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Serialised book readings, featuring works from various genres

Serialised book readings, featuring works of non-fiction, biography, autobiography, travel, diaries, essays, humour and history

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Gemma Jenkins

Penny Leicester

Yuval Noah Harari

Book of the Week: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind: The Agricultural Revolution

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

The Agricultural Revolution

BBC Radio 4 - Book of the Week, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, The Agricultural Revolution

How the agricultural revolution was history's biggest fraud.

How the agricultural revolution was history's biggest fraud. Adrian Scarborough reads Yuval Noah Harari's account of our history.

Adrian Scarborough continues reading from Yuval Noah Harari's ground-breaking account of humankind's remarkable history from insignificant apes to rulers of the world.
 
How the agricultural revolution was history's biggest fraud.
 
Abridged by Penny Leicester
Produced by Gemma Jenkins

Book of the Week: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

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Factual: History

Yuval Noah Harari's groundbreaking account of our history - from apes to world dominance.

Adrian Scarborough reads from Yuval Noah Harari's groundbreaking account of humankind's remarkable history, from insignificant apes to rulers of the world.

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