 2002 | Extra Terrestrials |
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11 April 2002 | Bohemia |
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25 April 2002 | Tolstoy |
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2 May 2002 | The Physics of Reality |
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9 May 2002 | The Examined Life |
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16 May 2002 | Chaos Theory |
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23 May 2002 | Drugs |
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30 May 2002 | The Grand Tour |
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6 June 2002 | The Soul |
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13 June 2002 | The American West |
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20 June 2002 | Wagner |
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27 June 2002 | Cultural Imperialism |
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4 July 2002 | Freedom |
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11 July 2002 | Psychoanalysis and democracy |
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18 July 2002 | Heritage |
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2002–2003
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Title | Contributors and positions held at time of broadcast |
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17 October 2002 | Slavery and Empire |
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24 October 2002 | The Scientist |
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31 October 2002 | Architecture and Power |
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7 November 2002 | Human Nature |
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14 November 2002 | Victorian Realism |
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21 November 2002 | Muslim Spain |
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28 November 2002 | Imagination |
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5 December 2002 | The Enlightenment in Scotland |
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12 December 2002 | Man and Disease |
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19 December 2002 | The Calendar |
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6 February 2003 | The Epic |
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13 February 2003 | Chance and Design |
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20 February 2003 | The Lindisfarne Gospels |
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27 February 2003 | The Aztecs |
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6 March 2003 | Meteorology |
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13 March 2003 | Redemption |
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20 March 2003 | Originality |
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27 Mar 2003 | The Life of Stars |
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3 April 2003 | The Spanish Civil War |
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17 April 2003 | Proust |
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24 April 2003 | Youth |
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1 May 2003 | Roman Britain |
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8 May 2003 | The Jacobite Rebellion |
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15 May 2003 | The Holy Grail |
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22 May 2003 | Blood |
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29 May 2003 | Memory |
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5 June 2003 | The Lunar Society |
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12 June 2003 | The Art of War |
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19 June 2003 | The Aristocracy |
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26 June 2003 | The East India Company |
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3 July 2003 | Vulcanology |
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10 July 2003 | Nature |
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17 July 2003 | The Apocalypse |
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2003–2004
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Title | Contributors and positions held at time of broadcast |
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2 October 2003 | Maxwell |
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9 October 2003 | Bohemianism |
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16 October 2003 | The Schism |
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23 October 2003 | Infinity |
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30 October 2003 | Robin Hood |
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6 November 2003 | Sensation |
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13 November 2003 | Duty |
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20 November 2003 | Ageing the Earth |
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27 November 2003 | St Bartholomew's Day Massacre |
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4 December 2003 | Wittgenstein |
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11 December 2003 | The Devil |
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18 December 2003 | The Alphabet |
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26 December 2003 | Lamarck and Natural Selection |
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29 January 2004 | Cryptography |
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5 February 2004 | Thermopylae |
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12 February 2004 | The Sublime |
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19 February 2004 | Rutherford |
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26 February 2004 | The Mughal Empire |
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4 March 2004 | Dreams |
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11 March 2004 | The Norse Gods |
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25 March 2004 | Theories of Everything |
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1 April 2004 | China's Warring States period |
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8 April 2004 | The Fall |
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15 April 2004 | The Later Romantics |
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22 April 2004 | Hysteria |
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29 April 2004 | Tea |
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6 May 2004 | Heroism |
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13 May 2004 | Zero |
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20 May 2004 | Toleration |
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27 May 2004 | The Planets |
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3 June 2004 | Babylon |
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10 June 2004 | Empiricism |
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17 June 2004 | Renaissance Magic |
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24 June 2004 | Washington and the American Revolution |
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2004–2005
[edit]In 2005 listeners were invited to vote in a poll for the greatest philosopher in history. The winner was the subject of the final programme before the summer break. The result of the vote was:[2]
- Karl Marx (with 27.9% of the votes)
- David Hume (12.7%)
- Ludwig Wittgenstein (6.8%)
- Friedrich Nietzsche (6.5%)
- Plato (5.6%)
- Immanuel Kant (5.6%)
- Thomas Aquinas (4.8%)
- Socrates (4.8%)
- Aristotle (4.5%)
- Karl Popper (4.2%)
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Title | Contributors and positions held at time of broadcast |
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2 September 2004 | Pi |
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9 September 2004 | The Odyssey |
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16 September 2004 | Agincourt |
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23 September 2004 | The Origins of Life |
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30 September 2004 | Politeness |
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7 October 2004 | Sartre |
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14 October 2004 | The Han Synthesis |
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21 October 2004 | Witchcraft |
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28 October 2004 | Rhetoric |
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4 November 2004 | Electrickery |
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11 November 2004 | Zoroastrianism |
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18 November 2004 | Higgs Boson |
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25 November 2004 | The Venerable Bede |
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2 December 2004 | Jung |
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9 December 2004 | Machiavelli and the Italian City States |
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16 December 2004 | The Second Law of Thermodynamics |
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23 December 2004 | Faust |
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30 December 2004 | The Roman Republic |
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6 January 2005 | Tsar Alexander II's assassination |
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13 January 2005 | The Mind/Body Problem |
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17 February 2005 | The Cambrian Period |
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24 February 2005 | Alchemy |
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3 March 2005 | Stoicism |
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10 March 2005 | Modernist Utopias |
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17 March 2005 | Dark Energy |
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24 March 2005 | Angels |
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31 March 2005 | John Ruskin |
