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Oaths, Olympic Games, Opium, Passing Bell, Pawn-broking, Polygamy, The Poor and Priapus. Looking at the letters O and P in the series which scours old encyclopaedias to give a flavour of the period in which they were written.

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大象传媒 World Service Archive

This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project