Mitch Benn on a man who not so much has been forgotten but rather DELIBERATELY written out of History…
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Irving Finkel and Florence Schecter on heroes of code breaking… ok, one translated ancient languages and the other helped crack the enigma code because of a typo. One man very good at translation was Jean-François Champollion and how he came to use the Rosetta Stone… a LOT of podcasts for your ears!
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Living in the iron age… tiny cows, holiday homes and fingerprint pots - a great interview with Julia Farley
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Dating objects, CT scanning and how big Data are changing the way we see the past!
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The most outrageous thing is that you have never heard of Emmy Noether and without her Einstein wouldn't be a thing.
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How was the Rosetta Stone translated and who did it?
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What woman links Sanskrit, The National Trust, Narnia and Catholicism?
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Why do we still get rape heckles?
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Does gender play a role in stage fright?
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The WORST DEATH of all time. Plus nearly getting hit by a pig in a drain. What stops London collapsing? Here is a clue... eat some prunes.
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Quit hiding your chest!
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How does Museum Design work? How do you communicate History through objects?
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Stupid technology is stupid :)
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Sin Eaters with Bob Mills
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A brief episode on Music Hall, St Paul and Winston Churchill's double.
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Teaching academics how to be funny aint no joke!
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British Museum Curator Ben Alsop on Thomas Spence: a tiny man from Newcastle. One of 19 children, invented a new method of reading, recommended living like a cat... started fights and created an entirely new constitution... plus edited the best named magazine of all time: 'Pigs' Meat - Lessons for the swinish multitude'.
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Who killed Cyrus the Great? Just some girl? Possibly...
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what do chicken feet taste like? Plus Radio 4 hangover cures.
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Episode 14 of The British Museum Membercast - plus picking up penguins and decapitating snakes!
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