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Cities on the Brink

The Essay

BBC news correspondents present personal perspectives on the capital cities of the major European powers that, later in 1914, would face each other in the First World War

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All available episodes (5 total)

  • Death in Trieste

    A 1760s murder still informs ideas about aesthetics, a certain sort of sex, and death.

  • Watch: My Deaf World

    Five compelling experiences of what it is like to be deaf in 21st-century Britain.

  • The Book that Changed Me

    Five figures from the arts and science introduce books that changed their lives and work.

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