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Geoff Watts asks why the source of new medical drugs is drying up.
The life and work of the Venerable Bede who revolutionised Christian scholarship.
Melvyn Bragg explores Victorian realism and its focus on the ordinariness of life.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Voltaire's satirical novel Candide, published in 1759.
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