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7 April 2005 | Alfred and the Battle of Edington |
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14 April 2005 | Archaeology and Imperialism |
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21 April 2005 | The Aeneid |
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28 April 2005 | Perception and the Senses |
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5 May 2005 | Abelard and Heloise |
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19 May 2005 | Beauty |
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26 May 2005 | The French Revolution's Reign of Terror |
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2 June 2005 | Renaissance Maths |
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9 June 2005 | The Scriblerus Club |
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16 June 2005 | Paganism in the Renaissance |
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23 June 2005 | The KT Boundary |
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30 June 2005 | Merlin |
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7 July 2005 | Marlowe |
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14 July 2005 | Marx |
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2005–2006
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Title | Contributors and positions held at time of broadcast |
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29 September 2005 | Magnetism |
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6 October 2005 | The Field of the Cloth of Gold |
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13 October 2005 | Mammals |
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20 October 2005 | Cynicism |
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27 October 2005 | Johnson |
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3 November 2005 | Asteroids |
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10 November 2005 | Greyfriars and Blackfriars |
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17 November 2005 | Pragmatism |
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24 November 2005 | The Graviton |
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1 December 2005 | Hobbes |
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8 December 2005 | Artificial Intelligence |
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15 December 2005 | The Peterloo Massacre |
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22 December 2005 | Heaven |
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29 December 2005 | The Oresteia |
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5 January 2006 | The Oath |
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12 January 2006 | Prime Numbers |
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19 January 2006 | Relativism |
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26 January 2006 | Seventeenth Century Print Culture |
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2 February 2006 | The Abbasid Caliphs |
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9 February 2006 | Chaucer |
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16 February 2006 | Human Evolution |
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23 February 2006 | Catherine the Great |
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2 March 2006 | Friendship |
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9 March 2006 | Negative numbers |
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16 March 2006 | Don Quixote |
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23 March 2006 | The Royal Society |
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30 March 2006 | The Carolingian Renaissance |
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6 April 2006 | Goethe |
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13 April 2006 | The Oxford Movement |
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20 April 2006 | Immunisation |
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27 April 2006 | The Great Exhibition of 1851 |
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4 May 2006 | Astronomy and Empire |
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11 May 2006 | Fairies |
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18 May 2006 | Mill |
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25 May 2006 | Mathematics and Music |
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1 June 2006 | The Heart |
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8 June 2006 | Uncle Tom's Cabin |
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15 June 2006 | Carbon |
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22 June 2006 | The Spanish Inquisition |
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29 June 2006 | Galaxies |
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6 July 2006 | Pastoral Literature |
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13 July 2006 | Comedy in Ancient Greek Theatre |
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2006–2007
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Title | Contributors and positions held at time of broadcast |
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28 September 2006 | Humboldt |
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5 October 2006 | Averroes |
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12 October 2006 | The Diet of Worms |
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19 October 2006 | The Needham Question |
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26 October 2006 | The Encyclopédie |
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2 November 2006 | The Poincaré conjecture |
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9 November 2006 | Pope |
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16 November 2006 | The Peasants' Revolt |
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23 November 2006 | Altruism |
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30 November 2006 | The Speed of Light |
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7 December 2006 | Anarchism |
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14 December 2006 | Indian Mathematics |
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21 December 2006 | Hell |
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28 December 2006 | Constantinople Siege and Fall |
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4 January 2007 | Jorge Luis Borges |
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11 January 2007 | Mars |
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18 January 2007 | The Jesuits |
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25 January 2007 | Archimedes |
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1 February 2007 | Genghis Khan |
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8 February 2007 | Popper |
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15 February 2007 | Heart of Darkness |
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22 February 2007 | Wilberforce | This programme was a documentary rather than a discussion. The programme can be streamed rather than downloaded. |
1 March 2007 | Optics |
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8 March 2007 | Microbiology |
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15 March 2007 | Epistolary Literature |
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22 March 2007 | Bismarck |
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29 March 2007 | Anaesthetics |
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5 April 2007 | St Hilda |
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12 April 2007 | The Opium Wars |
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19 April 2007 | Symmetry |
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26 April 2007 | Greek and Roman Love Poetry |
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3 May 2007 | Spinoza |
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10 May 2007 | Victorian Pessimism |
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17 May 2007 | Gravitational Waves |
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24 May 2007 | The Siege of Orléans |
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31 May 2007 | Ockham's Razor |
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7 June 2007 | Siegfried Sassoon |
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14 June 2007 | Renaissance Astrology |
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21 June 2007 | Common Sense Philosophy |
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28 June 2007 | The Permian-Triassic Boundary |
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5 July 2007 | The Pilgrim Fathers |
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12 July 2007 | Madame Bovary |
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2007–2008
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Title | Contributors and positions held at time of broadcast |
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27 September 2007 | Socrates |
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4 October 2007 | Antimatter |
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11 October 2007 | The Divine Right of Kings |
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18 October 2007 | The Arabian Nights |
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25 October 2007 | Taste |
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1 November 2007 | Guilt |
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8 November 2007 | Avicenna |
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15 November 2007 | Oxygen |
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22 November 2007 | The Prelude |
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29 November 2007 | The Fibonacci Sequence |
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6 December 2007 | Genetic Mutation |
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13 December 2007 | The Sassanid Empire |
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20 December 2007 | The Four Humours |
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27 December 2007 | The Nicene Creed |
