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Take part in a live recording of our Science Weekly podcast at the Royal Institution - the Guardian
The Guardian's Science Weekly podcast will be recorded live at the Royal Institution in London at 7pm on Wednesday 28 March, with special guests, demonstrations and lots of audience participation
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Robert Harris on Fatherland - the Guardian
Writer Robert Harris discusses how realpolitik may have led western governments to gloss over the Nazis' crimes if Hitler had won the second world war. This is an excerpt from Harris's discussion of Fatherland with John Mullan at the...
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Robert Harris on Selling Hitler - the Guardian
Writer Robert Harris discusses the ideas and inspiration behind his 1986 book Selling Hitler: The Story of the Hitler Diaries, which marked his transition from non-fiction to fiction writing. This is an excerpt from the Guardian Book...
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Robert Harris on fact and fiction - the Guardian
Writer Robert Harris tells how all his imaginary work has a basis in fact - even his childhood imaginings were based on reality. This is an excerpt from the Guardian Book Club's discussion of Harris's novel Fatherland at the Guardian...
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Robert Harris on the reception to Fatherland - the Guardian
Writer Robert Harris talks about the reaction from the Jewish community and in Germany to his novel Fatherland, which imagines a world in which Hitler had won the war. This is an excerpt from the Guardian Book Club's discussion at the...
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Robert Harris on reading Fatherland - the Guardian
Writer Robert Harris tells John Mullan why readers might enjoy reading about a world in which Hitler had won the second world war. This is an excerpt from the Guardian Book Club's discussion of Harris's novel Fatherland at the Guardian...
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Credit unions: money with morals
Credit unions: money with morals John Harris visits south Wales and meets savers and staff at Dragon Savers, one of the credit unions offering an alternative to the big banks, doorstep lenders and online loan companies
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Guardian Books podcast: Writers and the British landscape - the Guardian
As the British Library exhibition Writing Britain opens, curators Jamie Andrews and Tanya Kirk guide us through the imaginative territories writers have carved out from these British Isles http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/series/books
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G8 summit at Camp David
G8 summit at Camp David Subscribe to the Guardian HERE: http://bitly.com/UvkFpD In the runup to the G8 summit at Camp David, political scientist Ian Bremmer explains why the US is no longer prepared to play the role of global policeman...
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Guardian Books podcast: Philosophical nonsense - the Guardian
Two hundred years after the birth of Edward Lear, Michael Rosen celebrates his literary legacy, while we return to another classic of children's philosophy, Norton Juster's The Phantom Tollbooth
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David Harvey interview - the Guardian
David Harvey, theorist and author, talks about how urban and suburban expansion is used to rescue capitalism from recession -- but ends up sending it back into crisis
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Horse riding in Iceland with Marcel Theroux
Horse riding in Iceland with Marcel Theroux Reykjavik may be at the cutting edge of cool but in rural Iceland, ancient traditions are still observed. Travel writer Marcel Theroux heads to the north of the country for the annual horse...
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Transit of Venus from the Gold Coast, Australia
Viewing the transit of Venus in Australia using a telescope and a piece of cardboard
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David Harvey video interview
David Harvey video interview Subscribe to the Guardian HERE: http://bitly.com/UvkFpD David Harvey compares the Occupy movement to the Paris commune and concludes its aims are similar: to take back and reshape the cities to which its...
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Gaza fishermen: 'We are no longer fishermen, we've become traders'
Gaza fishermen: 'We are no longer fishermen, we've become traders' Fishermen explain how they have resorted to buying fish smuggled through tunnels from Egypt, unable to fish in their own waters
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Bianca Jagger: video interview
Social, environmental and human rights activist Bianca Jagger discusses the lack of commitment shown in some quarters to the forthcoming Rio+20 Earth summit
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Guardian Books podcast: Fiction that pushes at the limits of design
Can graphic design help novelists tell stories fit for a visual age, or is the future of fiction to be found in traditional narrative?
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Guardian Books podcast: Latin American novels and poetry
The death of Carlos Fuentes sounded the end of the Latin American Boom. But who are the South American writers following in the footsteps of Márquez and Vargas Llosa, and what next for the continent's poets?
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Guardian Books podcast: Minority language literature
What riches are to be found in the lesser-known languages of Europe? We talk to Clive Boutle and Paul Gubbins about the pleasures of publishing on the edge, and welcome the poet Gillan Clarke, who is headlining a festival of poetry and...
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A dying breed: John Harris goes canvasing with Labour
John Harris hits the streets with Labour party members on the Doddington estate in Battersea as they campaign to save a playground. A Democratic Audit report says party membership is in decline. So are these canvassers pursuing a lost...
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Inside Team GB's Medal Factories: Swimming
Swimming correspondent Andy Bull suggests who to look out for in Team GB at the Aquatics Centre this summer. Along with Rebecca Adlington, the most recognisable name on the team, are a host of top female swimmers including Keri-Anne...
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Swimming: an instant expert's guide to the Olympic sport
Swimming: an instant expert's guide to the Olympic sport. Olympic 100m and 200m breaststroke hopeful Michael Jamieson explains the rules of Olympic competition. The Glasgow-born swimmer also talks about seeding; the importance of getting...
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Elizabeth Streb's One Extraordinary Day in London
The US choreographer Elizabeth Streb has unleashed her daredevil dancers around London in a one-off Olympics-inspired project. Commissioned by the mayor and the London 2012 festival, the event was billed as a 'performance of power,...
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Guardian Books podcast: Writers as readers
Guardian Books podcast: Writers as readers Subscribe to the Guardian HERE: http://bitly.com/UvkFpD Every writer is first a reader -- a solitary experience which Siri Hustvedt addresses head on in her latest collection of essays.