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Essential Classics Clips

1. The pressures of young musicianship

   Duration: 02:50

2. 'Be like a Viking and crush the patriarchy'

   Duration: 02:35

3. History’s most amazing ‘talking dogs’

   Duration: 02:40

4. The genius of the Laurel and Hardy theme tune

   Duration: 03:53

5. Did Mae West really have a liaison with Ho Chi Minh?

   Duration: 02:31

6. How the simple snowflake revealed its beauty to science

   Duration: 03:13

7. Prue Leith: ‘I used a teddy bear to practise killing lobsters’

   Duration: 02:06

8. The surprisingly sexist history of artificial intelligence

   Duration: 01:45

9. Royal Ballet's Steven McRae on dance idol Gene Kelly

   Duration: 04:19

10. The man with no hands, who made models inside bottles

    Duration: 02:20

11. Suffragettes on roller skates

    Duration: 02:05

12. Is this the most personal political letter ever sent?

    Duration: 01:45

13. Step inside a suffragette’s prison cell

    Duration: 02:54

14. The man who tried to transmit electricity wirelessly

    Duration: 02:52

15. The mysterious roots of fairy tales

    Duration: 02:46

16. 'One Day' author: My failure as an actor allowed me to commit to writing

    Duration: 03:58

17. Brian Blessed: Space Explorer

    Duration: 01:27

18. In celebration of the humble bus stop

    Duration: 01:59

19. Forget Santa: meet Iceland's Yule Lads

    Duration: 01:49

20. What happens when The Thames freezes over?

    Duration: 02:23

21. I’m not a Brontë but this is my territory - Jacqueline Wilson on Jane Eyre

    Duration: 02:26

22. Vladimir Jurowski: discovering Buddhism after growing up in secular Russia

    Duration: 03:02

23. Armando Iannucci - reacting against Bowie led me to Mahler

    Duration: 03:50

24. The magic of the Moscow Metro

    Duration: 03:09