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3 January 2008 | Camus |
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10 January 2008 | The Charge of the Light Brigade |
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17 January 2008 | The Fisher King |
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24 January 2008 | Plate Tectonics |
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31 January 2008 | Rudolph II |
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7 February 2008 | The Social Contract |
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14 February 2008 | The Statue of Liberty |
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21 February 2008 | The Multiverse |
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28 February 2008 | Lear |
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6 March 2008 | Ada Lovelace |
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13 March 2008 | The Greek Myths |
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20 March 2008 | Kierkegaard |
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27 March 2008 | The Dissolution of the Monasteries |
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3 April 2008 | The Laws of Motion |
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10 April 2008 | The Norman Yoke |
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17 April 2008 | Yeats and Irish Politics |
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24 April 2008 | Materialism |
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1 May 2008 | The Enclosures of the 18th Century |
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8 May 2008 | The Brain |
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15 May 2008 | The Library at Nineveh |
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22 May 2008 | The Black Death |
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29 May 2008 | Probability |
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5 June 2008 | Lysenkoism |
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12 June 2008 | The Riddle of the Sands |
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19 June 2008 | The Music of the Spheres |
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26 June 2008 | The Arab Conquests |
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3 July 2008 | The Metaphysical Poets |
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10 July 2008 | Tacitus and the Decadence of Rome |
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2008–2009
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Title | Contributors and positions held at time of broadcast |
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25 September 2008 | Miracles |
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2 October 2008 | The Translation Movement |
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9 October 2008 | Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems |
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16 October 2008 | Vitalism |
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23 October 2008 | Dante's Inferno |
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30 October 2008 | Bolivar |
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6 November 2008 | Aristotle's Politics |
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13 November 2008 | Neuroscience |
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20 November 2008 | The Baroque Movement |
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27 November 2008 | The Great Reform Act |
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4 December 2008 | Heat |
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11 December 2008 | The Fire of London |
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18 December 2008 | The Physics of Time |
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1 January 2009 | The Consolations of Philosophy |
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5 January 2009 | Darwin: On the Origins of Charles Darwin |
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6 January 2009 | Darwin: The Voyage of the Beagle |
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7 January 2009 | Darwin: On the Origin of Species |
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8 January 2009 | Darwin: Life After Origins |
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15 January 2009 | Thoreau and the American Idyll |
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22 January 2009 | History of History |
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29 January 2009 | Swift's A Modest Proposal |
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5 February 2009 | The Brothers Grimm |
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12 February 2009 | Carthage's Destruction |
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19 February 2009 | The Observatory at Jaipur |
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26 February 2009 | The Waste Land and Modernity |
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5 March 2009 | The Measurement problem in Physics |
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12 March 2009 | The Library of Alexandria |
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19 March 2009 | The Boxer Rebellion |
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26 March 2009 | The School of Athens |
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2 April 2009 | Baconian Science |
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9 April 2009 | Aldous Huxley's Brave New World |
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16 April 2009 | Suffragism |
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23 April 2009 | The Building of St Petersburg |
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30 April 2009 | The Vacuum of Space |
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7 May 2009 | The Magna Carta |
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14 May 2009 | The Siege of Vienna |
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21 May 2009 | The Whale - A History |
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28 May 2009 | St Paul |
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4 June 2009 | The Trial of Charles I |
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11 June 2009 | The Augustan Age |
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18 June 2009 | Elizabethan Revenge |
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25 June 2009 | Sunni and Shia Islam |
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2 July 2009 | Logical Positivism |
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9 July 2009 | Ediacara Biota |
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2009–2010
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Title | Contributors and positions held at time of broadcast |
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17 September 2009 | St Thomas Aquinas |
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24 September 2009 | Calculus |
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1 October 2009 | Akhenaten |
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8 October 2009 | The Dreyfus Affair |
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15 October 2009 | The Death of Elizabeth I |
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22 October 2009 | The Geological Formation of Britain |
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29 October 2009 | Schopenhauer |
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5 November 2009 | The Siege of Munster |
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12 November 2009 | Radiation |
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19 November 2009 | Sparta |
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26 November 2009 | Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man |
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3 December 2009 | The Silk Road |
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10 December 2009 | Pythagoras |
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24 December 2009 | The Samurai |
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31 December 2009 | Mary Wollstonecraft |
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4 January 2010 | The Royal Society and British Science: Episode 1 | Documentary format |
5 January 2010 | The Royal Society and British Science: Episode 2 | Documentary format |
6 January 2010 | The Royal Society and British Science: Episode 3 | Documentary format |
7 January 2010 | The Royal Society and British Science: Episode 4 | Documentary format |
14 January 2010 | The Frankfurt School |
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21 January 2010 | The Glencoe Massacre |
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28 January 2010 | Silas Marner |
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4 February 2010 | Ibn Khaldun |
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11 February 2010 | The Unintended Consequences of Mathematics |
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18 February 2010 | The Indian Mutiny |
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25 February 2010 | Calvinism |
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4 March 2010 | The Infant Brain |
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11 March 2010 | Boudica |
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18 March 2010 | Munch and The Scream |
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25 March 2010 | The City - a history, part 1 |
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1 April 2010 | The City - a history, part 2 |
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8 April 2010 | William Hazlitt |
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15 April 2010 | The Rise and Fall of the Zulu Nation |
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22 April 2010 | Roman Satire |
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29 April 2010 | The Great Wall of China |
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6 May 2010 | The Cool Universe |
