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43 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
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Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Adam Smith's celebrated economic treatise The Wealth of Nations. Show more
50 minutes
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas of the French political philosopher (1689-1755) whose work on liberty and republicanism, banned at home, influenced the US constitution. Show more
42 minutes
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Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Physiocrats, an important group of economic thinkers in 18th-century France. Show more
