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Time Travellers from Essential Classics - bitesize pieces of interest and intrigue from history. Comedian Helen Arney remembers the amazing French revolutionary mathematician Sophie Germain, who had to pretend to be a man to get her ideas out there... For more Time Travellers and interview clips, visit http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b014r87y/clips For more on Essential Classics, visit http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b014r87y Music in this clip is: Bach - Prelude in D major Book 1 No. 5 Wanda Landowska (harpsichord) Bach (arr. Miki) - Prelude in D major Book 1 No. 5 Mie Miki (accordion) Bach (arr Ma/Thile/Meyer) - Fugue No. 20 A minor (Book 2) Yo-Yo Ma (cello) Chris Thile (mandolin) Edgar Meyer (double bass) Picture credit: Idil Sukan (Helen Arney - used with permission) and iStock (chalkboard)
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