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13 May 2010 | William James's The Varieties of Religious Experience |
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20 May 2010 | The Cavendish Family in Science |
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27 May 2010 | Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists |
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3 June 2010 | Edmund Burke |
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10 June 2010 | Al-Biruni |
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17 June 2010 | The Neanderthals |
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24 June 2010 | Antarctica |
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1 July 2010 | Athelstan |
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8 July 2010 | Pliny's Natural History |
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2010–2011
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23 September 2010 | Imaginary numbers |
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30 September 2010 | The Delphic Oracle | |
7 October 2010 | The Spanish Armada |
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14 October 2010 | Sturm und Drang |
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21 October 2010 | Logic |
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28 October 2010 | The Unicorn |
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4 November 2010 | Women and Enlightenment Science |
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11 November 2010 | The Volga Vikings |
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18 November 2010 | Foxe's Book of Martyrs |
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25 November 2010 | History of Metaphor |
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2 December 2010 | Cleopatra |
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9 December 2010 | Thomas Edison |
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16 December 2010 | Daoism |
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23 December 2010 | The Industrial Revolution |
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30 December 2010 | Consequences of the Industrial Revolution |
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6 January 2011 | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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13 January 2011 | Random and Pseudorandom |
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20 January 2011 | The Mexican Revolution |
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27 January 2011 | Aristotle's Poetics |
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3 February 2011 | The Battle of Bannockburn |
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10 February 2011 | The Nervous System |
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17 February 2011 | Maimonides |
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24 February 2011 | The Taiping Rebellion |
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3 March 2011 | The Age of the Universe |
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10 March 2011 | Free Will (500th programme)
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17 March 2011 | The Medieval University |
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24 March 2011 | The Iron Age |
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31 March 2011 | The Bhagavad Gita |
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7 April 2011 | Octavia Hill |
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14 April 2011 | The Neutrino |
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21 April 2011 | The Pelagian Controversy |
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28 April 2011 | Cogito Ergo Sum |
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5 May 2011 | Islamic Law and its Origins |
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12 May 2011 | The Anatomy of Melancholy |
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19 May 2011 | Custer's Last Stand |
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26 May 2011 | Xenophon |
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2 June 2011 | The Battle of Stamford Bridge |
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9 June 2011 | The Origins of Infectious Disease |
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16 June 2011 | Wyclif and the Lollards |
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23 June 2011 | Malthusianism |
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30 June 2011 | Tennyson's In Memoriam |
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7 July 2011 | The Minoan Civilisation |
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2011–2012
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15 September 2011 | The Hippocratic Oath |
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22 September 2011 | Shinto |
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29 September 2011 | The Etruscan Civilisation |
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6 October 2011 | David Hume |
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13 October 2011 | The Ming Voyages |
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20 October 2011 | Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People |
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27 October 2011 | The Siege of Tenochtitlan |
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3 November 2011 | The Moon |
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10 November 2011 | The Continental-Analytic Split |
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17 November 2011 | Ptolemy and Ancient Astronomy |
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24 November 2011 | Judas Maccabeus |
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1 December 2011 | Christina Rossetti |
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8 December 2011 | Heraclitus |
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15 December 2011 | The Concordat of Worms |
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22 December 2011 | Robinson Crusoe |
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29 December 2011 | Macromolecules |
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2 January 2012 | The Written World: Episode 1 | Documentary format |
3 January 2012 | The Written World: Episode 2 | Documentary format |
4 January 2012 | The Written World: Episode 3 | Documentary format |
5 January 2012 | The Written World: Episode 4 | Documentary format |
6 January 2012 | The Written World: Episode 5 | Documentary format |
12 January 2012 | The Safavid dynasty |
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19 January 2012 | 1848: Year of Revolution |
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26 January 2012 | The Scientific method |
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2 February 2012 | The Kama Sutra |
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9 February 2012 | Erasmus |
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16 February 2012 | The An Lushan Rebellion |
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23 February 2012 | Conductors and Semiconductors |
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1 March 2012 | Benjamin Franklin |
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8 March 2012 | Lyrical Ballads |
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15 March 2012 | Vitruvius and De Architectura |
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22 March 2012 | Moses Mendelssohn |
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29 March 2012 | The Measurement of Time |
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5 April 2012 | George Fox and the Quakers |
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12 April 2012 | Early Geology |
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19 April 2012 | Neoplatonism |
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26 April 2012 | The Battle of Bosworth Field |
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3 May 2012 | Voltaire's Candide |
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10 May 2012 | Game Theory |
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17 May 2012 | Clausewitz and On War |
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24 May 2012 | Marco Polo |
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31 May 2012 | The Trojan War |
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7 June 2012 | King Solomon |
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14 June 2012 | James Joyce's Ulysses |
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21 June 2012 | Annie Besant |
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28 June 2012 | Al-Kindi |
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5 July 2012 | Scepticism |
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12 July 2012 | Hadrian's Wall |
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2012–2013
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Title | Contributors and positions held at time of broadcast |
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13 September 2012 | The Cell |
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20 September 2012 | The Druids |
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27 September 2012 | The Ontological Argument |
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4 October 2012 | Gerald of Wales |
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11 October 2012 | Hannibal |
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18 October 2012 | Caxton and the Printing Press |
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25 October 2012 | Fermat's Last Theorem |
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1 November 2012 | The Anarchy |
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8 November 2012 | The Upanishads |
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15 November 2012 | Simone Weil |
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22 November 2012 | The Borgias |
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29 November 2012 | Crystallography |
