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The Urge to Discover

on BBC Radio 3

Daniel Boorstin , Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and Librarian of Congress, talks about his new book, The
Discoverers 'A History of Man's Search to Know the World and Himself, with Philip French, and discusses its relationship to his trilogy The Americans and his 1975 Reith Lectures.

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Daniel Boorstin

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Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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