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Stephen Fry: We all just need to grow up
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Fry details why modern culture is immature and explains why we must think for ourselves.
  1. Stephen Fry: We all just need to grow up
    03:18
    Stephen Fry: We all just need to grow up
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  2. Bettany Hughes: Why we tell ourselves stories
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    Bettany Hughes: Why we tell ourselves stories
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  3. Stephen Fry: The Enlightenment bit itself on the backside
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    Stephen Fry: The Enlightenment bit itself on the backside
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  6. Helen Fielding: I can say it now, Bridget Jones was me
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  7. Bettany Hughes on the slave girl who negotiated with Elizabeth I
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    Bettany Hughes on the slave girl who negotiated with Elizabeth I
  8. Lemn Sissay: Why foster care kids make great heroes
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    Lemn Sissay: Why foster care kids make great heroes
  9. Lucy Worsley: What did Jane Austen REALLY look like?
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    Lucy Worsley: What did Jane Austen REALLY look like?
  10. Jeanette Winterson: We all need an education in love
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    Jeanette Winterson: We all need an education in love
  11. Garry Kasparov: Deep Blue was as intelligent as an alarm clock
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    Garry Kasparov: Deep Blue was as intelligent as an alarm clock
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