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Code Breakers

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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Lessons For The Swinish Multitude

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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