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6 December 2012 | Bertrand Russell |
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13 December 2012 | Shahnameh of Ferdowsi |
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20 December 2012 | The South Sea Bubble |
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27 December 2012 | The Cult of Mithras |
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10 January 2013 | Le Morte d'Arthur |
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17 January 2013 | Comets |
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24 January 2013 | Romulus and Remus |
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31 January 2013 | The War of 1812 |
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7 February 2013 | Epicureanism |
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14 February 2013 | Ice ages |
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21 February 2013 | Decline and Fall |
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28 February 2013 | Pitt Rivers |
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7 March 2013 | Absolute Zero |
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14 March 2013 | Chekhov |
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21 March 2013 | Alfred Russel Wallace |
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28 March 2013 | Water |
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4 April 2013 | Japan's Sakoku Period |
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11 April 2013 | The Amazons |
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18 April 2013 | The Putney Debates |
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25 April 2013 | Montaigne |
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2 May 2013 | Gnosticism |
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9 May 2013 | Icelandic Sagas |
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16 May 2013 | Cosmic rays |
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23 May 2013 | Lévi-Strauss |
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30 May 2013 | Queen Zenobia |
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6 June 2013 | Relativity |
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13 June 2013 | Prophecy |
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20 June 2013 | The Physiocrats |
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27 June 2013 | Romance of the Three Kingdoms |
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4 July 2013 | The Invention of Radio |
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2013–2014
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Title | Contributors and positions held at time of broadcast |
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19 September 2013 | Pascal |
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26 September 2013 | The Mamluks |
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3 October 2013 | Exoplanets |
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10 October 2013 | Galen |
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17 October 2013 | The Book of Common Prayer |
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24 October 2013 | The Corn Laws |
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31 October 2013 | The Berlin Conference |
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7 November 2013 | Ordinary language philosophy |
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14 November 2013 | The Tempest |
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21 November 2013 | Pocahontas |
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28 November 2013 | The Microscope |
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5 December 2013 | Hindu Ideas of Creation |
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12 December 2013 | Pliny the Younger |
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19 December 2013 | Complexity |
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26 December 2013 | The Medici |
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3 January 2014 | Plato's Symposium |
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16 January 2014 | The Battle of Tours |
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23 January 2014 | Sources of Early Chinese History |
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30 January 2014 | Catastrophism |
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6 February 2014 | The Phoenicians |
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13 February 2014 | Chivalry |
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20 February 2014 | Social Darwinism |
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27 February 2014 | The Eye |
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6 March 2014 | Spartacus |
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13 March 2014 | The Trinity |
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20 March 2014 | Bishop Berkeley |
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27 March 2014 | Weber's The Protestant Ethic |
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3 April 2014 | States of Matter |
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10 April 2014 | Strabo's Geographica |
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17 April 2014 | The Domesday Book |
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24 April 2014 | Tristram Shandy |
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1 May 2014 | The Tale of Sinuhe |
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8 May 2014 | The Sino-Japanese War |
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15 May 2014 | Photosynthesis |
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22 May 2014 | The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam |
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29 May 2014 | The Talmud |
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5 June 2014 | The Bluestockings |
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12 June 2014 | Robert Boyle |
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19 June 2014 | The Philosophy of Solitude |
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26 June 2014 | Hildegard of Bingen |
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3 July 2014 | Mrs Dalloway |
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10 July 2014 | The Sun |
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2014–2015
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Title | Contributors and positions held at time of broadcast |
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25 September 2014 | e |
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2 October 2014 | Julius Caesar |
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9 October 2014 | The Battle of Talas |
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16 October 2014 | Rudyard Kipling |
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23 October 2014 | The Haitian Revolution |
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30 October 2014 | Nuclear Fusion |
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6 November 2014 | Hatshepsut |
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13 November 2014 | Brunel |
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20 November 2014 | Aesop |
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27 November 2014 | Kafka's The Trial |
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4 December 2014 | Zen |
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11 December 2014 | Behavioural ecology |
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18 December 2014 | Truth |
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15 January 2015 | Bruegel's The Fight Between Carnival and Lent |
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22 January 2015 | Phenomenology |
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29 January 2015 | Thucydides |
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5 February 2015 | Ashoka the Great |
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12 February 2015 | The Photon |
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19 February 2015 | The Wealth of Nations |
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26 February 2015 | The Eunuch |
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5 March 2015 | Beowulf |
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12 March 2015 | Dark matter |
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19 March 2015 | Al-Ghazali |
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26 March 2015 | The Curies |
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2 April 2015 | The California Gold Rush |
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9 April 2015 | Sappho |
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16 April 2015 | Matteo Ricci and the Ming dynasty |
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23 April 2015 | Fanny Burney |
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30 April 2015 | The Earth's core |
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7 May 2015 | Rabindranath Tagore |
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14 May 2015 | The Lancashire Cotton Famine |
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21 May 2015 | Josephus |
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28 May 2015 | The Science of Glass |
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4 June 2015 | Prester John |
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11 June 2015 | Utilitarianism |
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18 June 2015 | Jane Eyre |
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25 June 2015 | Extremophiles |
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2 July 2015 | Frederick the Great |
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9 July 2015 | Frida Kahlo |
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2015–2016
[edit]From the start of 2016 (Saturn) the podcast version of the programme started to include a few minutes of unbroadcast extra material, which would generally be prompted by the question So, what did we miss?
