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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
    View More From Stephen Fry, Bettany Hughes, Lawrence Krauss and Martin Rees
  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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  4. Will Self: Truth, the internet and the individual
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    Will Self: Truth, the internet and the individual
  5. Frank Cotterell Boyce on the book that inspired the Olympic opening ceremony
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    Frank Cotterell Boyce on the book that inspired the Olympic opening ceremony
  6. Michael Sheen: The Welsh mining community that made the NHS possible
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    Michael Sheen: The Welsh mining community that made the NHS possible
  7. Bill Bailey: Why I love the collective nouns for birds
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    Bill Bailey: Why I love the collective nouns for birds
  8. Nadya Tolokno: I read The Gulag Archipelago in prison
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    Nadya Tolokno: I read The Gulag Archipelago in prison
  9. Tracey Emin: The Tent was misunderstood
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    Tracey Emin: The Tent was misunderstood
  10. Jeanette Winterson: We all need an education in love
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    Jeanette Winterson: We all need an education in love
  11. Will Self: The death of the novel?
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    Will Self: The death of the novel?
  12. Lucy Worsley: Did Jane Austen ever have sex?
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    Lucy Worsley: Did Jane Austen ever have sex?
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