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Review: Europe Reset
Society, Politics & Law

Review: Europe Reset

...course for European integration would be plotted, leaders spent a weekend talking earnestly about their desire to reconnect with ordinary people – yet they did so locked inside a castle, on a hilltop, cordoned off from the city and its inhabitants. What follows, however, is a well-evidenced and reasoned proposal for new forms of democratic participation in the European...
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Systems explained: Sir Geoffrey Vickers
Money & Business

Systems explained: Sir Geoffrey Vickers

...course of great general interest, because whatever else we do, we all live in this psycho social world. And we, all of us (I think) also suffer from a good deal of semantic pollution - misplaced ideas - many of which have got carried over by illicit extension from the natural sciences. So the end of the spectrum that concerns me, I think, really concerns us all. World...
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A brief history of sex education
Health, Sports & Psychology

A brief history of sex education

...courses and qualifications. There is still a great deal we don’t know about the history of sex education. The research that has been done is largely about school sex education during the 20th century. School sex education is important, yet most of us learn little of what we know about sex from our schooling. We learn it from friends, from family and, increasingly, from...
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Ice Cold In Alex
Science, Maths & Technology

Ice Cold In Alex

...course, they have to use the crank shaft of their 1930s truck to winch it backwards up the sand dune! Ingenius! But is it possible? Transcript Hollywood Science busters, Jonathan Hare and Robert Llewellyn, seek out an ageing Morris to prove their point with great success, but will it work with a 4 tonne truck? We set out to find out... Hand cranking is the old fashioned...
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Oedipus: The message in the myth
History & The Arts

Oedipus: The message in the myth

...course of action. An obvious example is the story, referred to repeatedly in the Odyssey, of how Agamemnon, the Greek commander-in-chief in the Trojan War, returned home after the War and was immediately murdered by his wife Clytemnestra and her paramour Aegisthus, and how in due course Agamemnon's murder was avenged by his son Orestes. Odysseus, too, is on his way home...
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Dirt, waste and revulsion: How cultures cope with leftovers and mess
Health, Sports & Psychology

Dirt, waste and revulsion: How cultures cope with leftovers and mess

...course pigs are dirty, full of infections and so there's a good scientific reason for doing it"' but, of course, the Old Testament doesn't say that at all, the Old Testament says that certain foods are taboo because they don't fit the proper categories. So fish can be eaten so long as they have scales and if they don't have scales are they fish or aren't they fish - they...
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Exploring Religion in London
History & The Arts

Exploring Religion in London

...course on the Sabbath and festivals the services are longer. There are services here every day of the week, 365 days of the year. There’s no actual ritual involved in the preparation for prayer. The principal thing you do when you come in for men is to cover their head. You show respect to God by having your head covered. The services are held in the main body of the...
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Expert opinion: Origins of the First World War
History & The Arts

Expert opinion: Origins of the First World War

...courses and qualifications In 2012, I recorded this audio in which two leading historians of the First World War discuss their subject, and in particular the question of the origins of the war, with me. Professor John Röhl and Professor Christopher Clark explain the fascination of the topic and give their differing views on why war broke out in 1914. John Röhl has spent...
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