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Are you looking for your 'other half'?

Ever since that day human beings have been yearning for their other halves, the bit that鈥檚 missing. In Plato鈥檚 dialogue The Symposium, Aristophanes presented a light-hearted creation myth that explains it all.

Narrated by Aidan Turner. Scripted by Nigel Warburton

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