I'm Rory Stewart and I want to talk about ignorance. I will die without having read

everything that was written in classical Latin. Because ignorance isn't simply the opposite of knowledge.

It's part of what it means to be human.

Just about every game I can think of involves ignorance.

There's no adventure without ignorance. There's no there's no narrative.

The long history of ignorance from Confucius to Kianan

with me Rory Stewart,

listen on BBC Sounds.

BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.

Hello, I'm Robin Ints, and I'm Brancox.

And this is Roll Dahl's The Infinite Monkey Cage. Not merely because today's show is recorded

inside a giant peach, but because this is the unexpected history of science.

Of course by giant peach, Robin means the Royal Society.

It's a very common mistake.

Many of you will know that Isaac Newton very often used to see himself

as merely the pip with inside a large fleshy fruit.

Robin means the Royal Society. The world's oldest scientific society.

Established in 1660, the Society is counted in 1660, the Society is counted, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Michael Faraday, Dorothy Hodgkin,

Stephen Hawking, Justin Bell Bernell and Brian Cox amongst its many fellows.

I didn't write this.

Now that's not true, Not only yes he did write that. My only

change was I said why don't we add some other names as well as yours Brian? I think my name will really make the point. Anyway, so... Well today we're

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