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RN Summer School is a six day course without exams, assignments or boring bits. Over six brainy fun episodes you’ll get to the bottom of some of the curious mysteries of human progress from the origin of manners to the birth of the novel.
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We're ditching the classroom and heading out to the park to learn all about dogs... what else could you want to finish off Summer School?
When was the first novel written? And more importantly... what was the first novel? Our hosts attempt to find out, and it's a lot trickier than you'd think.
Quiet down, sit up straight, elbows off tables and listen up because Mark and Zoe are taking us from summer school to finishing school to learn some manners.
Shhhh.... This is a library! So please be quiet and listen up as hosts Mark and Zoe takes us through the history of libraries, from the very first up until the library in the modern day.
How much do you know about Confucius? There's a lot more there behind this Chinese philosopher than your average Confucius Say... joke.
We're ditching the classroom and heading out to the park to learn all about dogs... what else could you want to finish off Summer School?
Shhhh.... This is a library! So please be quiet and listen up as hosts Mark and Zoe takes us through the history of libraries, from the very first up until the library in the modern day.
Quiet down, sit up straight, elbows off tables and listen up because Mark and Zoe are taking us from Summer School to Finishing School to learn all about manners.
We all learned geometry at school, but how much do we remember? And who were the geniuses who first laid down the rules of this complex, but often very beautiful, area of mathematics?
When was the first novel written? And more importantly... what was the first novel? Our hosts attempt to find out, and it's a lot trickier than you'd think.
How much do you know about Confucius? There's a lot more there behind this Chinese philosopher than your average Confucius Say... joke.
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