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The British EmpireThe British Empire

Released On: 08 Nov 2001

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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ethos and legacy of the British Empire.

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Melvyn Bragg and guests assess the role that Rome has played in European civilization.
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The cultural history of food in Modern Europe since the Renaissance.
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Sensibility
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Nuclear Physics
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Catharism
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Happiness
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Melvyn Bragg explores the strange and mystical world of the Irish poet W B Yeats.
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The Universe's Shape
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the shape, size and topology of the universe.
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Anatomy
The 2000 year old history of mankind's quest to understand the human body.
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The Celts
Melvyn Bragg examines what we really know about the Celts of pre-Roman Britain.
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Virtue
Melvyn Bragg explores the meaning and purpose of the philosophical concept of virtue.
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Melvyn Bragg examines both the literary and political careers of the poet John Milton.
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Marriage
The history of marriage from ancient Greek and Babylonian times to today.
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The Artist
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Extra Terrestrials
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss our chances of ever discovering life on another planet.
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Bohemia
The history of the ancient kingdom and its religious, national and ethnic ideologies.
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