<p>New Reasonings. From hopeless efforts to agree on a location for zero degrees longitude to a failure to support the discovery of X-rays, humanity is careering towards global war at the end of the end of the 19th Century...and it's little wonder.   </p>

New Reasonings. From hopeless efforts to agree on a location for zero degrees longitude to a failure to support the discovery of X-rays, humanity is careering towards global war at the end of the end of the 19th Century...and it's little wonder.

A Brief History of Failure. Episode 6

<p>The things we take for granted in today's world are typically the result of one lucky break, one person’s point of clarity that managed to rise above the efforts of others. However, it is those who have fallen at the last hurdle, via back luck or ignorance, which A Brief History of Failure celebrates. And this group is legion. From the earliest days of civilisation to the political turmoil of modern politics, this podcast shines a light on those who fall into the classification of losers. Research on the world's silver and bronze medalists has been painstakingly conducted to produce this definitive, groundbreaking broadcast. </p>

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The things we take for granted in today's world are typically the result of one lucky break, one person’s point of clarity that managed to rise above the efforts of others. However, it is those who have fallen at the last hurdle, via back luck or ignorance, which A Brief History of Failure celebrates. And this group is legion. From the earliest days of civilisation to the political turmoil of modern politics, this podcast shines a light on those who fall into the classification of losers. Research on the world's silver and bronze medalists has been painstakingly conducted to produce this definitive, groundbreaking broadcast.

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A Brief History of Failure. Episode 6

A Brief History of Failure. Episode 6