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Mary Beard's Roman Empire

Some of the wildest stories about Roman emperors involve playing the violin while watching the city burn, and appointing a horse as consul. Classicist Mary Beard is fascinated by how much truth there could be to these tales

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  The soup bar saving lives

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  How our brains use autocorrect

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  Nick Cave's broken-hearted optimism

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  Terry's long goodbye

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  Learning to read with Manisha Gazula

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  Mother Courage

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  ANZAC Day: letters from the front

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  How Rhonda defied expectations

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  Dr Sutapa Mukherjee on how to sleep well

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  Ray and the great language recovery

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  Theologian Pádraig Ó Tuama on making peace and living in poetry

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  Carly-Jay on dying, living, and learning to breathe

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  A portrait of Peter Dutton

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  The secret life of slime mould

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  Bettany Hughes takes you to the hottest sightseeing spots of the ancient w…

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  Finding a new version of family