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World Service,18 Nov 1997,28 mins

Prof. Roy Porter and a history of disease

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Professor Roy Porter talks about his new medical history book. Also in the programme Jane Gardham's Girl with the Golden Ears poses some questions, the American writer Jim Dodge and his expanding duck plus a major history of Europe. Presenter: Harriett Gilbert.

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