In Our Time

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• From Nero to zero

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• Fabulous flights

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• The wave: the world’s first viral image

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• In Our Time - Little Women

  Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Louisa May Alcott's influential story of the March sisters

  Duration: 41:49

• "Especially to us reading now, that seems like a massive hole in the book. It seems ridiculous."

  An In Our Time panel on George Orwell's portrayal of Proles in Nineteen Eighty-Four.

  Duration: 3:19

• 'It remains shocking today'

  Matthias Wivel and Sarah Vowles explain the Sistine Chapel's captivating altar wall

  Duration: 1:16

• 'Romeo is slightly ridiculous in the early scenes'

  Prof Helen Hackett explains Romeo's melancholy in the first part of Shakespeare's play.

  Duration: 2:10
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