Misha Glenny and guests discuss the ideas, people and events that have shaped our world.
Radio 4,·1103 episodes
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the poetry and context of this pre-Islamic Arabian knight
28 Feb 2019,·49 mins
A discussion of the chemicals that animals use in order to affect others of their species.
21 Feb 2019,·49 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how this Bible story has inspired artists for centuries.
14 Feb 2019,·49 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the scientific study of life, originated by Aristotle.
07 Feb 2019,·50 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the fight for Welsh independence in the early 15th century
31 Jan 2019,·48 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas of one of the great 20th-century mathematicians.
24 Jan 2019,·48 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the playwright and novelist, author of Waiting for Godot
17 Jan 2019,·48 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the idea that Popes cannot err in exercise of their office
10 Jan 2019,·51 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the planet closest to Earth, sometimes called Earth's twin
27 Dec 2018,·50 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Poor Law of 1834 and the rise of the workhouse
20 Dec 2018,·50 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the greatest poems from medieval England
13 Dec 2018,·51 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the devastating war across the Holy Roman Empire 1618-1648
06 Dec 2018,·50 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Red Army's retreat across China, from October 1934
29 Nov 2018,·50 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the philosophy of hope - a weakness or a strength?
22 Nov 2018,·53 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Roman poet Horace, who flourished under Augustus.
15 Nov 2018,·48 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Austrian princess, guillotined as Queen of France.
08 Nov 2018,·49 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the molecules linked to cell functioning and ageing
01 Nov 2018,·42 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Mandeville's work on the public benefit of private vices.
25 Oct 2018,·42 mins
Melvyn Bragg discusses the impact of Shakespeare's approach to history (programme 2 of 2).
18 Oct 2018,·42 mins
Melvyn Bragg discusses the impact of Shakespeare's approach to history (programme 1 of 2)
11 Oct 2018,·51 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Wharton's novels of America's Gilded Age.
04 Oct 2018,·49 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the German theologian, killed for plotting against Hitler
27 Sep 2018,·49 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of machines imitating living beings.
20 Sep 2018,·52 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the epic poem on the wrath of Achilles in the Trojan War.
13 Sep 2018,·48 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a great cultural figure of the 19th century.
05 Jul 2018,·53 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1846-48 war that cost Mexico half its territory.
28 Jun 2018,·49 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how some animals sense their world with sound not sight.
21 Jun 2018,·51 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss republicanism, despotism and the separation of powers.
14 Jun 2018,·49 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Achaemenid Empire's great ceremonial capital.
07 Jun 2018,·51 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the playwright and his tragedies of middle-class life.
31 May 2018,·49 mins
