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' Quacks and Doctors

on BBC Radio 3

by ROY PORTER. Senior Lecturer in the Social History of Medicine, Wellcome Institute. What is 'proper' medicine and what is 'quackery'? History suggests that the division is not as clear-cut as orthodox practitioners would have us believe.

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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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