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The Big Bang

How did the universe begin? It鈥檚 tempting to believe that it didn鈥檛, that there was always something, rather than nothing. Cosmologists used to believe this so-called Steady State theory of the universe, but hardly any do now as increasingly the evidence is pointing against that.

Narrated by Gillian Anderson. Scripted by Nigel Warburton.

Published as part of History of Ideas, Radio 4.

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