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In Our Time - The Riddle of the Sands - BBC Sounds

In Our Time - The Riddle of the Sands - BBC Sounds

The Riddle of the SandsThe Riddle of the Sands

Released On: 12 Jun 2008

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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the prescient thriller about Anglo-German relations.

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Godel's Incompleteness Theorems
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Vitalism
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Dante's Inferno
Melvyn Bragg examines Dante’s ‘Inferno’, a medieval journey through Hell’s nine circles
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Aristotle's Politics
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Neuroscience
Melvyn Bragg examines neuroscience, the relationship between the mind and the brain.
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The Baroque Movement
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The Great Reform Act
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Great Reform Act of 1832.
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The Fire of London
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Great Fire of London and the rebuilding of the city.
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The Physics of Time
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the physics of time.
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The Consolations of Philosophy
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the consolation of Philosophy.
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Thoreau and the American Idyll
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the philosopher and naturalist Henry David Thoreau.
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History of History
Melvyn Bragg examines how the writing of history has changed over the years.
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Swift's A Modest Proposal
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Jonathan Swift's satirical 1729 pamphlet A Modest Proposal
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The Brothers Grimm
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Carthage's Destruction
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The Observatory at Jaipur
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Jacobean thinker Francis Bacon and Baconian Science.
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