Salisbury Cathedral's spire can be seen from miles around.

But to discover what keeps it standing, you need to go behind the scenes.

Join us on the Stone Masonry Works Yard tour.

Learn how skilled stone masons can serve and restore this remarkable building.

With modern-day know-how and traditional techniques. Tickets are 22 pounds and include

admission to the Cathedral and Magna Carta. Book now at Salisbury Cathedral.org.

What happens now that we have a drug that can make you swiftly shed 20% of your body weight?

I'm Johan Hari and I spent a year taking the new weight loss

drugs and travelling all over the world to interview experts on their extraordinary benefits and

disturbing risks. Discover how these new drugs are poised to change the world for better and for

worse in my new book, Magic Pill.

Out now in all good bookshops and in audiobook.

They called themselves kings of the world.

In fact, they called themselves rulers of the universe.

They were the lords of Assyria.

You're listening to Dan Snow's history, and this is the story of the first empire,

an empire of enormous geographical extent.

An empire of provinces, of bureaucracy, of monumental buildings, massive armies.

The origins of the Assyrian Empire are a little bit complicated. It began with a city, as you'll hear. But that city

morphed and changed, partly through internal pressure, partly because of disasters and

external catastrophes and opportunities. But about 1700 BC or so,

a new royal dynasty sees control.

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