Burials at Highgate Cemetery
Highgate Cemetery is a place of burial in north London, England. There are approximately 170,000 people buried in around 53,000 graves across the West and East Cemeteries.
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Christina Rossetti
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1 December 2011
Featuring: Dinah Birch, Rhian Williams, Nicholas Shrimpton
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Melvyn Bragg discusses Karl Marx who once said that while other philosophers wanted to interpret the world, he wanted to change it. And he changed the world with his Communist Manifesto.
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Featuring: A. C. Grayling, Francis Wheen, Gareth Stedman Jones
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Michael Faraday, the most famous British scientist of the 19th century.
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Featuring: Geoffrey Cantor, Laura Herz, Frank James
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