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Radio 4,25 Jan 2010,45 mins

25/01/2010

Start the Week

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Andrew Marr discusses 'How to Live' with the help of Montaigne biographer Sarah Bakewell and the writer Will Self, the geneticist Steve Jones asks how much the mapping of the human genome really tells us about who we are, and the conductor Charles Hazlewood attempts to recapture the spirit of the 18th-century satire The Beggar's Opera.

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