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 Moran: A Country in the Moon [21:07m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

My guest on this week’s programme is Michael Moran, author of A Country in the Moon: Travels in Search of the Heart of Poland.
Michael first visited Poland in the early 1990s after the collapse of Communism as leader of an ill-assorted crew of British teachers charged with introducing the Poles to the delights of market […]

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I have begun asking my interviewees to recommend a book which is a particular favourite of theirs.
First up is Jan Zalasiewicz, who appeared in programme 34, “After We’ve Gone”, talking about his book, The Earth after Us. Here is his book choice:
When one digs for a living amid the rubble of deep geological time, then […]

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 Halliwell: Greek Laughter [27:41m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

“I’m trying to use laughter as a kind of prism, I suppose, through which to examine certain features of the broader culture…
“Greeks talk a lot about laughter and so there are a lot of perceptions and representations of laughter in prose texts and poetic texts… It’s used all over the place, it’s referred to, it’s […]

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Atlantic Books have just published Vic Reeves’ Vast Book of World Knowledge, and last Tuesday I visited him at home in Kent to make this short film. I put up a rough cut last week; now here is the final version:

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