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The California Gold Rush
In Our Time
Radio 4 Arts and Discussion Programs to Download for Free
In the seventh and eighth centuries women were in very short supply. We haven't had social capital. And they also had economic capital because written into that constitution with all its faults was the right to own property, which was extraordinary at that time. I think it's nice too that the gold rush hasn't finished as apparently after the crash of 2008, people went back up into the San Gabriel hills above Los Angeles - there's still gold up there. There are many more Radio 4 Arts and Discussion programs to download for free. Find these on the website at bbc.co.uk slash Radio 4.
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