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28 minutes
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Julian Worricker on playwright Sir Peter Shaffer, physicist Sir Denys Wilkinson, dancer Peggy Spencer and boxer Muhammad Ali. Show more
43 minutes
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Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the photon, the fundamental particle associated with light. Show more
49 minutes
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the growing understanding of the Proton, found in the nuclei of all elements and, with three quarks, balancing the charge of a single electron. Show more
48 minutes
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the key principles in quantum mechanics, the Pauli Exclusion Principle, and the life and ideas of Wolfgang Pauli who proposed it. Show more
43 minutes
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how the laws of thermodynamics put a stop to the idea perpetual motion. Show more
46 minutes
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the neutron in the atomic nucleus, in the laboratory and in the densest stars. Show more
