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BBC Sounds Audio List

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Death in Venice

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Death in Venice is Thomas Mann’s most famous –....

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Oedipus Rex

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Sophocles’ play Oedipus Rex begins with a warnin....

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Mitochondria

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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the power-packs wi....

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Louis XIV: The Sun King

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In 1661 the 23 year-old French king Louis the XIV ....

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Virgil's Georgics

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In the year 29 BC the great Roman poet Virgil publ....

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The Shimabara Rebellion

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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Christian upri....

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The Dead Sea Scrolls

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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the revelatory col....

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Walt Whitman

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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the highly influen....

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Linnaeus

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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life, ideas an....

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The Battle of Crécy

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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the brutal events ....

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Cnut

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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Danish prince ....

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A Room of One's Own

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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Virginia Woolf's h....

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Solon the Lawgiver

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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Solon, who was ele....

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Mercantilism

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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how, between the ....

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The Ramayana

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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Ramayana, the ....

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Megaliths

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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss megaliths - huge s....

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Paul Erdős

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Paul Erdős (1913 – 1996) is one of the most cel....

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Stevie Smith

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In 1957 Stevie Smith published a poetry collection....

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Chartism

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On 21 May 1838 an estimated 150,000 people assembl....

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Tycho Brahe

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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the pioneering Dan....

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Superconductivity

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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the discovery made....

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Rawls' Theory of Justice

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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss A Theory of Justic....

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John Donne

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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Donne (1573-1631),....

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The Great Stink

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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the stench from th....