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BBC Radio 4 Alert

Three programmes, one passed, two upcoming, on the Beeb’s spoken word channel might be of interest to our readers.

Yesterday’s In Our Time covered Henry Thoreau – the American philosopher and naturalist previously discussed here on the Voice in one of our extracts from the Dictionary of Liberal Thought. In Our Time is one of very few Radio 4 programmes where past programmes are available in perpetuity. Currently the link is here.

Happily More or Less, a half-hour programme discussing the maths and statistics currently making the news, is another of those programmes where they leave previous …

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