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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how this Bible story has inspired artists for centuries.

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In Our Time
Judith beheading Holofernes
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how this Bible story has inspired artists for centuries.
49 mins
In Our Time
Pheromones
A discussion of the chemicals that animals use in order to affect others of their species.
49 mins
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Antarah ibn Shaddad
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the poetry and context of this pre-Islamic Arabian knight
49 mins
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William Cecil
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the most powerful man in the court of Elizabeth I.
51 mins
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Authenticity
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss what it means to be oneself
50 mins
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Gerard Manley Hopkins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss 'the only influential poet of the Victorian age'.
47 mins
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The Danelaw
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Danish impact on England in 9th and 10th centuries.
50 mins
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The Great Irish Famine
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the causes and consequences of the Famine of 1845-49.
57 mins
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The Evolution of Teeth
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how teeth evolved in our toothless ancestors - and why.
49 mins
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Shakespeare's comedy, one of his most popular plays
54 mins
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Nero
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most notorious rulers of ancient Rome.
51 mins
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The Gordon Riots
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the causes of the violence of June 1780 and repercussions.
50 mins
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Bergson and Time
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Henri Bergson's ideas about our experience of time passing
51 mins
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Frankenstein
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Mary Shelley's Gothic story of a monster brought to life
55 mins
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Kinetic Theory
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how we know gas molecules move rather than keep still.
51 mins
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President Ulysses S Grant
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Grant's role in reconstructing the USA after the Civil War
55 mins
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Sir Thomas Browne
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the physician with a curious mind in dangerous times
52 mins
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The Inca
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the advanced Andean empire, dominant until Pizarro arrived
52 mins
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The Mytilenaean Debate
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Athenians' change of mind in the Peloponnesian War.
54 mins
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Doggerland
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Stone Age human habitats now covered by the North Sea.
54 mins
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Lorca
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Spanish poet and playwright's work, life and death.
53 mins
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Echolocation (Summer Repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how some animals sense their world with sound not sight.
51 mins
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Frederick Douglass (Summer Repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and ideas of Frederick Douglass, born to slavery
52 mins
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Edith Wharton (Summer Repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Wharton's novels of America's Gilded Age
49 mins
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Venus (Summer Repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the planet closest to Earth, sometimes called Earth's twin
50 mins
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Hope (Summer Repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the philosophy of hope - a weakness or a strength?
53 mins
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Summer Repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the greatest poems from medieval England
51 mins
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Emmy Noether (Summer Repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas of one of the great 20th-century mathematicians
48 mins
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The return of the wolf
Wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone decades after they were wiped out in the US.
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Fearann do Ghaisgich
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Mar a bhris na fir a thill às a’ Chiad Chogadh tacan Ghriais is Chuil Uaraich a Leòdhas.
30 mins
World War 2: The Economic Battle
The Soviet Union
War and the Soviet economy from 1920 – 1940
14 mins
Throwback Thursday
22/08/2019
Christian Carlisle takes an in depth look at the rich musical heritage of the region.
180 mins
Witness History
The death of Brazil's Getulio Vargas
How the influential Brazilian leader took his own life rather than submit to the military
9 mins