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    Black and white close-up photo of a lizard with its tongue extended, about to catch a worm. The background is dark and blurred.

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    Evolution

    The many ways a lizard tongue sticks, grasps, pinches and plops – in slo-mo

    6 minutes

    Photo of a man speaking at a podium marked ‘Letters Live’, gesturing with one hand against a dark background.

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    Fairness and equality

    ‘To my old master’ – a freed slave answers the request to return to his old plantation

    7 minutes

    Ceramic vase with yellow snake handles blue clouds and text detail in a workshop setting.

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    Design and fashion

    A ceramicist puts her own bawdy spin on the folk language of pottery

    14 minutes

    Photo of a gibbon mother holding her baby in a lush green forest setting.

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    Animals and humans

    Villagers struggle to keep their beloved, endangered ape population afloat

    19 minutes

    Surreal abstract painting with eyes, lips and leaf shapes in soft colours on paper.

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    Art

    Radical doodles – how ‘exquisite corpse’ games embodied the Surrealist movement

    15 minutes

    Illustration of two people with closed eyes softly singing into a microphone, featuring simple brushstroke style.

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    Language and linguistics

    Why Susan listens to recordings of herself speaking a language she no longer remembers

    5 minutes

    Illustration of a purple star with an eye and shield with padlock on blue background encircled by laurel and gold rings.

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    Ethics

    Plato saw little value in privacy. How do his ideas hold up in the information age?

    5 minutes

    Black and white photograph of a cloudy sky with swirling lines resembling bird flight patterns.

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    Biology

    Starlings swoosh like brushstrokes across the sky in this dazzling short

    3 minutes

    Black and white photo of two men using an early voice recording device, seated and holding speaking tubes.

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    Information and communication

    ‘Astonished and somewhat terrified’ – Victorians’ reactions to the phonograph

    36 minutes

    A man in a suit demonstrates with a series of blocks in a lab setting; photo.

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    Engineering

    From simple motors to levitating trains – how design shapes innovation

    23 minutes

    Colourful, whimsical house with ornate details and greenery in foreground, photo taken outdoors in daylight.

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    Home

    How an artist transformed a dilapidated hunting lodge into a house made of dreams

    8 minutes

    Photo of a giraffe seen through an arched doorway with brick and blue tiled walls in a zoo environment.

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    Animals and humans

    Are zoos and natural history museums born of a desire to understand, or to control?

    57 minutes