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First shown:: 8 February at 09:02
Last shown:: 8 February at 21:30

Melvyn Bragg examines what happened to Humanism after its invention by Cicero in the first century BC. What does humanism actually mean and is it still a classical force in contemporary ideas?

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The Adventures of an English Student: Humanism as the Ideology Behind Nazism

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