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Geoff Watts asks why the source of new medical drugs is drying up.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the return of classical pagan thought in the Renaissance.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss pastoral literature from Virgil to Dylan Thomas.
Melvyn Bragg examines the 1381 Peasants’ Revolt, a pivotal moment in England’s history.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the church's most significant doctrinal disputes.
Melvyn Bragg examines perception: how the brain reacts to the mass of data crowding it.
Melvyn Bragg discusses the Permian-Triassic boundary in evolutionary history.
Melvyn Bragg examines the 1819 Peterloo Massacre and the brutality of the British state.
Melvyn Bragg examines the western understanding of the Philosophy of Love since Plato.
Melvyn Bragg examines the attempt to reconcile Quantum Theory and classical physics.
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