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Start the Week - 13/12/2010
Andrew Marr talks to the conductor Semyon Bychkov about Tannhauser, Wagner's tortured artist, out of place in conventional society. While the scientist Mark Miodownik takes a measure of the world, and asks 'Does size matter?' in this year's Royal Institution Christmas Lectures. Author Susan Hill ponders kindness, grief and miracles and the television screenwriter Tony Jordan forsakes EastEnders to take on 'the greatest story ever told', the Nativity. Producer: Katy Hickman.
The History of Rome - 119- Restitutor Orbis
Aurelian defeated the breakaway western provinces and reunified the Empire in 274 AD. The next year he was assassinated by officers who had been tricked into committing murder.
Cato Daily Podcast - Persistent Trade Myths
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More or Less: Behind the Stats - Degrees of Debt
We look at the numbers behind the increase in the cap on undergraduate tuition fees in England. Are the changes fair and progressive? Are they dropping future students into a deep hole of debt? Or are they both?
Cato Daily Podcast - Consumer Debt to Government Debt
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Cato Daily Podcast - Quantitative Easing: You’re Soaking in It
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Cato Daily Podcast - Unwritten Stories and Uncertainty in Financial Crisis
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Start the Week - 06/12/2010
Andrew Marr talks to the choreographer Matthew Bourne about his vision for Cinderella, while the dance critic, Jennifer Homans sounds the death knell for ballet in her history of the art form. David Aaronovitch also asks whether Freud has had his heyday, in his examination of the continuing significance of the father of psycho-analysis, while the psychotherapist, Jane Haynes, celebrates the enduring appeal and relevance of Proust.
Producer: Katy Hickman.
The History of Rome - 118- The Palmyrene Wars
In 272 Aurelian finally managed to bring the east back under Roman control by defeating Queen Zenobia of Palmyra.