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Episode 3: Two Cultures

Two Cultures

BBC Radio 4 - The Value of Culture, Two Cultures

Melvyn Bragg looks back at 150 years of dialogue between the arts and sciences.

Melvyn Bragg looks back at 150 years of dialogue between the arts and sciences, and the flashpoint known as the Two Cultures debate.

Melvyn Bragg considers the 150-year history of the Two Cultures debate. In 1959 the novelist C.P. Snow delivered a lecture in Cambridge suggesting that intellectual life had become divided into two separate cultures: the sciences and the humanities. The lecture is still celebrated for the furore it provoked - but Snow was returning to a battleground almost a century old. Melvyn Bragg visits the old Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, scene of many of modern science's greatest triumphs, to put the Two Cultures debate in its historical context - and Paul Nurse, President of the Royal Society, reveals the influence the Two Cultures debate had on his development as a scientist.

Producer: Thomas Morris.

Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

Melvyn Bragg explores the history of the idea of culture, and its value today.

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