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RADIO: Why listen to Zoroaster when you can listen to your mum?
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Well, I suppose we can all drop the ball from time to time, and I
have given Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time (Radio 4) a very easy ride over
the years - but I am delighted to say that even the best programmes
can cock up. In Our Time is about the historical significance of
ideas - but this time the week's topic was Zoroastrianism. Fair
enough - they do all kinds of arcane stuff, and the big joke about
the show is its title - there is a silent "absolutely not" in front
of it.
But the proble...
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