Nice. This week's #BBCInOurTime is about #PaulErdos. Looking forward to listening to the discussion.

#Mathematics #maths

The ancient Sanskrit text the #Arthashastra (IV-III B.C.), regarded as one of the major works of Indian literature and written in the style of a scientific treatise, provides rulers with a guide on #howtogovern their territory and sets out what the structure, economic policy and foreign affairs of the ideal state should be.
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https://open.spotify.com/episode/6uTvc1jnkmZP0h2I1uudkD?si=Teg8p7MSQVybOT7_N5qyJg

#history #India
#podcast
#BBCinOurTime

https://t.co/8hMBvWlsn9 Prof Karen O'Brien, Prof Fiona Stafford and Paddy Bullard on #BBCInOurTime with #MelvynBragg Thu 22 Dec 9am #BBCRadio4, then #BBCSounds discussing #JaneAusten's #Persuasion. A pre-#Christmas treat. Only the #bbc does this. Free to hear, funded by <44p a day per household licence fee. Because we’re worth it. “My idea of good company..is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of #conversation..”

"It was in the 4th century BC, in Athens, that #Demosthenes delivered these speeches against the tyrant Philip II of Macedon, father of Alexander the Great ... Demosthenes feared his fellow citizens were set on appeasement..."
#ThePhilippics

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#history #podcast
#BBCinOurTime

https://open.spotify.com/episode/2UB9j05gBdT4L7USzptmhZ?si=08EEeDfISF2PiWx9cpXTNQ&utm_source=copy-link

#bbcinourtime #podcast #ireland

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001fwb9?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile

The following years saw #JonathanSwift write his masterpiece "Gulliver's Travels" and the remarkable and still shocking "A Modest Proposal" #BBCInOurTime https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00h3650

And a host of other pamphlets, poems and sermons.

Swift made enemies but also many friends, including a coterie of literary women whom he encouraged and supported, and who defended him in return after his death.
https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2019/04/07/the-triumfeminate-and-other-dublin-women-swifts-female-senate/
#triumfeminate #WomensWriting