Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas, people and events that have shaped our world.
The Evolution of Crocodiles (Summer Repeat)
Sept. 28, 2023
52:56
The Valladolid Debate (Summer Repeat)
Sept. 21, 2023
52:55
Colette (Summer Repeat)
Sept. 14, 2023
51:26
The Iliad (Summer Repeat)
Sept. 7, 2023
48:15
Jupiter
July 27, 2023
53:10
Elizabeth Anscombe
July 20, 2023
54:45
Death in Venice
July 13, 2023
48:37
Oedipus Rex
July 6, 2023
54:53
Mitochondria
June 29, 2023
52:29
Louis XIV: The Sun King
June 22, 2023
47:25
Virgil's Georgics
June 15, 2023
49:18
The Shimabara Rebellion
June 8, 2023
48:03
The Dead Sea Scrolls
June 1, 2023
48:07
Walt Whitman
May 25, 2023
49:38
Linnaeus
May 18, 2023
50:19
The Battle of Crécy
May 11, 2023
50:49
Cnut
May 4, 2023
51:10
A Room of One's Own
April 27, 2023
54:48
Solon the Lawgiver
April 20, 2023
51:20
Mercantilism
April 13, 2023
57:33
The Ramayana
April 6, 2023
49:35
Megaliths
March 30, 2023
50:26
Paul Erdős
March 23, 2023
51:09
Stevie Smith
March 16, 2023
53:19
Chartism
March 9, 2023
51:01
Tycho Brahe
March 2, 2023
53:35
Superconductivity
Feb. 23, 2023
50:44
Rawls' Theory of Justice
Feb. 16, 2023
60:39
John Donne
Feb. 9, 2023
51:47
The Great Stink
Jan. 26, 2023
50:12
Persuasion
Jan. 19, 2023
Citizen Kane
Jan. 12, 2023
53:43
The Irish Rebellion of 1798
Jan. 5, 2023
55:25
The Nibelungenlied
Dec. 29, 2022
54:49
The Challenger Expedition 1872-1876
Dec. 22, 2022
51:14
Demosthenes' Philippics
Dec. 15, 2022
56:56
Bauhaus
Dec. 8, 2022
56:45
The Morant Bay Rebellion
Dec. 1, 2022
53:42
Wilfred Owen
Nov. 24, 2022
56:39
The Fish-Tetrapod Transition
Nov. 17, 2022
55:33
Berthe Morisot
Nov. 10, 2022
60:20
The Knights Templar
Nov. 3, 2022
49:59
The Electron
Oct. 27, 2022
49:47
Plato's Atlantis
Oct. 20, 2022
54:15
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Oct. 13, 2022
52:33
John Bull
July 28, 2022
53:46
Angkor Wat
July 21, 2022
Dylan Thomas
July 14, 2022
50:06
The Death of Stars
July 7, 2022
58:09
Hegel's Philosophy of History
June 23, 2022
52:25
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