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Ren Power List - Game Changers Edition 3 Wed, 9 Apr 14 The Woman's Hour Power List 2014 - Game Changers was finally revealed. Hear Emma Barnett, Jenni Murray, Jane Garvey and our number one Game Changer reflect on the top ten, exclusively on this pod
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Welcome Mon, 11 Jan 10 Welcome to this new BBC podcast. If you subscribe to the podcast feed, you should receive the first episode of this series automatically within the next seven days. To find other podcasts from the BBC, visit www.bbc.co.uk/podca
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001 Mummy of Hornedjitef 18 Jan 10 Mon, 18 Jan 10 This ornate Egyptian coffin holds secrets to the understanding of their priests' religion, Egyptian society and its connections to the rest of the world. At the age of eight, Neil MacGregor visited th
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002 Olduvai Stone Chopping Tool 19 Jan 2010 Tue, 19 Jan 10 A simple chipped stone from the Rift Valley in Tanzania marks the emergence of modern humans. Faced with the needs to cut meat from carcasses, early humans in Africa discovered how to shape s
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003 Olduvai Handaxe 20 Jan 2010 Wed, 20 Jan 10 As early humans slowly began to move beyond their African homeland, they took with them one essential item - a handaxe. It is the most widely-used tool humans have created. Neil MacGregor, Director of th
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004 Swimming Reindeer 21 Jan 2010 Thu, 21 Jan 10 Found in France and dating back 13,000 years, this is a carving of two swimming reindeer. The creator of this carving was one of the first humans to express their world through art. But why did they do
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005 Clovis Spear Point 22 Jan 2010 Fri, 22 Jan 10 This sharp spearhead helps us understand how humans spread across the globe. By 11,000 BC humans had moved from north-east Asia into the uninhabited wilderness of north America. Within 2,000 years the
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006 Bird-shaped Pestle 25 Jan 10 Mon, 25 Jan 10 At the end of the Ice Age, one of the most important parts of human existence was finding enough food to survive. Taking a pestle from Papua New Guinea as an example, Neil MacGregor, Director of the Bri
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007 Ain Sakhri Lovers Figurine 26 Jan 10 Tue, 26 Jan 10 A palm-sized stone sculpture made in Northern Israel 12,000 years ago clearly shows a couple entwined in the act of love. Sculptor Marc Quinn responds to the stone as art, and archaeologist Dr I
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008 Egyptian Clay Model of Cattle 27 Jan 10 Wed, 27 Jan 10 Four frail-looking cows were made from Nile mud in Egypt 5,500 years ago, long before the time of the pyramids or the pharaohs. They show the major changes that early man was undergoing at th
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009 Maya Maize God Statue 28 Jan 10 Thu, 28 Jan 10 This stone Maize God was discovered on the site of a major Mayan city in present-day Honduras and is wearing a headdress in the shape of a giant corn cob. Maize was not only worshipped at that time b
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010 Jomon Pot 29 Jan 10 Fri, 29 Jan 10 A 7,000-year-old Japanese clay pot has managed to remain almost perfectly intact. Pots began in Japan around 17,000 years ago and by the time this pot was made had achieved a remarkable sophistication. This simp
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011 King Den's Sandal Label 1 Feb 2010 Mon, 1 Feb 10 A small label, made from hippopotamus ivory and attached to the sandals of one of the earliest known kings of Egypt. Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum, looks at what this label, with i
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012 Standard of Ur 2 Feb 2010 Tue, 2 Feb 10 A set of mosaic scenes, mounted on a single box, show powerful images of battle and regal life. The Standard of Ur was found nearly 100 years ago at a royal burial site in the city of Ur, in southern Iraq,
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013 Indus seal 3 Feb 2010 Wed, 3 Feb 10 The ancient city of Harappa lies around 150 miles north of Lahore, in Pakistan. It was once one of the great centres of a civilisation with vast trade connections, which built over 100 cities, some with sophist