Broadcast date Listen again |
Title | Contributors and positions held at time of broadcast |
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24 September 2015 | Perpetual motion |
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1 October 2015 | Alexander the Great |
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15 October 2015 | Holbein at the Tudor Court |
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22 October 2015 | Simone de Beauvoir |
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29 October 2015 | The Empire of Mali |
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5 November 2015 | P v NP |
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12 November 2015 | The Battle of Lepanto |
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19 November 2015 | Emma |
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29 November 2015 | The Salem Witch Trials |
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3 December 2015 | Voyages of James Cook |
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10 December 2015 | Chinese Legalism |
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17 December 2015 | Circadian rhythms |
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25 December 2015 | Michael Faraday |
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31 December 2015 | Tristan and Iseult |
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14 January 2016 | Saturn |
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21 January 2016 | Thomas Paine's Common Sense |
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28 January 2016 | Eleanor of Aquitaine |
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4 February 2016 | Chromatography |
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11 February 2016 | Rumi's Poetry |
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18 February 2016 | Robert Hooke |
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25 February 2016 | Mary Magdalene |
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3 March 2016 | The Dutch East India Company |
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10 March 2016 | The Maya Civilization |
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17 March 2016 | Bedlam |
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24 March 2016 | Aurora Leigh |
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31 March 2016 | Agrippina the Younger |
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7 April 2016 | The Sikh Empire |
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14 April 2016 | The Neutron |
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21 April 2016 | 1816, the Year Without a Summer |
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28 April 2016 | Euclid's Elements |
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5 May 2016 | Tess of the d'Urbervilles |
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12 May 2016 | Titus Oates and his 'Popish Plot' |
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19 May 2016 | The Muses |
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26 May 2016 | The Gettysburg Address |
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2 June 2016 | Margery Kempe and English Mysticism |
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9 June 2016 | Penicillin |
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16 June 2016 | The Bronze Age Collapse | John Bennet, Director of the British School at Athens and Professor of Aegean Archaeology at the University of Sheffield
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23 June 2016 | Songs of Innocence and of Experience |
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30 June 2016 | Sovereignty |
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7 July 2016 | The Invention of Photography |
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2016–2017
[edit]Broadcast date Listen again |
Title | Contributors and positions held at time of broadcast |
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22 September 2016 | Zeno's paradoxes |
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29 September 2016 | Animal Farm |
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6 October 2016 | Lakshmi |
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13 October 2016 | Plasma |
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20 October 2016 | The 12th Century Renaissance |
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27 October 2016 | John Dalton |
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3 November 2016 | Epic of Gilgamesh |
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10 November 2016 | The Fighting Temeraire |
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17 November 2016 | Justinian's Legal Code |
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24 November 2016 | Baltic Crusades |
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1 December 2016 | Garibaldi and the Risorgimento |
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8 December 2016 | Harriet Martineau |
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15 December 2016 | The Gin Craze |
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21 December 2016 | Four Quartets |
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29 December 2016 | Johannes Kepler |
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12 January 2017 | Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morality |
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19 January 2017 | Mary, Queen of Scots |
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26 January 2017 | Parasitism |
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2 February 2017 | Hannah Arendt |
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9 February 2017 | John Clare |
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16 February 2017 | Maths in the Early Islamic World |
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23 February 2017 | Seneca the Younger |
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2 March 2017 | The Kuiper belt |
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9 March 2017 | North and South |
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16 March 2017 | The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum |
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23 March 2017 | The Battle of Salamis |
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30 March 2017 | Hokusai |
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6 April 2017 | Pauli's exclusion principle |
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13 April 2017 | Rosa Luxemburg |
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20 April 2017 | Roger Bacon |
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27 April 2017 | The Egyptian Book of the Dead |
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4 May 2017 | The Battle of Lincoln 1217 |
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11 May 2017 | Emily Dickinson |
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18 May 2017 | Louis Pasteur |
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25 May 2017 | Purgatory |
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1 June 2017 | Enzymes |
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8 June 2017 | Christine de Pizan |
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15 June 2017 | The American Populists |
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22 June 2017 | Eugene Onegin |
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29 June 2017 | Plato's Republic |
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6 July 2017 | Bird migration |
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2017–2018
[edit]Broadcast date Listen again |
Title | Contributors and positions held at time of broadcast |
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21 September 2017 | Kant's Categorical Imperative |
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28 September 2017 | Wuthering Heights |
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5 October 2017 | Constantine the Great |
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12 October 2017 | Aphra Behn |
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19 October 2017 | The Congress of Vienna |
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26 October 2017 | Feathered dinosaurs |
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2 November 2017 | Picasso's Guernica |
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9 November 2017 | The Picts |
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16 November 2017 | Germaine de Staël |
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23 November 2017 | Thebes |
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30 November 2017 | Carl Friedrich Gauss |
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7 December 2017 | Moby Dick |
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14 December 2017 | Thomas Becket |
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21 December 2017 | Ludwig van Beethoven |
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28 December 2017 | Hamlet |
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11 January 2018 | The Siege of Malta, 1565 |
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18 January 2018 | Anna Akhmatova |
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25 January 2018 | Cicero |
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1 February 2018 | Cephalopods |
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9 February 2018 | Frederick Douglass |
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15 February 2018 | Fungi |
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22 February 2018 | Rosalind Franklin |
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1 March 2018 | Sun Tzu and The Art of War |
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8 March 2018 | The Highland Clearances |
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15 March 2018 | Augustine's Confessions |
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22 March 2018 | Tocqueville: Democracy in America |
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5 April 2018 | Roman Slavery |
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11 April 2018 | George and Robert Stephenson |
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18 April 2018 | Middlemarch |
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26 April 2018 | The Proton |
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3 May 2018 | The Almoravid Empire |
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10 May 2018 | The Mabinogion |
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17 May 2018 | The Emancipation of the Serfs |
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25 May 2018 | Margaret of Anjou |
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31 May 2018 | Henrik Ibsen |
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7 June 2018 | Persepolis |
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14 June 2018 | Montesquieu |
