Intrigue and disinformation from the Russian Revolution to Ukraine invasion
Andrey Kurkov is Ukraine’s most celebrated novelist. When Russia invaded Ukraine he turned his...
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Intrigue and disinformation from the Russian Revolution to Ukraine invasion
Andrey Kurkov is Ukraine’s most celebrated novelist. When Russia invaded Ukraine he turned his...
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Time passing: ageing, memory and nostalgia
The Nobel prize winning molecular biologist Venki Ramakrishnan explores how time affects our...
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The plant Rafflesia has the world’s largest flowers and gives off one of the worst scents; it’s...
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Over the past 50 years, worldwide obesity rates have tripled, and now headlines increasingly...
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The journalist and broadcaster Ellen E. Jones explores the immense potential of film to challenge...
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Ancient Greece and Rome loom large in the understanding of the roots of Western Civilisation, but...
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Opium trade to synthetic opiates
The trade in opium formed a backdrop to Amitav Ghosh’s best-selling novels, The Ibis Trilogy. In...
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The history of glass-making dates back to at least 3,600 years ago in Mesopotamia, and both...
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The legal framework to prosecute war crimes and prohibit the use of ‘aggressive war’ came out of...
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The data analyst Hannah Ritchie challenges the doomsday climate scenarios dominating the...
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The Labour Party first took office on 22nd January 1924. In the century that followed it has only...
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Artificial Intelligence will be the focus of this year’s Royal Institution Christmas Lectures by...
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Small states: global impact and survival
With the fall of the Soviet Union, the theoretical physicist Armen Sarkissian returned home and...
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It’s play time on Start the Week. The mathematician Marcus Du Sautoy looks at the numbers behind...
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Tim Peake was the first British astronaut to visit the International Space Station, and is one of...
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The Impressionist painter Claude Monet wrote that he was driven ‘wild with the need to put down...
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Music – from page to performance
The award-winning composer Errollyn Wallen offers an insight into what it’s like to write a piece...
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China – its poetry and economy
In the winter of 770 the Chinese poet Du Fu wrote his final words, ‘Excitement gone, now nothing...
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The American singer-songwriter Natalie Merchant often uses fictional or mythological characters...
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Infected blood - from scandal to inquiry
The plasma product Factor VIII was heralded in the 1960s as a miracle treatment that helped those...
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VOA Newscasts - March 18, 2024
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VOA Newscasts - March 18, 2024
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VOA Newscasts - March 18, 2024
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VOA Newscasts - March 18, 2024
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Trapped in Oman
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James Lindsay (Encore)
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