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Obituary series with Julian Worricker, remembering politician Tony Benn, actor James Ellis, oceanographer Dr Peter Rona, pianist Marion Thorpe and union leader Bob Crow. Show more
4 Extra Debut. Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss George Orwell's Animal Farm, which he struggled to publish in WW2 as the USSR was an ally. From 2016. Show more
28 minutes
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Aasmah Mir on flamenco guitarist Paco de Lucia, fire safety expert Dr Frank Rushbrook, artist Rose Finn-Kelcey, Major General Logan Scott-Bowden and film director Alain Resnais. Show more
28 minutes
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Matthew Bannister remembers folk singer and activist Pete Seeger, architect Kathryn Findlay, British Steel chairman Sir Bob Scholey and Hong Kong movie mogul Sir Run Run Shaw. Show more
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Matthew Bannister on actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, journalist Ron Hall, Motown records executive Anna Gordy Gaye, boxing administrator Jose Sulaiman and micro-brewer Peter Austin. Show more
28 minutes
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Matthew Bannister on footballer Sir Tom Finney, comedian Sid Caesar, climber and broadcaster Ian McNaught-Davis, Dutch health minister Els Borst and tennis champion Louise Brough. Show more
28 minutes
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Obituaries. Matthew Bannister on sociologist Professor Stuart Hall, ballet dancer Jean Babilée, Bristol car maker Tony Crook and child star turned diplomat Shirley Temple Black. Show more
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Matthew Bannister on Tory fundraiser Lord McAlpine, broadcasting campaigner Jocelyn Hay, poet Amiri Baraka, runner and MP Sir Christopher Chataway, and conductor Claudio Abbado. Show more
28 minutes
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Obituary series. Aasmah Mir remembers primatologist Alison Jolly, concert pianist Alice Herz-Sommer, cosmonaut Valeri Kubasov, writer Mavis Gallant and director Harold Ramis. Show more
43 minutes
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Andrew Marr discusses mortality and longevity with surgeon Atul Gawande, novelist and editor Diana Athill, medical ethicist Prof Deborah Bowman and historian Dr Carl Watkins. Show more
43 minutes
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Tom Sutcliffe discusses hedonism with RSC artistic director Greg Doran, sociologist Julia Twigg, science writer Zoe Cormier and Classics lecturer Kurt Lampe. Show more
43 minutes
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Tom Sutcliffe with Russell Brand on revolution, David Babbs on campaigning, philosopher Susan Neiman on redefining maturity and Juliet Barker on the Great Revolt of 1381. Show more
43 minutes
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Andrew Marr discusses sense of place with singer Ian Bostridge, artist Victoria Crowe, writer Philip Marsden and lecturer Joanne Parker. Show more
43 minutes
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Tom Sutcliffe discusses the Tudors with Antonia Fraser, Peter Kosminsky, Claire van Kampen and Dan Jones. Show more
43 minutes
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Tom Sutcliffe on science fiction, with speculative fiction writer William Gibson, novelist Michel Faber, Prof Judy Wajcman on technology and historian Dominic Sandbrook. Show more
43 minutes
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Tom Sutcliffe with Jules Pretty on extinction, Andreas Wagner on evolution's greatest puzzle, Ruth Padel on learning from animals and Chris Stringer on lost human species. Show more
43 minutes
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Tom Sutcliffe with Danielle George, this year's RI Christmas lecturer, John Barrow on maths and arts, Armand Leroi on Aristotle and science, and Misbah Arif on science teaching. Show more
43 minutes
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Tom Sutcliffe discusses Napoleon with historians Andrew Roberts, Sudhir Hazareesingh and Jenny Uglow and musicologist Gavin Plumley. Show more
43 minutes
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Tom Sutcliffe discusses surveillance and self-censorship with poet Paul Muldoon, cultural historian Catriona Kelly, Bentham expert Philip Schofield and blogger Cory Doctorow. Show more
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how mathematicians in the Islamic world, from C8th-C15th, developed new ideas and synthesised ideas from Greek and Indian maths. Show more
