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[rtoc] Music Played Add music you love and enjoy it with My Tracks Musica Polyphonica Marche en rondeau (feat. Louis Devos) Ensemble Venance Fortunat, Anne-Marie Deschamps Ton 1 Visionem quam vidistis Monthabor Music. Os Curunchos Foliada de Campelo DB World Sessions. Malay Ahmed Lukili. Brwala al-Anas Lukili. Wolf Biermann Am Brandenburg Tor Liederproduktion. W A …

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Through a Glass Darkly

[rtoc]Music Played Add music you love and enjoy it with My Tracks Björk All Is Full Of Love   Michael Jackson Man in the Mirror     St Chad’s Cathedral Choir Teach Me My God And King     Frances Lipton Mirror Song   Readings Title:                The Fall of Utopia      Author:            Michael Symmons Roberts …

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Work

[rtoc]Nailmaking By Liz Berry From Black Country, Chatto & Windus Published by Chatto   Daily Wages By Amrita Pritam Translated by Charles Brash From Soul Food Published by Bloodaxe Books   Leisure (from Songs of Joy and Others) By WH Davies From A Book of Nature Poems Published by Viking Press   The Workbox By …

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Zadok

[rtoc] 02:15 SH on lyrics 03:00 On immigrants to Britain becoming more British than the British themselves [/rtoc]

Amazing Grace

[rtoc] 00:00 As used in Civil Rights struggle “It made them uncomfortable, as it was a song they sang in their church”. 05:00 Original tune 06:00 Addition of last verse out of “Jerusalem, my happy home” 23:00 Use in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan [/rtoc]

Maths in the Early Islamic World

[rtoc] 01:00 CRD Babylonians. From 3000-200BC. Before Islam. Corn yields. Digging canals. Astronomy. Algorithmic. Base 60: hence 60 seconds, 360 degrees. 04:20 CRD Indians. 800BC-1200AD. Astronomy and religion. Interest in v big numbers. Often handed down in poetical / oral phrases. 05:30 JAK Omayyads early: not v scholarly. Abbasids C8: Persian, Indian, Greek texts started …

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Somewhere

00:12:00 Sondheim on why he thinks it’s a tune that shouldn’t have a lyric