Weekend Break

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Eine durchschnittliche Folge dieses Podcasts dauert 15m. Bisher sind 173 Folge(n) erschienen. Dieser Podcast erscheint wöchentlich.

Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 1 day 22 hours 13 minutes

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Protest piano


Free piano lessons in a London train station, and the pull of tide.


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 May 28, 2016  17m
 
 

A Journey to the Centre of the Sun


We speak to solar physicist Lucie Green about the sun, and a new instrument, The Hi Note.


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 May 22, 2016  15m
 
 

Male Members Only


The major Scottish golf course that refuses women members. And the joys of doggy cinema.


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 May 21, 2016  12m
 
 

Labours of Love: A History of Dating.


Has social media killed the romantic date? And the link between inequality and air rage.


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 May 15, 2016  19m
 
 

Eurovision 2016


Weekend looks ahead to Eurovision 2016, and also hears music made with the Eiffel Tower.


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 May 14, 2016  14m
 
 

Looking Back at the Great Leap Forward


Author Yan Lianke recalls China's epic human disaster. And new insights into Alzheimer's.


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 May 8, 2016  24m
 
 

Jewish Hijack Plot That Changed The Soviet Union


New documentary on Jewish dissidents who tried to flee the USSR, and sexism in the lab


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 May 7, 2016  13m
 
 

Chronicling the Tyrannosaurs


New book on predator dinosaurs, and the murderous history of Bible translations.


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 May 1, 2016  14m
 
 

How To Be Respectable In British Society.


Why social class matters so much in Britain. And a story of oblivion in post-war Angola.


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 April 30, 2016  18m
 
 

Can We Work Less?


Why older people should work just 25 hours a week. And the forgotten women composers.


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 April 24, 2016  19m