🎧 Slavery with Professor Christer Petley
🎧 Dan Snow's History Hit • 28m
Dan chats to Christer Petley about slavery, focusing on one particularly virulent slave-owner called Simon Taylor, one of the most powerful men in Jamaica in the 18th century.
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🎧 Small Men on the Wrong Side of History
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🎧 Socrates and Love with Armand D'Angour
Armand D'Angour, a renowned classical scholar, has found new sources that Socrates in fact received many of his ideas, particularly those about love, from a woman he had an affair with. This is a new look at a man often considered the father of western philosophy, and Dan talks to Armand in depth...
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🎧 Solar Flares with Lucie Green
Lucie Green is a Royal Society University Research Fellow, Professor of Physics at University College London.;Dr Green's latest book is entitled 15 Million Degrees: A Journey to the Centre of the Sun.
