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Tocqueville: Democracy in America (Summer Repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Alexis de Tocqueville's analysis of American democracy
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Bacteriophages
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how viruses can help us track and cure bacterial illnesses
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Monet in England
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Claude Monet's fascination with the foggy Thames.
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Karma
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the doctrine on how you answer for your own actions.
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Fielding's Tom Jones
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the great English comic novels.
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The Orkneyinga Saga
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Saga of the Earls of Orkney up to the 13th century.
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Marsilius of Padua
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the great figures in the history of political ideas
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Empress Dowager Cixi
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the woman who dominated China's court for almost 50 years.
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Philippa Foot
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century
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Sir Thomas Wyatt
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the astonishing poet at the heart of Henry VIII's court