Melvyn Bragg
speaker
1,061 appearances
8 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2026
last heard 2d ago
Melvyn Bragg’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I don't think there's even time to go into all the things we didn't say, but some of the things we didn't say.
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But one of Plato's brothers asks him, gives him a challenge, gives Socrates a challenge, and does he answer?
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He said, if a just man ends up by being considered to be an unjust man and branded an unjust man, is that a better life than an unjust man who ends up being thought of as a just man and is branded a just
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says.
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No, more pleasant.
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More pleasant, OK, more pleasant.
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He says it's more pleasant.
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But he also says
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physical
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This add-on is really valued by people massively around us.
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One question I really, really burn into us.
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Do you think that the neat division of our minds into the three parts, he puts it so convincingly, is convincing?
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No.
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Neither
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This BBC
Hello, the Empress Dao Ja Sushi, eighteen thirty five to nineteen oh eight, was the dominant figure in the Chinese court for almost fifty years.
This was a time of rapid change and slow reform.
When Western powers and Japan humiliated China in war after war, and the ruling Qing dynasty could not or would not modernize fast enough.
Later generations blamed many of the failures on Su Xi, who arguably rule in her own interests more than China's, yet she's also gained credit for starting some reforms even if she didn't see them through.
With me to discuss the Empress Dai Su Xi are Yang Wen Zheng, Professor of Chinese history at the University of Manchester.
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