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21 June 2018 | Echolocation |
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28 June 2018 | The Mexican-American War |
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5 July 2018 | William Morris |
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2018–2019
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Title | Contributors and positions held at time of broadcast |
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13 September 2018 | The Iliad |
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20 September 2018 | Automata |
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27 September 2018 | Dietrich Bonhoeffer |
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4 October 2018 | Edith Wharton |
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11 October 2018 | Is Shakespeare History? The Plantagenets |
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18 October 2018 | Is Shakespeare History? The Romans |
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25 October 2018 | The Fable of the Bees |
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1 November 2018 | Free Radicals |
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8 November 2018 | Marie Antoinette |
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15 November 2018 | Horace |
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22 November 2018 | Hope |
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29 November 2018 | The Long March |
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6 December 2018 | The Thirty Years War |
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13 December 2018 | Sir Gawain and the Green Knight |
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20 December 2018 | The Poor Laws |
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27 December 2018 | Venus |
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10 January 2019 | Papal Infallibility |
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17 January 2019 | Samuel Beckett |
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24 January 2019 | Emmy Noether |
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31 January 2019 | Owain Glyndŵr |
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7 February 2019 | Aristotle's biology |
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14 February 2019 | Judith beheading Holofernes |
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21 February 2019 | Pheromones |
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28 February 2019 | Antarah ibn Shaddad |
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7 March 2019 | William Cecil |
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14 March 2019 | Authenticity |
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21 March 2019 | Gerard Manley Hopkins |
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28 March 2019 | The Danelaw |
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4 April 2019 | The Great Irish Famine |
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11 April 2019 | The Evolution of Teeth |
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18 April 2019 | A Midsummer Night's Dream |
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25 April 2019 | Nero |
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2 May 2019 | The Gordon Riots |
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9 May 2019 | Bergson and Time |
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16 May 2019 | Frankenstein |
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23 May 2019 | Kinetic Theory |
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30 May 2019 | President Ulysses S Grant |
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6 June 2019 | Sir Thomas Browne |
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13 June 2019 | The Inca |
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20 June 2019 | The Mytilenaean Debate |
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27 June 2019 | Doggerland |
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4 July 2019 | Lorca |
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2019–2020
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Title | Contributors and positions held at time of broadcast |
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19 September 2019 | Napoleon's Retreat from Moscow |
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26 September 2019 | The Rapture |
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3 October 2019 | Dorothy Hodgkin |
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10 October 2019 | Rousseau on Education |
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17 October 2019 | The Time Machine |
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24 October 2019 | Robert Burns |
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31 October 2019 | Hybrids |
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7 November 2019 | The Treaty of Limerick |
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14 November 2019 | Crime and Punishment |
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21 November 2019 | Melisende, Queen of Jerusalem |
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28 November 2019 | Li Shizhen |
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5 December 2019 | Lawrence of Arabia |
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12 December 2019 | Coffee |
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19 December 2019 | Auden |
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26 December 2019 | Tutankhamun |
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11 January 2020 | Catullus |
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16 January 2020 | The Siege of Paris (1870-71) |
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23 January 2020 | Solar Wind |
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30 January 2020 | Alcuin |
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6 February 2020 | George Sand |
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13 February 2020 | Battle of the Teutoburg Forest |
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20 February 2020 | Valladolid Debate |
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27 February 2020 | The Evolution of Horses |
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5 March 2020 | Paul Dirac |
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12 March 2020 | The Covenanters |
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The 2019–2020 series was truncated because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
2020–2021
[edit]Broadcast date Listen again |
Title | Contributors and positions held at time of broadcast |
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17 September 2020 | Pericles |
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24 September 2020 | Cave Art |
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1 October 2020 | Macbeth |
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8 October 2020 | Deism |
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15 October 2020 | Alan Turing |
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22 October 2020 | Maria Theresa |
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29 October 2020 | Piers Plowman |
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5 November 2020 | Mary Astell |
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12 November 2020 | Albrecht Dürer |
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26 November 2020 | Zong Massacre |
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3 December 2020 | Fernando Pessoa |
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10 December 2020 | John Wesley and Methodism |
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17 December 2020 | The Cultural Revolution |
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31 December 2020 | Eclipses |
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14 January 2021 | The Great Gatsby |
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21 January 2021 | The Plague of Justinian |
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28 January 2021 | Saint Cuthbert |
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4 February 2021 | Emilie du Châtelet |
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11 February 2021 | The Rosetta Stone |
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18 February 2021 | Medieval Pilgrimage |
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25 February 2021 | Marcus Aurelius |
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4 March 2021 | The Rime of the Ancient Mariner |
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11 March 2021 | The Late Devonian Extinction |
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18 March 2021 | The Bacchae |
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25 March 2021 | David Ricardo |
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1 April 2021 | The Russo-Japanese War |
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8 April 2021 | Pierre-Simon Laplace |
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15 April 2021 | Arianism |
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22 April 2021 | The Franco-American Alliance 1778 |
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29 April 2021 | Ovid |
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6 May 2021 | The Second Barons' War |
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13 May 2021 | Longitude |
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20 May 2021 | Journey to the West |
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27 May 2021 | The Interregnum |
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3 June 2021 | Kant's Copernican Revolution |
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10 June 2021 | Booth's Life and Labour Survey |
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17 June 2021 | Edward Gibbon |
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24 June 2021 | Shakespeare's Sonnets |
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2021–2022
[edit]Broadcast date Listen again |
Title | Contributors and positions held at time of broadcast |
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16 September 2021 | The Evolution of Crocodiles |
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23 September 2021 | Herodotus |
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30 September 2021 | The Tenant of Wildfell Hall |
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7 October 2021 | The Manhattan Project |
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14 October 2021 | The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth |
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21 October 2021 | Iris Murdoch |
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28 October 2021 | Corals |
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4 November 2021 | The Song of Roland |
