Melvyn Bragg
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958 appearances
7 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2026
last heard 6d ago
Melvyn Bragg’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But that doesn't only apply to women, particularly.
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Linus Pauline in quite enough, did we?
Can you just say a bit more for those listening to this about why Linus Pauline was hovering in the background, threatening to hover in the foreground?
You think Wilkins should have declined when uh
Watson asked for a look at the photographs.
Republic, written around 380 BC, explores whether it's always better to be just than unjust and is seen as a cornerstone of Western philosophy.
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It takes the form of a dialogue between Plato's teacher Socrates and his companions and is set around 430 BC, since when Athens had teetered between tyranny and direct democracy and, as a democracy, had put Socrates to death.
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One companion argues that we would all behave unjustly if we could get away with it.
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To address this, Socrates imagines what a perfectly just city would be like and applies lessons from that to the individual soul.
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And if the soul is best ruled by reason, he argues the city would be best ruled by philosophers.
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With me to discuss Plato's Republic are Angela Hobbes, Professor of the Public Understanding of Philosophy at the University of Sheffield,
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M.M.
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McCabe, Professor of Ancient Philosophy, Emerita at King's College London, and James Warren, a fellow of Corpus Christi College and a reader in Ancient Philosophy at the University of Cambridge.
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James Warren, what was the political situation in Athens when Plato was writing The Republic?
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voting.
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Every male, free man.
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Yeah,
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Let's just get down briefly.
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Why do I say briefly?
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