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12/07/2009: Part 1
KAREN ARMSTRONG on what religion really means. STEPHEN HOPPER, on the importance of the world’s ancient infertile landscapes. BRIAN CHIKWAVA on the psychology of performance in sport and writing.
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THE FORUM, the ideas programme presented this week by philosopher and classicist ANGIE HOBBS.
Religious commentator KAREN ARMSTRONG on what religion really means.
Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew in London, STEPHEN HOPPER, on the importance of the world’s ancient infertile landscapes.
Zimbabwean author BRIAN CHIKWAVA on the psychology of performance in sport and writing.
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