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11 November 2021 | William and Caroline Herschel |
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18 November 2021 | The Decadent Movement |
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25 November 2021 | Plato's Gorgias |
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2 December 2021 | The Battle of Trafalgar |
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9 December 2021 | The May Fourth Movement |
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16 December 2021 | A Christmas Carol |
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23 December 2021 | The Hittites |
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30 December 2021 | Fritz Lang |
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13 January 2022 | Thomas Hardy's Poetry |
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20 January 2022 | The Gold Standard |
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27 January 2022 | Colette |
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3 February 2022 | The Temperance Movement |
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10 February 2022 | Walter Benjamin |
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17 February 2022 | Romeo and Juliet |
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24 February 2022 | Peter Kropotkin |
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3 March 2022 | The Arthashastra |
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10 March 2022 | Seismology |
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17 March 2022 | Charisma |
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24 March 2022 | Antigone |
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31 March 2022 | The Sistine Chapel |
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07 April 2022 | Polidori's The Vampyre |
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14 April 2022 | Homo erectus |
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21 April 2022 | Olympe de Gouges |
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28 April 2022 | Early Christian Martyrdom |
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5 May 2022 | The Davidian Revolution |
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12 May 2022 | Tang Era Poetry |
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19 May 2022 | Jan Amos Komenský |
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26 May 2022 | Hegel's Philosophy of History |
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9 June 2022 | The Death of Stars |
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16 June 2022 | Dylan Thomas |
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23 June 2022 | Angkor Wat |
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30 June 2022 | John Bull |
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2022–2023
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Title | Contributors and positions held at time of broadcast |
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15 September 2022 | Nineteen Eighty-Four |
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22 September 2022 | Plato's Atlantis |
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29 September 2022 | The Electron |
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6 October 2022 | The Knights Templar |
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13 October 2022 | Berthe Morisot |
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20 October 2022 | The Fish-Tetrapod Transition |
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27 October 2022 | Wilfred Owen |
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3 November 2022 | The Morant Bay Rebellion |
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10 November 2022 | Bauhaus |
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17 November 2022 | Demosthenes' Philippics |
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24 November 2022 | The Challenger Expedition 1872–1876 |
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1 December 2022 | The Nibelungenlied |
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8 December 2022 | The Irish Rebellion of 1798 |
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15 December 2022 | Citizen Kane |
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22 December 2022 | Persuasion |
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29 December 2022 | The Great Stink |
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12 January 2023 | John Donne |
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19 January 2023 | Rawls' Theory of Justice |
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26 January 2023 | Superconductivity |
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2 February 2023 | Tycho Brahe |
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9 Feb 2023 | Chartism |
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16 Feb 2023 | Stevie Smith |
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23 Feb 2023 | Paul Erdős |
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2 Mar 2023 | Megaliths |
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9 March 2023 | The Ramayana |
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16 March 2023 | Mercantilism |
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23 March 2023 | Solon the Lawgiver |
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30 March 2023 | A Room of One's Own |
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6 April 2023 | Cnut |
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13 April 2023 | The Battle of Crécy |
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20 April 2023 | Linnaeus |
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27 April 2023 | Walt Whitman |
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4 May 2023 | The Dead Sea Scrolls |
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11 May 2023 | The Shimabara Rebellion |
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18 May 2023 | Virgil's Georgics |
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25 May 2023 | Louis XIV: The Sun King |
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01 June 2023 | Mitochondria |
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08 June 2023 | Oedipus Rex |
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15 June 2023 | Death in Venice |
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22 June 2023 | Elizabeth Anscombe |
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29 June 2023 | Jupiter |
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2023–2024
[edit]Broadcast date Listen again |
Title | Contributors and positions held at time of broadcast |
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14 September 2023 | Albert Einstein |
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21 September 2023 | The Seventh Seal
(1000th program) |
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21 September 2023 | Melvyn Bragg talks to Mishal Husain |
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28 September 2023 | The Economic Consequences of the Peace |
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05 October 2023 | Plankton |
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12 October 2023 | The Federalist Papers |
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19 October 2023 | Julian of Norwich |
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26 October 2023 | Germinal |
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02 November 2023 | Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics |
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09 November 2023 | The Barbary Corsairs |
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16 November 2023 | The Theory of the Leisure Class |
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23 November 2023 | Marguerite de Navarre |
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30 November 2023 | Edgar Allan Poe |
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07 December 2023 | Karl Barth |
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14 December 2023 | Tiberius |
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21 December 2023 | Vincent van Gogh |
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28 December 2023 | Twelfth Night, or What You Will |
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11 January 2024 | Condorcet |
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18 January 2024 | Nefertiti |
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25 January 2024 | Panpsychism |
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1 February 2024 | The Hanseatic League |
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8 February 2024 | Hormones |
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15 February 2024 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland |
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22 February 2024 | The Sack of Rome 1527 |
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29 February 2024 | Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle |
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07 March 2024 | The Mokrani Revolt |
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14 March 2024 | The Waltz |
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21 March 2024 | Julian the Apostate |
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28 March 2024 | The Kalevala |
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04 April 2024 | Nikola Tesla |
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11 April 2024 | Lysistrata |
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18 April 2024 | Napoleon's Hundred Days |
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25 April 2024 | Bertolt Brecht |
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02 May 2024 | Mercury |
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09 May 2024 | Sir Thomas Wyatt |
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16 May 2024 | Philippa Foot |
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23 May 2024 | Empress Dowager Cixi |
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30 May 2024 | Marsilius of Padua |
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06 June 2024 | The Orkneyinga Saga |
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13 June 2024 | Fielding's Tom Jones |
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20 June 2024 | Karma |
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27 June 2024 | Monet in England |
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04 July 2024 | Bacteriophages |
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References
[edit]- ^ "The complete in Our Time now available as podcasts". Radio Times. 15 September 2011. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 25 October 2015.
- ^ "In Our Time's Greatest Philiosopher Vote". BBC Radio 4. Archived from the original on 13 February 2021. Retrieved 18 February 2023.