The Rise and Fall of the Zulu Nation 15 Apr 10 Thu, 15 Apr 10 Duration: 43 mins Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Rise and Fall of the Zulu Nation. With Saul David, Shula Marks and Saul Dubow
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Melvyn Bragg and guests Usha Goswami, Annette Karmiloff-Smith and Denis Mareschal discuss what new research reveals about the infant brain.
Over the last ten to twenty years, new research has shed fresh light on important aspects of the infant brain which have long been shrouded in mystery or mired in dispute, from the way we start to learn to speak to the earliest understanding that other people have their own minds.
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Melvyn Bragg is joined by A.C. Grayling, Beatrice Han-Pile and Christopher Janaway to discuss the dark, pessimistic philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer, which set the tone for much twentieth century thought
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Melvyn Bragg discusses Logical Positivism, the radical early twentieth century philosophy movement which began in ‘Red’ Vienna and rejected much of past philosophy as not just false but meaningless. With Barry Smith, Nancy Cartwright and Thomas Uebel
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Melvyn Bragg discusses why revenge tragedy was so popular with Elizabethan theatre goers from Thomas Kyd’s Spanish tragedy to Shakespeare’s Hamlet. With Jonathan Bate, Janet Clare and Julie Sanders
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Melvyn Bragg is joined by guests Michael Clanchy, Nick Vincent and David Carpenter to discuss Magna Carta; the oft proclaimed foundation of English Liberties.
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Melvyn Bragg is joined by guests Frank Close, Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Ruth Gregory to discuss the Vacuum of Space.
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Melvyn Bragg is joined by guests Janet Hartley, Anthony Cross and Simon Dixon to discuss the founding and flourishing of Peter the Great’s alternative to Moscow
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Melvyn Bragg is joined by Simon Goldhill, Matthew Nichols and Serafina Cuomo to discuss the ancient Library of Alexandria - one of the most ambitious knowledge projects of its time
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Melvyn Bragg is joined by Roger Penrose, Basil Hiley and Simon Saunders to discuss the bizarre nature of atoms and the conundrum at the heart of quantum physics
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