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In this episode, Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the rise and abrupt fall of this famous military order which was founded around 1119: they were a strong fighting force and financial power for almost 200 years, until they were persecuted out of existence. Their legend has lived on, featuring in novels, films and video games, including Assassin’s Creed.Melvyn and a team of experts gather to explore Emily Brontë’s only novel, published in 1847, a year before her death.
Recording the Bauhaus episode in 2022 with Robin Schuldenfrei, Tangen Reader in 20th Century Modernism at The Courtauld Institute of Art; Alan Powers, History Leader at the London School of Architecture and Michael White, Professor of the History of Art at the University of YorkBorn into slavery in Maryland in 1818, Douglass escaped to become a prominent abolitionist, and a brilliant orator and campaigner, attracting vast audiences.
The Mitochodria team : Mike Murphy, Professor of Mitochondrial Redox Biology at the University of Cambridge; Florencia Camus, NERC Independent Research Fellow at University College London, and Nick Lane, Professor of Evolutionary Biochemistry at University College London.This episode explores the life and ideas of the writer and philosopher Hannah Arendt, whose thinking was partly shaped by her experiences as a Jew in Nazi Germany, before her escape to France and then America.
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