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Today's quote:

Saturday, November 13, 2021

In our time

Read the book here.

 

Mervyn Bragg's "In Our Time" series regularly enlightens and entertains substantial audiences on BBC Radio 4. Here are several episodes which reflect the diversity of this excellent radio programmes:

 

Language and the Mind

Dante's Inferno

The Dissolution of the Monasteries

The Spanish Armada

The Norman Yoke

The Peasants' Revolt

Social Darwinism

The Inca

The Song of Roland

The Emancipation of the Serfs

William and Caroline Herschel

The Rosetta Stone

Doggerland

Islamic Law and its Origins

Sunni and Shia Islam

Frankenstein

 

And there are so many more! Simply search for them on YouTube.


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