Episode summary: Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and ideas of one of the great historians, best known for his History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (published 1776-89). According to Gibbon (1737-94) , the idea for this work came to him on 15th of October 1764 as he sat musing...

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Episode summary: In the United Kingdom, the freedom to walk through private land is known as “the right to roam.” The movement to win this right was started in the 1930s by a rebellious group of young people who called themselves “ramblers” and spent their days working in the factories of Manchester...

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Episode summary: The Food Programme first met Iain Broadley and Ally Jaffee in 2017, when they were studying medicine in Bristol. The pair saw a disconnect between the rise of diet-related diseases, and the training they received around nutrition - with some students getting as little as eight hours...

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Episode summary: Each sip of coffee we drink is steeped in dark colonial past. The reason we can enjoy it every morning is because it’s relatively cheap, and many people suffered under European colonisers to create systems that produced this cheap coffee. But unfortunately, that’s just the beginning...

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Episode summary: To find out where a virus comes from, researchers compare it to other viruses to try to trace its origin. This leads to claims like SARS-CoV-2 is 91 or even 96% similar to other known viruses. But what does that really mean? Tim Harford talks to the virus ecologist Marilyn J Roossin...

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Episode summary: In the first of a short series of episodes, Helen and David do their best to answer your questions about anything and everything. Here, it’s the geopolitics of vaccines, Germany as a ‘useful idiot’, the Great Game in the 21st century, oil prices, green finance and the risks and rewa...

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Episode summary: Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures about our connection to the land. The devastation of bushfires in south eastern Australia, the significance of the acorn for tribal members from the Konkow Nisenan Maidu Nations, and the storyteller Richard O’Neill on the...

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Episode summary: Your host talks with Louis Menand about his new book “The Free World, Art and Thought in the Cold War” Radiotopia is a network of creators who are able to follow their curiosity and tell the stories they care about the most. Show your support for my fellow Radiotopia shows during ou...

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