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  1. The pressures of young musicianship

    Duration: 02:50

  2. 'Be like a Viking and crush the patriarchy'

    Duration: 02:35

  3. History’s most amazing ‘talking dogs’

    Duration: 02:40

  4. The genius of the Laurel and Hardy theme tune

    Duration: 03:53

  5. Did Mae West really have a liaison with Ho Chi Minh?

    Duration: 02:31

  6. How the simple snowflake revealed its beauty to science

    Duration: 03:13

  7. Prue Leith: ‘I used a teddy bear to practise killing lobsters’

    Duration: 02:06

  8. The surprisingly sexist history of artificial intelligence

    Duration: 01:45

  9. Royal Ballet's Steven McRae on dance idol Gene Kelly

    Duration: 04:19

  10. The man with no hands, who made models inside bottles

    Duration: 02:20

  11. Suffragettes on roller skates

    Duration: 02:05

  12. Is this the most personal political letter ever sent?

    Duration: 01:45

  13. Step inside a suffragette’s prison cell

    Duration: 02:54

  14. The man who tried to transmit electricity wirelessly

    Duration: 02:52

  15. The mysterious roots of fairy tales

    Duration: 02:46

  16. 'One Day' author: My failure as an actor allowed me to commit to writing

    Duration: 03:58

  17. Brian Blessed: Space Explorer

    Duration: 01:27

  18. In celebration of the humble bus stop

    Duration: 01:59

  19. Forget Santa: meet Iceland's Yule Lads

    Duration: 01:49

  20. What happens when The Thames freezes over?

    Duration: 02:23

  21. I’m not a Brontë but this is my territory - Jacqueline Wilson on Jane Eyre

    Duration: 02:26

  22. Vladimir Jurowski: discovering Buddhism after growing up in secular Russia

    Duration: 03:02

  23. Armando Iannucci - reacting against Bowie led me to Mahler

    Duration: 03:50

  24. The magic of the Moscow Metro

    Duration: 03:09

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