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In Our Time - The Eye - BBC Sounds

In Our Time - The Eye - BBC Sounds

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Released On: 27 Feb 2014

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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of ideas about the eye and how it works.

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Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the science of the sun, source of all our energy.
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