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In Our Time Japan's Sakoku Period
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Japan's Sakoku period of deliberate isolation.
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The Long View NHS Failings at Stafford
Jonathan Freedland takes the long view of the Francis Report into NHS failings at Stafford
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In Our Time Water
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss water, one of the most remarkable of all molecules.
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Witness Life in Ceausescu's Romania
Nicolae Ceausescu controlled Romania through his feared secret police, the Securitate.
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In Our Time Alfred Russel Wallace
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the work of the biologist Alfred Russel Wallace.
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Document Votes for Victorian Women
Sarah Richardson discovers a document which shows that women in Lichfield voted in 1843.
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Witness The Lebanon hostage crisis
In 1991 Giandomenico Picco was sent to Beirut to try to free Western hostages.
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Baroque in Britain Episode 5
5/5 Might the Baroque still be with us? Tim Marlow meets the Baroque-inspired artists of today
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Baroque in Britain Episode 4
4/5 It's 1734, and a 'battle of the buildings' breaks out on the outskirts of Barnsley.
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In Our Time Chekhov
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and work of the Russian writer Anton Chekhov.
