Serialised book readings, featuring works of non-fiction, biography, autobiography, travel, diaries, essays, humour and history
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05:45 - 05:57
Cumbrian farmers call for government help to save their land.

Serialised book readings, featuring works of non-fiction, biography, autobiography, travel, diaries, essays, humour and history
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Available since Friday with 5 days left.
5/5. A ship that repaired itself, and how the earliest telephones worked without bells.
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Available since Thursday with 4 days left.
4/5. Who really invented the wheel, why one particular flower exudes the smell of nicotine.
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3/5. How two physicists linked the problem of interference on their TV screen to the Big Bang.
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2/5. Why a hair of the dog works; how a 5,000-year-old pot could show early animation.
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Available since last Monday with 4 hours left.
1/5. Featuring an inventor who was strangled by his own invention. Read by Toby Longworth.
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