Melvyn Bragg

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21Death / Ancient Greek philosophers / Afterlife / Philosophical movements / Soul / Philosophy of self / Nous / Immortality / Plato / Philosophy / Religion / Vitalism

In our Time Programme 106 The Soul Melvyn Bragg : Hello, in "Sailing to Byzantium" WB Yeats wrote, "an aged man is but paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing. Fo

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Language: English - Date: 2002-07-05 06:14:20
22Science studies / DNA replication / Memetics / The Selfish Gene / Geneticists / Gene / Richard Dawkins / Unweaving the Rainbow / Gregor Mendel / Biology / Science / Genetics

In our Time Programme 85 Genetics Melvyn Bragg : ....characteristics were passed on when the next when the next crop of peas were grown. In this slow and systematic way, Gregor Mendel worked out the basic law of heredi

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Language: English - Date: 2002-07-05 05:43:21
239 / Nationality / Theodore Zeldin / Christina McKinney / Christina Milian

In our Time Programme 51 Childhood Melvyn Bragg : Hello, St Paul wrote of the Corinthians, "When I was a child I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I though as a child, but when I became a man I put away childis

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Language: English - Date: 2002-07-05 05:41:59
24Philosophy of physics / Lee Smolin / Causality / Quantum measurement / Albert Einstein / Time travel / Theoretical physics / Roger Penrose / Quantum mechanics / Physics / Science / Cosmologists

In our Time Programme 54 Time Melvyn Bragg : Hello, at the end of the last century, HG Wells imagined travelling through time in "The Time Machine", the palpitation of night and day merged into one continuous granus. "

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Language: English - Date: 2002-07-05 05:42:05
25Science / 21st Century / Morality without religion / Biology / Evolutionary biology / Science of morality / Hilary Tachibana / Morality / Stephen Jay Gould / 9

In our Time Programme 79 Science and Religion Melvyn Bragg : Hello, what space should science leave to religion? What ground should religion give to science? Do they need to give ground to each other at all? The American

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Language: English - Date: 2002-07-05 05:42:54
26Quantum mind / Philosophy of mind / Neuropsychology / Consciousness / Determinists / Ted Honderich / Roger Penrose / Strong AI / 9 / Cognitive science / Mind / Science

In our Time Programme 49 Consciousness Melvyn Bragg : Well, we could have had a better start than hearing about England cricket to tell you the truth! Anyway.....erm one of the greatest mysteries facing science and phil

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Language: English - Date: 2002-07-05 05:41:55
27Romanticism / Giorgio Vasari / Sistine Chapel / Western art history / Visual arts / Arts / Michelangelo

In our Time Programme 97 The Artist Melvyn Bragg: Hello. The sculptors who created the statues of ancient Greece were treated with disdain by their contemporaries, who saw the menial task of chipping images out of stone

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Language: English - Date: 2002-07-05 05:44:46
289 / Television in the United Kingdom / Genius / Giftedness / Intelligence

In our Time Programme 74 Nature of Genius Melvyn Bragg : Hello, "When true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that dunces are all in confederacy against him", so said Jonathan Swift, many people

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Language: English - Date: 2002-07-05 05:42:35
29Place of birth missing / Global warming / Global warming controversy / The Great Global Warming Swindle / Climate change / Environment / George Monbiot

In our Time Programme 55 Global Climate Melvyn Bragg : Hello, and happy new year to a new time. Last year the weather gave our planet a terrible beating, at least 16, 000 people lost their lives, as a result of storms.

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Language: English - Date: 2002-07-05 05:42:09